Anishinabek News opens pages to new readers

UOI OFFICES  – The Anishinabek News will soon be a more attractive and timely product seen by thousands more readers.

After 24 years of serving as the official publication of the Union of Ontario Indians, the monthly newspaper is launching its own website to better serve the 55,000 citizens of the Anishinabek Nation.

“We will continue to print a gradually reducing number of copies,” says UOI Communications director Maurice Switzer, “and we’ll be working with our 39 member communities to provide print versions to anyone without high-speed Internet access. But, as First Nation connectivity increases, the need to rely on slower and more costly production and distribution will decrease.”

The print edition has been accessible online for the past three years at the Anishinabek Nation/Union of Ontario Indians website – www.anishinabek.ca – but effective today the online version has a stand-alone Internet presence at www.anishinabeknews.ca.

“We’re a political organization, and have to always be trying to get our messages out as efficiently as possible,” says Switzer who serves as the editor of the Anishinabek News. “In just over a decade we’ve gone from charging our own citizens for a printed newspaper to creating a product that is free to anyone in the world who wants it.”