Jourdan Bennett-Begaye is the managing editor of ICT, formerly Indian Country Today. She previously served as the executive editor, the first woman to be the chief news executive and top editor of the 44-year-old newspaper. She is a Diné citizen of the Navajo Nation. She serves on Indigenous Journalists Association board of directors.

Since her hire with ICT in 2018, Jourdan has reported stories on health, education, public health, entertainment, space, 2020 Census, policy, politics, COVID-19 data, and more. She received her master’s degree in magazine, newspaper and online journalism through the Newhouse Minorities Fellowship at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She also completed the American Indian Journalism Institute via the Freedom Forum in 2011.

She has won multiple awards for her COVID-19 data beat reporting, including IJA’s Richard LaCourse Award with the Indigenous Investigative Collective for COVID-19 deaths in Indian Country in 2022. The story sprung from her COVID-19 database that started before the Indian Health Service and Centers for Disease Prevention and Control databases. Johns Hopkins University continued the database through a partnership.

Jourdan has talked about coverage of Indigenous peoples, nations and issues with the Associated Press, NPR, PBS Newshour, and more.

In her off time she loves to go dancing (a lot), be in or near the ocean, and spend time with family and friends.