Arvin Joaquin is an award-winning journalist, editor and producer. He is currently the producer of OMNI News: Filipino. Previously, he was a journalist and host at OMNI News, a senior political reporter at The Canadian Press and an associate editor at Xtra Magazine, where he wrote the magazine’s Digital Publishing Award-winning newsletter.

He has been nominated for multiple National Magazine Awards, Canadian Online Publishing Awards and the JHR/CAJ Award for Human Rights Reporting. In 2021, he was awarded Excellence in HIV Coverage by NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. His work has appeared in Maclean’s, the Huffington Post, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and more.