UA to Host Navajo Times Publisher
Tom Arviso Jr.
Tom Arviso Jr. will talk to students in journalism and American Indian studies on freedom of the press issues.
The University of Arizona department of journalism and the American Indian Studies department next week will welcome to campus the publisher of the Navajo Times and an advocate for freedom of the press.
Tom Arviso Jr., a Navajo originally from Window Rock, Ariz., is the chief executive officer of the Navajo Times Publishing Company, Inc. and the publisher of the Navajo Times newspaper.
Arviso will speak to two UA journalism classes on Tuesday and will be honored at a reception that afternoon in the Marshall Building by student members of the Native American Journalists Association. On Wednesday, Arviso will speak at a colloquium sponsored by the American Indian Studies program.
He is a former board vice president and treasurer of the Native American Journalists Association’s board of directors and is currently a member of the Arizona Newspapers Association’s board of directors. In 1997, NAJA awarded Arviso its prestigious Wassaja Award for “extraordinary service to Native journalism.”
In 1998 the Arizona Newspapers Association honored Arviso with the Freedom of Information Award. Arviso received a John S. Knight Fellowship in Journalism in 2000-2001 and studied newspaper management at Stanford University. He is the first Native American to have been selected for a Knight Fellowship.
The public is invited to attend the reception being held Tuesday by the UA chapter of NAHJ. It will be held from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. in Room 312 of the Marshall Building.
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- Contact Info
Kate Harrison
UA Journalism Department
520-626-3079
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