Koahnic Broadcast Corporation and its subsidiaries, such as KNBA, National Native News and Indigefi, recently won several national awards. The Native American Journalist Association recently announced the list of winners for its 2019 awards.
Alexis Sallee won two awards for Indigefi’s Definition of Resilience projects.
National Native News host Antonia Gonzales won three individual awards. One award was for Gonzales’s Alaska’s Native Voice coverage during the Alaska Federation of Natives annual convention in Anchorage in 2019. She also won two awards for best television news stories, winning a first and second place in the category.
Gonzales also won a shared award with Sarah Gustavus for the project “New Mexico in Focus” on traditional foods.
The team of Tara Gatewood, Monica Braine and Andi Murphy won two awards for two “Native American Calling” shows.
Toasted Sister Podcast producer Andi Murphy won a first place award
KNBA News and public affairs producer Tripp Crouse won two first place finishes for news and feature stories. One of the awards was for a story that Crouse produced and published while working for KTOO Public Media in Juneau, prior to being hired by KNBA.
The awards will be handed out during the annual NAJA conference in September.
Crouse also won a first place for feature audio awarded by the Society for Professional Journalists during its celebrating of Northwest Excellence in Journalism. The awards event has entries from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.
Crouse also recently was selected to participate in a fellowship with the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. Crouse will attend the Bristol Bay Institute, a fellowship in late August-early September that will bring 10-12 competitively selected professional journalists from around North America to Bristol Bay to learn first-hand about the various natural resource issues playing out in the region.
