IJA and SJN Announce Newsrooms Selected for 2024-25 Health Equity Initiative Cohort
The Indigenous Journalists Association and Solutions Journalism Network are excited to announce the newsrooms selected for 2024-25 Health Equity Initiative cohort. Four newsrooms and one collaborative are participating in the program: Cherokee Phoenix, Four Points Press, Sho-Ban News, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate and a collaborative including Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, Native Public Media and the Mountain West News Bureau. Over the course of a year, the newsrooms will gain a deep understanding of solutions journalism and use these skills to produce meaningful health coverage for and with their communities.
"We understand our audience is not just a customer picking a paper to read, but rather our family and friends who have been facing the same issues that have been affecting our people for decades," said Tyler Thomas, executive editor at the Cherokee Phoenix.
"We’re examining how our tribe’s efforts to create better access to clean water is helping our citizens and their health. We’re exploring the success of the Cherokee Nation’s harm reduction program and investigating how the tribe’s new health care provider recruitment and retention strategies are helping to close our gaps in care."
