Long-time Cree journalist Nelson Bird says more Indigenous people should consider a career in journalism – APTN News
Feb 17, 2026
For a generation of viewers, Nelson Bird was a mainstay on CTV News in Saskatchewan.
Bird started his career in 1998 as a video journalist, producer and host of Indigenous Circle before becoming the assignment editor at CTV News Regina.
“Growing up in the ‘70s, you didn’t see a lot of Indigenous people in the news and I’ll admit I didn’t watch a whole lot of news, we didn’t have a lot of choices at the time, of course, with one channel but when I did watch it, we rarely saw Indigenous people on the news, like so seldom,” says Bird on the latest episode of Face to Face.
