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Meet the ICT Team

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ICT History

What began more than 40 years ago as a weekly newspaper by the late Tim Giago, Lakota Times is now ICT, a multimedia news organization. ICT, formerly Indian Country Today, is a division of IndiJ Public Media, a national 501 (c)(3) public charity, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. 

In an effort to reach Indigenous populations that receive little to no journalistic coverage, ICT strives for Multimedia Excellence through Compelling Storytelling while empowering the Next Generation of Indigenous journalists. ICT disseminates news stories through free, accessible, digital and broadcast channels, providing millions of people with news about Indigenous communities – amplified by our social media presence.

We provide a spacious channel for information, serving Indigenous audiences with newsworthy stories about ourselves and the world. We deliver trustworthy, informed, and compelling Indigenous narratives, amplifying Indigenous voices to reach audiences far and wide. More expansively, our reporting helps to better educate broader audiences about Indigenous peoples and our issues. We’re also dedicated to fostering talent and expanding opportunities for the Indigenous community, particularly by ensuring a clear career path for our youth.

Through this approach, we honor our ancestors and future generations through stories that make Indigenous peoples come alive.

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Republication Guidelines

Our mission and policy at ICT is that our content is free for republication (ICT byline, photos, or video). ICT believes in being a public service. Unless otherwise noted, ICT stories are free to republish through a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Simply click the “Republish” button on the story you’d like to republish and follow these additional rules:

Republishing Guidelines

• You must give ICT credit, so please include a byline using the following format:
  • [Firstname] [Lastname], ICT.
    • Example: Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT
• Include this notation at the top of the story (or at the bottom) with an embedded link to the original story on the ICT website: This story was originally published by ICT.
• Add a link to the overall ICT website in the byline
• Stories may be edited for in-house style. Any edits to content other than style changes must be approved by ICT before publishing. More substantial changes should be noted as additional and conducted by your publication. Email: dianna@ictnews.org and managingeditor@ictnews.org 
• You can publish any photos that are credited to ICT with the stories that they originally appeared in. For any other uses, you must seek permission from us at managingeditor@ictnews.org . 
• At the end of the story, include the following company bio: 

“ICT is an independent, nonprofit multimedia news organization covering Indigenous issues and communities. We are supported by foundations, donor contributions, and corporate sponsorships. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Bluesky.”

Content should not be published behind a paywall out of respect for ICT’s mission to ensure that its content is free for the public good. 

If you share the story on social media, please mention @indiancountrytoday on Facebook and Instagram. 

Don’t sell the story.

Don’t sell ads against the story. Feel free, however, to publish it on a page with ads you’ve already sold. 

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Editorial Independence Policy

ICT is committed to being transparent in the financial support it receives while also ensuring it maintains its editorial independence as a news organization.

IndiJ Public Media, the parent company of ICT, is a nonprofit, public charity with 501(c)(3) status. IndiJ Public Media operates as a public trust, we do not pay certain taxes. We may receive funds from standard government programs offered to nonprofits or similar businesses.

We subscribe to standards of editorial independence adopted by the Institute for Nonprofit News, and add “tribes” to the sources from which we accept gifts, grants and sponsorships:

Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and business interests of our organization. We maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and sources of all revenue. Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions.

We accept gifts, grants and sponsorships from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.

Our organization may consider donations to support the coverage of particular topics, but our organization maintains editorial control of the coverage. We will cede no right of review or influence of editorial content, nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.

Our organization will make public all donors who give a total of $5,000 or more per year. We will accept anonymous donations for general support only if it is clear that sufficient safeguards have been put into place that the expenditure of that donation is made independently by our organization and in compliance with INN’s Membership Standards.

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