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APTN founding news director Thaioronióhte Dan David to receive CJF Lifetime Achievement Award


TORONTO – The Canadian Journalism Foundation's 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Thaioronióhte Dan David, the CJF announced today. He is being recognized for launching the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network's (APTN) news service, the world's first national Indigenous-led news network, and for his life-long support of journalism initiatives around the world. "After centuries in which the stories and reality of Indigenous people were oppressed, we Canadians are now living in a time where those realities and those stories are finally being told," said selection jury member Hamlin Grange, a veteran broadcast journalist, now principal consultant of DiversiPro, in the...