Bob Ortega Biography
Bob Ortega is an American anchor and reporter working for CNN as a news correspondent. He joined the CNN news team in June 2017, after previously working for The Wall Street Journal.
Bob Ortega Career
Ortega is a senior writer for CNN Investigates. He works out of Phoenix, Arizona, and writes about immigration and border problems. Ortega has been an investigative reporter for a long time. He most recently worked as a specialty writer for almost six years at the Arizona Republic, where he covered the border and focused on child welfare. Managing editor of the Honolulu Civil Beat, a news site that focuses on responsibility journalism, was another job he had.
Ortega started his career as a reporter in Alaska, working as a TV reporter in Fairbanks, Juneau, and Anchorage. He then moved on to print journalism at the Anchorage Times, where he found out about a military program testing deadly biological and chemical agents in a remote base near Delta, Alaska. After that, Ortega was managing editor of the Homer News. He then went to work for the Seattle Times and the Wall Street Journal, where he wrote about child labor and other problems. It was while he worked at the Journal that Bob wrote “In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart, the World’s Largest Retailer.”
Ortega taught journalists how to do investigative reporting in Paraguay, Georgia, Belarus, and Ukraine for ten years. During that time, he worked through a military coup in Paraguay and uprisings in Georgia and Ukraine. The Lukashenko government shut down a program he ran to help independent news outlets in Belarus. They also took away his visa, which meant he had to leave the country.
Ortega has won both the Hillman Prize and the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for his work on social justice issues. He also won the Sidney Award in 2013 for writing about a widely used but deeply flawed test for cervical cancer. As a Knight International Press Fellow, he worked in Paraguay. He has also taught reporters in 17 countries the world over. On top of that, Ortega taught writing at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.
At IREX, he was in charge of a program to help and train the media in a post-Soviet country that was having a hard time with an oppressive, totalitarian government. The show ran from Minsk until August 2003. After the government of Belarus shut down their offices in Belarus, they ran their business out of Kyiv, Ukraine. He was also in charge of visiting trainers and a regular staff of 17. His job was to run a program mostly paid for by USAID that helped Belarusian news outlets become more professional and independent.
Ortega was crucial in making sure that groups like the Open Society Foundation, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, the foreign ministries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland, as well as important European media NGOs, worked together on strategy and funds for media projects. Besides making a yearly plan and budget, he taught and consulted on topics such as reporting, writing news stories, good communication, journalistic ethics, business and economic reporting, and covering the courts and the legal system.
Ortega was in charge of a large web-based services program that included hosting websites and emails, buying equipment setting up ISDN lines to connect media outlets for video exchanges, setting up local area networks, and other services. He led efforts to help major news outlets set up virtual newsrooms and online news services to help print versions that the government was shutting down and eventually replace them. In Ukraine, he also led important media training for political candidates that was put together by the NDI office in Kyiv.
As well as being a reporter and director, Ortega also worked for Alaska Television Network as an assignment editor. He reported and hosted a morning news show in Fairbanks (1984). In June 1985, he created and hosted a weekly show about politics and the state legislature. He also wrote about a wide range of topics for the morning and evening news shows. From 1986 to 1987, Ortega managed news coverage in Anchorage. He also gave other staff members stories to work on and did daily investigative reporting for the morning and evening news shows. Besides that, he wrote several stories for CNN. He went to Princeton University and got a degree in history. He also went to Columbia University and got a master’s degree in journalism.
Bob Ortega Salary
Ortega earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Bob Ortega Net Worth
Ortega has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which he has earned through his career as a News Correspondent.
Bob Ortega Age
Ortega has neither disclosed the date, month nor the year he was born. Thus, it is not known how old he is or when he celebrates his birthday.
Bob Ortega Height and Weight
Ortega stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall (1.77m) and weighs 70 kgs (154 lbs)
Bob Ortega Family
Ortega went to the United States from Mexico City with his family when he was nine years old. Ortega likes to keep his personal life private hence he has neither disclosed the names of his parent nor those of his siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
Bob Ortega Wife and Children
Ortega has not disclosed his relationship status as he is very private with his personal life. However, this information will be updated when available.
Bob Ortega Social Media Platforms
Ortega is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 3.6k followers on Twitter 9.6k followers on Instagram, and 1.8k followers on Facebook.