“It wasn’t that long ago that I was having a hard time getting editors to reply to my email and just starting out,” freelance journalist Rebecca Nagle says. Nagle’s journalism career, which began in 2017, has already had an outsize impact. Last month, she and another freelancer, Darcy Courteau, won the Heising-Simons Foundation’s $100,000 American Mosaic Journalism Prize recognizing their in-depth reporting on underrepresented communities.
Nagle is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. (She’s shown here in front of the Cherokee National History Museum in Tahlequah, Okla.) A former community organizer, Nagle got hooked on journalism after writing opinion essays informed by her advocacy. Today, her print and audio reporting often covers violence against Native women and cultural appropriation, among other Native American issues. She produced the podcast series This Land about Carpenter v. Murphy, a case of murder and tribal sovereignty argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. Judges praised her clear reporting on an arcane legal issue with far-reaching human impact.
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