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A note from the editorial board

I am pleased to be writing on behalf of the Osage Nation Editorial Board to announce that the board has appointed Shannon Shaw Editor of the Osage News. This was a decision we reached after a thorough search process that began in March. We appreciate all of the comments and concerns that Osages have expressed about both this position and the direction of the Osage News. The board also wants to thank the staff of the Osage News for their work through this election season.

Robert Warrior
Chair, Osage Nation Editorial Board

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Osage News

The Osage Nation Editorial Board has hired Shannon Shaw as the full-time editor of the Osage News.

Shaw, who has been interim editor of the tribe’s newspaper since 2009, was unanimously selected by the Editorial Board during a June 16 teleconference meeting. Osages who sit on the three-person Editorial Board are Robert Warrior, Denny McAuliffe and Teresa Trumbly Lamsam. Warrior was also selected as the chairman of the editorial board at the meeting.

The Osage News is staffed by Shaw, two employees and its operations are overseen by the Editorial Board according to the Osage Nation’s Independent Press Act of 2008 which was implemented after the Nation’s Supreme Court issued a December 2009 decision in its inaugural case involving the Free Press Act.

Shaw was hired in 2007 as communications coordinator and wrote stories for the Osage News when Paula Stabler, communications officer for the Nation, oversaw the newspaper.

When the constitutionality of the 2008 Free Press Act (ONCA 08-07) became a question and focus of the soon-to-be Supreme Court case involving the Nation’s executive and legislative branches, Principal Chief Jim Gray created an Editorial Council to oversee the newspaper which appointed Shaw as interim editor.

The former Editorial Council comprised McAuliffe, Lamsam and Tara Manthey who is communications director for Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families and a former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporter. The council dissolved after the Supreme Court upheld the 2008 Free Press Act which calls for creating the Editorial Board in its December 2009 decision.

Shaw is a former reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican where she worked for two-and-a-half years and reported on stories which included covering the state’s 19 Pueblos and Native American affairs.

While at the New Mexican, Shaw won First place for Investigative Reporting by the New Mexico Women’s Press Association, and third place in Feature Writing by the Associated Press and Managing Editors, respectively, for “Domestic Violence in Indian Country in Epidemic Proportions.” In 2009 she won third place in Feature Writing by the Native American Journalists Association for “Indian Country responding to Osage’s designs.”

Shaw is a graduate of the American Indian Journalism Institute at the University of South Dakota which resulted in an internship with the Associated Press in Sioux Falls, S.D. She is also a Chips Quinn Scholar which included a reporting internship at the New Mexican and she has her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Oklahoma.