Gary Fife on First Person Radio 7/25/2012

He moved to Alaska and founded another Native radio first, --the first Native weekday radio news service, "National Native News".  At its peak, National Native News was carried on 181 public radio stations, across the country.   During Fifes' tenure, the service won eight national awards in its first seven years with an unprecedented and unequalled sweep of the radio news awards at the 1993 NAJA awards competition.  National Native News began national carriage with National Public Radio, and was later switched to American Public Radio.

In the field of commercial TV, Fife was hired as Correspondent for the KTVA-TV newsmagazine, "Inside Alaska", covering Alaska‘s people and issues.  In that first year of experience, he garnered three statewide and one national honor.  Fife won three awards from the Alaska Press Club, and took First Place in the Best TV News Story competition at the Native American Journalists Association competition. 

In his career, Fife has numerous awards in National and State press competitions, 3 Legislative Citations from the State of Alaska and the Governor’s Community Service Medal.  In 1985, he was the first Native American recipient of a Ford Fellowship in Educational Journalism.  He has held an internship on the national desk of National Public Radio.