Georgino Orellana

Jorge Alberto "Georgino" Orellana (February 14, 1960 – April 20, 2010, Age 50) was a Honduran journalist, television producer and presenter for Televisión de Honduras, a private television station. Orellana was shot and killed on April 20, 2010, becoming the sixth Honduran journalist to be killed in the country since March 1, 2010.[1]

In addition to his television work, Orellana was a journalism professor at the National Autonomous University of Honduras in San Pedro Sula.[1] He was previously employed by the Prensa newspaper and Televicentro, one Honduras' largest television networks.[1] Orellana departed Televicentro following the 2009 Honduran coup d'état, citing a difference of opinion over the station's editorial position on the country's interim government of President Roberto Micheletti. (Televicentro had favored the interim government over ousted former President Manuel Zelaya).[1]

Orellana hosted the television news program, En vivo con Georgino (Georgino Live), Televisión de Honduras in the northern city of San Pedro Sula.[1] However, Orellana did not report on controversial political or social problems, such as the government or drug trafficking.[1]

Orellana was shot as he left the Televisión de Honduras station in San Pedro Sula on April 20, 2010, at approximately 9 p.m.[1] He was taken to Hospital Mario Catarino Rivas,[2] where he was pronounced dead, becoming the sixth journalist to be killed in Honduras since March 1, 2010.[1]