CBC’s Juanita Taylor on her Canadian Screen Award, and telling northern stories – CBC

Apr 12, 2023

Taylor, based in Yellowknife and reporting for CBC’s The National, named ‘best national reporter’

A day after being named best national reporter at the Canadian Screen Awards, CBC North journalist Juanita Taylor said the significance of the award was just starting to sink in.

“I’ve been getting so many messages from, you know, friends and family, and people across the North have been sending me some congratulatory messages. So now it’s starting to hit me,” she told Lawrence Nayally, host of Trail’s End on CBC Radio in the N.W.T.

“I’m just very honoured that people will share their stories with me, and I’m very, very honoured to be, I think I’m the first Inuk to get this award.”

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