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Election policy for Osage News staff and Editorial Board ensure unbiased coverage

Shannon Shaw Duty
Written by Shannon Shaw Duty
✉ sshaw@osagenation-nsn.gov
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The Osage News staff and Editorial Board have enacted policies and procedures to ensure ethical, fair and accurate news coverage during Osage Nation elections for its readers.

The News staff and board are not allowed to attend, cover, post updates, post fliers or photos about Osage Nation candidate announcement dinners or meet and greets on any Osage News social media or any personal social media.

The Editorial Board is a three-person board that oversees the operations of the News and its editor. The board members are Jerri Jean Branstetter (chair), Teresa Trumbly Lamsam (vice chair) and Lu King.

The News staff and board, if related to a candidate, must recuse themselves from news coverage during the election. This rule applies in the instance of first and second-degree relatives. Thomas Trumbly, who filed his candidacy on March 12, is the brother of Lamsam. Lamsam will recuse herself from any issues related to Congressional Election coverage.

Congressional Speaker Angela Pratt filed her candidacy for re-election on Feb. 6 and is the niece of Branstetter. Branstetter will recuse herself from any issues related to Congressional Election coverage.

The News staff and board cannot fraternize or join in with ON candidates on Election Day at their camps. The News staff and board can only visit camps for newsgathering purposes.

The Osage News election policy and procedures have been in place since 2013. For more information or questions, please contact Osage News Editor Shannon Shaw Duty at sshaw@osagenation-nsn.gov.

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Original Publish Date: 2018-03-15 00:00:00

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Shannon Shaw Duty
Shannon Shaw Dutyhttps://osagenews.org

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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