Verified News Network (VNN) is a Native American-owned digital media organization based in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, on the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Reservation.
VNN was founded in 2018 by operations manager Kelly Tidwell and journalist Brittany Harlow to address gaps in local news coverage of Indigenous and Native American topics.
[4] In 2024, VNN organized an intertribal symposium on Native American history and donated $18,900 to the Tulsa City-County Library, granting public access to the Indian Rights Association Collection.
[9][10] In 2023, VNN partnered with the Lucinda Hickory Research Institute on an investigative series examining Tulsa’s history and the impact of Native American allotments.
[11][12][3] VNN partnered with the Oklahoma Media Center on the "From Adversity to Entrepreneurship (FATE)" learning series, which addressed socio-economic challenges facing communities in generational poverty.