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S moke S ignals
AUGUST 1, 2018
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From left, Grand Ronde Editorial Board Vice Chair Monty Herron,
Smoke Signals Editor Dean Rhodes, Editorial Board Secretary Mia
Prickett and Tribal Council Vice Chair Chris Mercier show off five of
the six awards won by Smoke Signals in the 2018 Native American
Journalists Association media awards competition. The awards were
distributed during a banquet held at the Intercontinental Hotel in
Miami, Fla., on Saturday, July 21. Smoke Signals received six awards
in the contest, but the third-place award for newspaper design was
inadvertently not made and will be forwarded to Smoke Signals in the
near future. Mercier is a former employee of the Tribal newspaper.
Grand Ronde Editorial Board Vice Chair Monty Herron, left, and
Secretary Mia Prickett pose with Los Angeles-based NBC News
national correspondent Miguel Almaguer during the Native American
Journalists Association conference held Thursday, July 19, through
Saturday, July 21, in Miami, Fla.
Free Playgroup in
Grand Ronde!
*
When: First Thursday of each
month 10:00 am-11:30 am
Where: CTGR – Community
Service Center 9615 Grand Ronde
Road Grand Ronde, OR 97347
Who: Parents and caregivers of
children under 5 years.
Why: Come to play, have a snack
and have fun!
Smoke Signals wins ONPA award
Smoke Signals staff report
Smoke Signals remained the only
Tribal newspaper to win an award
in the annual Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association Associate
Member contest.
Smoke Signals received a sec-
ond-place award in feature writing
for staff writer Danielle Frost’s
story about Grand Ronde Police
Chief Jake McKnight’s grueling
stay at the FBI training facility in
Quantico, Va., that appeared in the
Oct. 15, 2017, edition.
The award is the 26th time that
Smoke Signals has been honored
by the statewide journalism asso-
ciation in the last 10 years.
ONPA awards were announced
during the July 19-20 convention
held at Brasada Ranch near Bend.
Smoke Signals also won six
awards in the annual Native Amer-
ican Journalists Association Media
Awards contest for work published
in 2017. The awards were handed
out Saturday, July 21, during an
awards banquet held at the Inter-
continental Hotel in Miami, Fla.
Frost’s story about Tribal mem-
ber Heather Cameron Haller, who
has been missing for five years and
is likely a victim of violence against
Native American women, garnered
a first-place award for Best Cover-
age of Native America.
Frost’s award marks the second
year in a row that Smoke Signals
has won the first-place award in the
Best Coverage of Native America
category.
Smoke Signals photojournal-
ist Michelle Alaimo won two sec-
ond-place awards: one in News and
one in Features. Her photo of the
Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse
that occurred over Grand Ronde was
honored in the News Photo catego-
ry while her photograph of Tribal
youth on spring break was honored
in the Features Photo category.
Editor Dean Rhodes was honored
with a second-place award in News
Writing for his story about the Aug.
21 total solar eclipse and a third-
place award in Feature Writing for
his story about a book that recount-
ed Louis Kenoyer being the last
speaker of the Northern Kalapuya
language.
Tribal member Justin Phillips
received a third-place award for
designing the newspaper.
During the conference, Tribal
Council Vice Chair Chris Mercier
and Editorial Board Secretary Mia
Prickett participated in a “Transi-
tioning to an Independent Tribal
Press” panel discussion that was
moderated by Rhodes and included
staff members from the Muscogee
Creek Nation’s Mvskoke Media.
Editorial Board Vice Chair Monty
Herron also attended the confer-
ence, which ran from Thursday,
July 19, through Saturday, July 21.
During the conference, veteran
Tribal journalist and Indian Coun-
try Today Editor Mark Trahant
(Shoshone-Bannock) received the
Richard LaCourse Award and was
the featured speaker.
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