Retrospective: Bullet-Proof Journalism
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English - March 29, 2019 20:19 - 29 minutes - 41.5 MBSociety & Culture News Politics investigates indigenous news reports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dennis Ward saw it coming. The pipeline, the build-up of tension at Standing Rock in North Dakota, which became an eight-month long stand-off. He convinced the APTN news room to go south-side for what has turned out to be one of the most important stories in US-Indigenous relations this century.
We talk about his pre-APTN career, to his coverage of Standing Rock, including news gathering while being pepper sprayed, and dodging rubber bullets.