Bob Ortega is a Mexican-American journalist from Mexico City currently working as a Senior Writer for CNN’s Investigatives since June of 2017. There, he covers border and immigration issues from Phoenix, Arizona.

Bob Ortega Biography

Ortega is a Mexican-American journalist from Mexico City currently working as a Senior Writer for CNN’s Investigatives since June of 2017. There, he covers border and immigration issues from Phoenix, Arizona.

Ortega joins CNN after a long career as an investigative journalist, most recently working as a specialized writer for the Arizona Republic, where he covered the border and focused on child welfare for nearly six years. He was also managing editor of the Honolulu Civil Beat, a publication dedicated to accountability journalism.

Ortega began his media career in Alaska, working as a television reporter in Fairbanks, Juneau, and Anchorage before moving to the Anchorage Times, where he exposed a military program researching lethal biological and chemical agents in a remote military base outside Delta, Alaska.

Bob went on to work as the managing editor of the Homer News before moving on to the Seattle Times and the Wall Street Journal, where he covered child labor and other topics. Bob wrote “In Sam, We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart, the World’s Largest Retailer” while at the Journal.

Ortega spent 10 years working in nations like Paraguay, Georgia, Belarus, and Ukraine, teaching journalists in investigative reporting and working through military coups in Paraguay and revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine. The Lukashenko administration canceled his visa and forced him to move out of the country after a program he led to support independent news media in Belarus was shut down.

He has trained journalists in 17 countries across four continents and served as a Knight International Press Fellow in Paraguay. Ortega was also a journalism professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Bob Ortega Education and Awards

He is a proud graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism where he obtained a master’s degree in history and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Ortega has won the Hillman Prize for Social Justice Reporting as well as the Ancil Payne Award for Journalism Ethics. He also earned the Sidney Award in 2013 for reporting on a fundamentally faulty and widely used cervical cancer screening test.

Bob Ortega Age

He manages to keep his age away from the limelight. Bob shares no information in regards to his dates of birth with the public. An update of this information will be out when available.

Bob Ortega Family

He moved to the States from Mexico City with his family when he was nine years old. However, he shares no information in relation to his parents, and siblings if he has any. An update of this information will be out when available.

Bob Ortega Wife

Ortega manages to keep this information away from the limelight. He shares no information in regards to whether or not he is in marriage or he has a girlfriend. An update of this information will be out when available.

Bob Ortega Children

He manages to keep this information away from the limelight. Bob shares no information in regards to whether he has any children or not. An update of this information will be out when available.

Bob Ortega Height

He is approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall which is about 1.72 meters.

Bob Ortega Salary

He earns an estimated annual salary ranging between $10,000 to $100,000.

Bob Ortega Net Worth

Bob has an estimated net worth of between $150,000-$2,000,000.

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