Nora Mabie covers Indigenous affairs at Montana Free Press. She previously covered Indigenous communities at the five Lee Montana newspapers: the Missoulian, Billings Gazette, Independent Record (Helena), Ravalli Republic and Montana Standard (Butte). Prior to that, she covered tribal affairs for the Great Falls Tribune.
Nora's reporting about the return of ancestral remains and disparities in Native life expectancy have received state and national journalism awards. She was a 2023 National Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and a McGraw Center for Business Journalism Fellow from 2024 to 2025. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.