Reznet is a Native American news, information and entertainment Web site that also trains and mentors American Indian college students around the country as they prepare for journalism careers.
Now in its seventh year and a project of The University of Montana School of Journalism, reznet is funded by four foundations: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the McCormick Foundation and the Gannett Foundation. The intent of reznet's training and mentoring program is to produce more Native American professional journalists.
PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH
To obtain republishing rights for original reznet articles, photos and videos, please call 406-243-2191 or e-mail reznet.
All professionally written features are available through syndication only. Please e-mail reznet to purchase republishing rights for "Red Clout," "Without Reservations," "Native Moms," "Dear Crabby," "The Real All-Americans" and "On the Native Beat."
To republish student-produced content, we require that a donation be made to reznet as a gesture of support for our Native American student journalists and our efforts to train them to become professional journalists. Donations will vary in amount, typically $50 to $100, depending on the size and frequency of the requesting publication. Please e-mail reznet for details.
All re-published reznet content must have the reznet URL (reznetnews.org) added to the story. If the story is republished on a Web site, the reznet URL must link back to the reznet home page. Stories must have the following sentence added to the end of the article: This story originally was published by reznet (reznetnews.org) and is used with permission.
THE REZNET TEAM
Denny McAuliffe, Osage, is reznet's project director and founder. Steve Chin is managing editor and developer of the Web site. Bill Elsen is career development director, and Shannon Shaw and Joe Grimm are reznet assignment editors. Victor Merina is reznet's senior correspondent and special projects editor.
McAuliffe and Elsen are former editors at The Washington Post, where Elsen also was director of recruiting and hiring. Chin, a former reporter at the San Francisco Examiner, also directs MKmedia, which has helped non-profit organizations such as the Native American Journalists Association and the Asian American Journalists Association build, maintain and evolve their Web sites. Shaw is Osage and a former reporter at the Santa Fe New Mexican; she is the communications coordinator of the Osage Nation and writes for the Osage News tribal newspaper. Grimm was a copy editor and the recruiting and development editor of the Detroit Free Press before taking a buyout in 2008; he also teaches journalism at Michigan State University and writes the "Ask the Recruiter" blog on the Poynter Web site. Merina is a former Los Angeles Times investigative reporter and finalist for the Pulitizer Prize. He also is a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism and visiting faculty member at The Poynter Institute, where he leads seminars on cross-cultural reporting and writing about race.
In 2008, Reznet was a finalist for two Online Journalism Awards by the Online News Association: Specialty Site Journalism and Online Topical Reporting for coverage of political issues in the presidential campaign. Reznet was one of two national finalists in the Society of Professional Journalists' 2005 Mark of Excellence awards as Best All-Around Independent Online Student Publication. In 2003, it won the Native American Journalists Association's Native Media Award for Best Internet News Site.
Twenty “Reznetters” are on staff as contributors. They attend 15 colleges in 11 states and are members of 15 tribes in nine states. With few exceptions, reznet's student staff members are graduates of the Freedom Forum's American Indian Journalism Institute, an intensive three-week training and internship program each June at the University of South Dakota.
Reznet students have interned at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, The Associated Press, The Denver Post, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Seattle Times and numerous other newspapers.
Reznet graduates work as professional reporters, photographers and copy editors at newspapers including The Washington Post, The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, the Tulsa World, The Post-Standard in Syracuse, N.Y., the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, The Forum in Fargo, N.D., Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune, Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune, the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, S.D., The Navajo Times and the Cherokee Phoenix.
If you'd like more information about working for reznet, donating to reznet or advertising on reznet, or permission to republish a reznet story, photo or video, please call 406-243-2191 or e-mail reznet. Reznet's mailing address is:
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