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📢Excellence in Recovery Journalism Award (2024)

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📢Excellence in Recovery Journalism Award (2024)
Ashton, Elyse, and Jonathan

We were fortunate to partner with Faces and Voices of Recovery this year to present the Excellence in Recovery Journalism Award at the America Honor’s Recovery Gala.

This year’s Excellence in Recovery Journalism Award winner is: Elyse Wild! 🎉🎉🎉

Elyse is a senior editor for Native News Online. She provided the audience in D.C. with a stirring account of her journalism that focuses on innovative and culturally centered efforts to reduce harm from drug use among the federally recognized tribes.

"Please, please, do not forget about Native communities as you work to make recovery available for everyone" - Elyse Wild

1️⃣ Check out her award-winning work:

‘We hold you sacred’: how a mobile drug unit is fighting the opioid crisis in the Cherokee Nation
Led by Native people, an Oklahoma program provides life-saving supplies and addiction care to remote tribal areas
The GuardianElyse Wild, Native News Online

2️⃣ and recent media coverage about the award from Grand Rapids NPR affiliate WGVU (🔊11min):

Journalist Elyse Wild
We speak with Elyse Wild of Native News Online and Tribal Business News
WGVU NEWSShelley Irwin

3️⃣ New reporting!

We’re not the only ones to recognize the importance and greatness of Elyse’s work this year...she is also working on a Pulitzer Center for Journalism-funded series examining how culture affects addiction treatment in Native communities. 

Check out the first article in this new series:

TWO MEDICINES | How Native-Led Programs Are Blending Culture and Western Science to Help Their Relatives Through the Opioid Crisis
Across Indian Country, tribal communities are proving that blending Indigenous practices with Western medicine creates more effective addiction treatment for their citizens, transforming care for tribal members through prevention, harm reduction, and recovery approaches that honor both traditional and clinical wisdom.
Native News OnlineElyse Wild

We can’t wait to see where this reporting goes!

About the Award

The Excellence in Recovery Journalism Award honors journalists who courageously illuminate stories of addiction and recovery. This prestigious accolade recognizes dedication to investigative journalism and compassionate, fact-based storytelling that inspires empathy, challenges stigmas, and catalyzes positive change.

About the Award co-Sponsor

Faces and Voices is the leading national non-profit recovery-oriented advocacy organization. They walk side-by-side with recovery community organizations, peer support specialists, communities, and thought leaders all over the country to advocate for normalizing recovery and de-stigmatizing addiction. Learn more and consider donating here: https://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/

About Us

Reporting on Addiction is a national non-profit collaboration between addiction science experts, professional journalists and journalism educators who want to improve the accuracy and empathy of reporting. RoA offers training and resources for professional and student newsrooms, experts through experience and experts through training. We work relentlessly to decrease stigma and improve the media’s portrayal of addiction across the full continuum of prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery. Learn more and consider donating here: https://www.reportingonaddiction.org

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Read more of Elyse’s work at Native News Online

​​‘A Crucial Public Health Tool’ | Mi’kmaq Nation Installs Lifesaving Vending Machine
In a rural northeastern Maine county with some of the state’s highest overdose rates, the Mi’kmaq Nation is using a vending machine to save the lives of its citizens and their non-Native neighbors.
Native News OnlineElyse Wild
‘We are Not Going to Leave You Behind’ | Wabanaki Nations Opens Culturally Centered Detox Center Open to All
Maine is struggling to meet the needs of its opioid-addicted citizens, due in part to a shortage of detox beds. The state’s four federally recognized tribes, known collectively as the Wabanaki Nations, are helping close the gap with a new medication-assisted treatment and detox facility designed around Indigenous values, but open to all.
Native News OnlineElyse Wild
‘This has Been a Train Wreck for a Long Time’ | Fentanyl Trafficking, Underfunded Tribal Enforcement Subject of Senate Committee Hearing
Tensions rose on Wednesday at a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs oversight hearing on the ongoing crisis of fentanyl — a deadly synthetic opioid 100 times stronger than morphine — in Indian Country.
Native News OnlineElyse Wild
Center for Indigenous Health Launches Guide for Spending Tribal Opioid Settlement Funds
A new website launched by the Center for Indigenous Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health aims to guide tribes in spending funds from the tribal opioid litigation settlements.
Native News OnlineElyse Wild
Washington Lawmakers and Tribal Leaders Unite to Confront the Overdose Crisis in Native Communities
A recent overdose tragedy in Lummi Nation is prompting one of Washington’s U.S. senators to call on fellow lawmakers to pay much-needed attention to a public health crisis that is tearing through Native American communities.
Native News OnlineElyse Wild
Tribes Will Get Part of $150M Settlement from Opioid Manufacturer Hikma Pharmaceuticals
Federally Recognized Tribes will get part of a $150 million settlement from opioid manufacturer Hikma Pharmaceuticals for its part in the nationwide opioid crisis.
Native News OnlineElyse Wild