Belle Puri is a Canadian

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...

. During a career that has spanned more than three decades Puri has been a business reporter and a legislative reporter. On October 28, 2010, the office of

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Gordon Campbell Gordon Muir Campbell, (born January 12, 1948) is a retired Canadian diplomat and politician who was the 35th mayor of Vancouver from 1986 to 1993 and the 34th premier of British Columbia from 2001 to 2011. He was the leader of the British Co ...

announced he had appointed Puri his

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. However, Campbell resigned five days later, before Puri took up this position. Nevertheless, Puri had restrictions put on the kinds of reporting she could do—in particular she was removed from the legislative beat. Charlie Smith, writing in the

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, cited Puri as an instance of a CBC reporter who gave the appearance she might have ties with BC politicians that should preclude her from reporting on the legislature. In 2005 Puri was recognized with

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′s Jack Webster Award for outstanding journalism. In 2022, she won the

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for Best Local Journalist at the

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.Jamie Samhan
"2022 Canadian Screen Award Winners: Broadcast News And Documentary & Factual"
''

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'', April 4, 2022. Puri is the chair of the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation.

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