Dan David (APTN Photo) Dan David, a renowned Mohawk journalist and the founder of Aboriginal Peoples Television Network’s news department, has died. His sister Marie David said he died Jan. 12 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 73. Karyn Pugliese, an APTN host and producer and David’s friend and colleague, said his death is a huge loss for the dozens of Indigenous journalists he mentored and whose careers he helped launch. “We call him the father of APTN News,” Pugliese said in an interview Sunday. “He was an icon. Dan David was Indigenous journalism in this country … He made a lot people really think about journalism.” Pugliese said David helped found APTN News in 2000 — then called InVision News — to transform the way Indigenous stories…
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