RESOLUTION
PUBLIC SESSION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
unanimously
Resolved,
That the Board of Directors
of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Expresses its Heartfelt Condolences
to the Family and Friends of
Nellie Moore (Iñupiaq)
Pioneering Alaska Native Public Media Journalist
We will long remember with gratitude Nellie Moore, one of Alaska’s first Indigenous reporters.
At 19, Nellie became the first news director at public radio station KOTZ in Kotzebue, Alaska, above the Arctic Circle, in 1973, when many Alaka communities depended on radio to communicate with the outside world. In a career spanning 44 years, she also worked as a reporter for KUAC in Fairbanks and KNBA/Alaska Public Media in Anchorage, the first urban Native radio station in the nation, where she was one of the early hosts of National Native News. She also worked as a consultant to Children’s Television Workshop to produce six television segments on the Inupiat people for “Sesame Street.”
Throughout her long career, she introduced local news to Native communities and was a voice for Native people.
The CPB Board of Directors marks Nellie Moore’s leadership, vision, and extraordinary service to public media and the American public with deep respect and appreciation and offers our heartfelt condolences to her family and friends.