Mark Trahant is the recipient of this year’s I.F. Stone Medal, an annual award celebrating “integrity, courage and indefatigability.”
Trahant’s career spans five decades — in addition to his work as a reporter at the Arizona Republic, he’s reported for Frontline, been an editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Salt Lake Tribune, a Pulitzer finalist. A member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, Trahant also spent many years as the editor and publisher of the Navajo Times and ICT, previously known as Indian Country Today, where he served as editor until January of this year.
Trahant joined The Show to discuss and reflect on 50 years of life as a print journalist. Trahant actually got his start in radio, where he found himself reading short, 150-word summaries of major news stories.
