Marjorie Cortez

Marjorie Cortez is a multimedia journalist who has worked for news organizations in Utah and Colorado for more than three decades. Until her recent retirement from The Deseret News in Salt Lake City, she reported on education, human services, and state government. Her work has been published by Associated Press, ksl.com, Yahoo.com, the Seattle Times, the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News, Pueblo Chieftain, and several other news organizations in the Rocky Mountain region.  She was a guest on The Journalism Salute podcast, which shares the stories of journalists from news organizations big and small across the country. The Society for Features Journalism recently awarded her a national award for features beat specialty writing.