Cierra Bettens is a journalist, researcher and critical media studies scholar based in Montréal, QC.
She hosts the weekly APTN News InFocus podcast, and previously worked as a Winnipeg reporter-correspondent for APTN National News.
Cierra is currently enrolled in Concordia University’s MA in Media Studies program. Grounded in Indigenous data sovereignty, journalistic ethics and critical political economy scholarship, her research explores the role Indigenous newsrooms might play in the Indigenous AI ecosystem.
She’s written for Winnipeg Free Press, Broadview Magazine, The Breach, New Feeling and The Uniter.
Cierra has mixed settler and Red River Métis roots and is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation.
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