ournalist Rob Perez’s investigative reporting on the decadeslong failure of Hawaii to return Indigenous Hawaiians to ancestral lands served carry plan variations and $600 million in landmark legislation for Hawaiian Dwelling Lands and countrywide recognition, winning an Excellence in Investigative Reporting award from the Asian American Journalist Affiliation.
Journalist Rob Perez’s investigative reporting on the Native Hawaiian homesteading plan received two Journalism Excellence Awards from the Asian American Journalists Association final thirty day period. “I am very fascinated and attracted to producing about and carrying out investigations on systems that have an affect on indigenous or marginalized people today. Primarily if I can somehow notify stories that have indicating and impression … to … the Guam arena,” Perez claimed. He is section of Manny Crisostomo’s ongoing visual documentary “Manaotao Sanlagu: CHamorus from the Marianas,” translated as “our people today, the CHamorus, overseas,” highlighted weekly in the Pacific Daily News and at sanlagu.com.
It is a single of the significant factors of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser investigative reporter and ProPublica Distinguished Fellow’s 43-calendar year job operating for newspapers…