Nunatsiaq News honours longtime editor Jim Bell with memorial bursary – Nunatsiaq News

Paper hopes Bell’s dedication to his craft, to the North will inspire future Inuit journalists

Jim Bell’s name will live on in a tribute to his dedication to news, the North and Inuit.

Nunatsiaq News has renamed two bursaries aimed at helping Inuit students become journalists after Bell, a longtime editor of the paper who dedicated his career — and indeed his life — to telling the stories of Nunavut.

Bell died in August 2021, at the age of 69, following a shining career in journalism that began in the early 1980s with Nunatsiaq News.

“In the 50-year history of Nunatsiaq News, Jim Bell became an icon of northern journalism and his name was synonymous with the paper,” said current managing editor Corey Larocque.

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