Indigenous Journalism with a Capital ’I’ and Graham Lee Brewer

Graham Lee Brewer, "a reporter covering criminal justice, the death penalty, and Indian Country," grew up listening to National Public Radio in the back of his parents' car. Today he's a working journalist in Oklahoma with a distinguished resume that blends experience on the radio and in the traditional print headquarters of the Oklahoman, among many other highlights. Brewer, also a board member of the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA), currently is contributing editor on the tribal affairs desk of High Country News, a nonprofit news org dedicated to covering the American West. Brewer spends some of his time helping to train other newsrooms nationwide in the ethics of covering Indigenous peoples. Our conversation includes Brewer's work with NAJA, his own Cherokee roots (as the Cherokee Nation currently campaigns to add its own representative to the U.S. House, based on an 1835 treaty), his chronicling of the executions of death-row inmates, and many other journalism topics. Thanks for listening and for spending a little time getting to know another working journalist.