Ep.55 | ICT's Katie Oyan

For episode 55 we're back in our Mesa studio with Katie Oyan, President and CEO of IndiJ Public Media, the parent company of Indian Country Today. Katie shares her story of growing up in rural South Dakota to becoming an editor at one of for foremost media brands in the world - the Associated Press. She has now been CEO of IndiJ for about a year, where her job is telling the story of Indian Country. 

Katie discusses the current and future state of media, its various business models, and her impressions of her first time at RES. Plus she shares an awesome story about arranging for Indigenous journalists to ask Nicole Mann, the first female Native American astronaut, questions while she circled the Earth from space.

We hope you enjoy this episode, and stay tuned for more. On a sad note, this was the last episode recorded by our longtime producer, Mikaela Garcia. Mikaela was instrumental in the creation and success of the Native Edge. We will miss her and wish her well in her new endeavors.

Katie Oyan |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-oyan-a78007141/

IndiJ Public Media |
https://indijpublicmedia.org/