National Indigenous Times

The National Indigenous Times is an indigenous Australian affairs website first published in newspaper form on 27 February 2002. It is now an online publication owned by indigenous businessman and former Kimberley Land Council CEO Wayne Bergmann (51 percent), Australian journalist Tony Barrass (41 percent) and Richard Gregson, a former PwC senior partner and now a director at Hall Chadwick WA (9 percent).

It was originally set up by Owen Carriage, the founder of the Koori Mail, and a group of other Australians, both indigenous and non-indigenous.

The newspaper seeks to:

Major news stories broken by the NIT include:

At the first Multicultural Media Awards in September 2012, Gerry Georgatos, then an investigative reporter and feature writer with the paper, received two awards: Coverage of Indigenous Affairs and Investigative Reporting, and Feature Writing. In three years with NIT Gerry Georgatos delivered breakthrough stories on Native Title, corrupt practices and government neglect of poverty-stricken communities. Georgatos is now a university researcher and has expertise in racism, suicide prevention and Aboriginal issues. His correspondence for NIT was as a volunteer, "bringing to the fore voices from his many travels".

At the 2013 Multicultural and Indigenous Media Awards (MIMA) at the NSW parliament, Georgatos won three awards including Journalist of the Year for his coverage on the extent of suicide among Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. Georgatos was able to secure commitments from the federal Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion, to increase suicide prevention responses and strategies.

On 27 February 2012, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's program Media Watch aired a segment that detailed how the newspaper had been taking repeatedly a substantial amount of material from other media sources without giving any citations. This was addressed by editor Stephen Hagan who promised to deliver more original material and use citations when using external references; Hagan departed in February 2013.

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