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Bob Ortega
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Senior Reporter and Writer, CNN Investigations, CNN
Phoenix
Beats
Biography
Bob Ortega is the managing editor of Honolulu Civil Beat. He joined the website from the Arizona Republic, where he covered the border and other issues. He recently received the Hillman Prize and the Ancil Payne Ethics in Journalism award for his coverage, with Daniel Gonzalez, of last year's surge in child migration from Central America. In 2014, he received a Best of the West award for border and immigration reporting, was named the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year, and received the Don Bolles Award for investigative reporting, among others, for his reporting on the use of deadly force by Border Patrol agents and Customs officers. He won a Sidney Award for his investigation of an ethically questionable cancer study in India. An H.F. Guggenheim fellow in 2012, he previously reported for the Wall Street Journal and the Seattle Times, among other publications. He served as a Knight International Journalism Fellow in Paraguay in 1999, and subsequently led media-training projects in Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus for the International Center for Journalists and IREX through 2005. He also has trained journalists in investigative reporting in 14 other countries, and taught journalism at Ryerson University, in Toronto.. He is the author of “In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart, the World’s Most Powerful Retailer,” Times Books, 1998.
Content
By John Miller, Taylor Romine Verified, Aaron Cooper Verified, Jeff Winter, Bob Ortega Verified| Yahoo Verified Hanna Park, John Miller, Taylor Romine, Aaron Cooper, Jeff Winter and Bob Ortega, CNNFri, April 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM UTC7 min readA sightseeing helicopter plunged from the sky into the Hudson River on Thursday, turning a family outing above Manhattan’s misty skyline into a tragedy. The helicopter carried six people, including three children and an executive from Siemens — a German multinational technology conglomerate.
By Bob Ortega Verified| Flipboard@ 2 days agoUSA: "Hands Off!" Rally and protest in PhoenixPhoenix, United States - April 05, 2025 Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes speaks to the crowd at the nation-wide mass mobilization Hands Off! Rally and March at Wesley Bolin Memorial Park in Phoenix, Arizona USA on April 5, 205. Organized by 50501, the protests were to send the message that the people do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies.
By Bob Ortega Verified| CNN Verified Voters work on their ballots at a polling place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on November 5 in Simi Valley, California. Chris Pizzello/AP/File CNN — Misha Pride, then the mayor of South Portland, Maine, was greeting voters early on Election Day when police cars suddenly swarmed outside the city’s community center with lights flashing. “Possible shooting,” the city manager texted Pride. Officers locked down the center.
Company Info
CNN
CNN Business is the business news division of CNN, which was founded in 1980 as the first 24-hour cable news channel. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, CNN is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. CNN Business provides extensive coverage of global financial markets, economic trends, corporate news, technology, and personal finance. The platform offers a range of content formats, including real-time news articles, video segments, live broadcasts, market data, and financial analysis tools. It also features special reports on significant economic events and corporate developments. CNN Business serves individual investors, business professionals, and general audiences by delivering reliable and timely information to support informed financial decisions and understanding of market dynamics.
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