Jorge Barrera, APTN National News
Original nomination:
Jorge Barrera deserves a serious look for this award.
Jorge Barrera, APTN National News
Original nomination:
Jorge Barrera deserves a serious look for this award.
His work speaks for itself, having a finger on the pulse of Indigenous news in Canada, but also working relentlessly every day of the week. When Idle No More broke it wasn't uncommon to see him at the office until midnight or visiting Chief Spence at 10 p.m.
He is dogged in his approach.
Ask Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan. Barrera can be seen chasing Duncan down halls to get that extra quote. When we think of a reporter, we should think of Barrera. Many times when reporters get beat on a story they shrug it off.
Not Barrera.
Peter Penashue comes to mind.
APTN got beat several times on the story when Barrera dug in looking for a story where APTN could take it back. He did that with this piece:
Other links:
Jorge Barerra on Twitter https://twitter.com/JorgeBarrera
APTN’s coverage of Idle No More http://aptn.ca/pages/news/tag/idle-no-more/