After three years, the Osage News is saying “Goodbye for now” to our friend and colleague, Cody Hammer. He has accepted a position with Cherokee Nation’s OsiyoTV as a camera operator. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors and know he will be successful.
Hammer, 32, is of Cherokee and Creek descent. Self-taught, we have watched him grow as a photographer into a videographer while at the Osage News. His coverage of the upcoming film, “Killers of the Flower Moon” has been published by multiple U.S. and international publications.
Born in Tahlequah but mostly raised in Westville, Oklahoma and Fayetteville, Arkansas, he first gained employment with the Osage Nation in 2015 at the ON Boys & Girls Club where he was a favorite with the kids and staff. After the Boys & Girls Club was closed, he began working for ON Communications. He joined the Osage News staff in February of 2019.
He is married to Mary (Ramirez) Hammer, Osage, and they are parents to four daughters.
We will miss Cody’s beautiful photography, his kindness and professionalism. Please join us in saying Thank You for his years of hard work at the Osage News and service to the Osage people. You can follow him on Instagram @_codyhammer_ and Facebook at Cody Hammer Photography. #OsageNews #NAJA #OKSPJ
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Title: Editor
Email: sshaw20@gmail.com
Twitter: @dutyshaw
Topic Expertise: Columnist, Culture, Community
Languages spoken: English, Osage (intermediate), Spanish (beginner)
Shannon Shaw Duty, Osage from the Grayhorse District, is the editor of the award-winning Osage News, the official independent media of the Osage Nation. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a master’s degree in Legal Studies with an emphasis in Indigenous Peoples Law. She currently sits on the Freedom of Information Committee for the Society of Professional Journalists. She has served as a board member for LION Publishers, as Vice President for the Pawhuska Public Schools Board of Education, on the Board of Directors for the Native American Journalists Association (now Indigenous Journalists Association) and served as a board member and Chairwoman for the Pawhuska Johnson O’Malley Parent Committee. She is a Chips Quinn Scholar, a former instructor for the Freedom Forum’s Native American Journalism Career Conference and the Freedom Forum’s American Indian Journalism Institute. She is a former reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican. She is a 2012 recipient of the Native American 40 Under 40 from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. In 2014 she helped lead the Osage News to receive NAJA's Elias Boudinot Free Press Award. The Osage News won Best Newspaper from the SPJ-Oklahoma Chapter in their division 2018-2022. Her award-winning work has been published in Indian Country Today, The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity, NPR, the Associated Press, Tulsa World and others. She currently resides in Pawhuska, Okla., with her husband and together they share six children, two dogs and two cats.
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