Victoria L. LaPoe is Assistant Professor and broadcast
and film sequence coordinator at Western Kentucky University. She
is coauthor of the book Oil and Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane
Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.
Benjamin Rex LaPoe II is Assistant Professor of interactive
storytelling in the School of Journalism and Broadcasting at
Western Kentucky University. LaPoe is the newsletter editor for the
Minorities and Communication division of AEJMC and advisor for the
Multicultural Journalists student group at WKU.
“The book to read to understand that storytelling in Indian Country
is not just a cultural act, but a journalistic one. The LaPoes’
authentic research into the norms and routines of more than forty
Native journalists documents how Native journalism has evolved in
digital spaces to provide visibility to long invisible
communities.”
—Cristina L. Azocar, chair of the Department of Journalism at San
Francisco State University, former president of the Native American
Journalists Association
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