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  • Senior Reporter and Writer, CNN Investigations, CNN
  • None, Associated Press - Phoenix Bureau
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Covers:  homeland security, the border, cbp/border patrol, cervical cancer prevention, border communities, immigrant issues, medical ethics, drug trafficking
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Bob Ortega’s 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.