Don Newman (broadcaster)

Don Newman (broadcaster)
Don Newman
CM
Born October 28, 1940 (1940-10-28) (age 71)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Occupation Broadcast journalist
Years active 1972–2009
Employer CTV (1972-1976)
CBC (1976-2009)
Spouse Audrey Ann (d. c. 1995)
Shannon Day (present)

Don Newman, CM (born October 28, 1940) is the former senior parliamentary editor for CBC Television and hosted CBC Newsworld's daily politics program CBC News: Politics.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Newman began his career at CTV where he served as the network’s Washington correspondent from 1972 until 1976. In 1976, he moved to CBC and remained in Washington until 1979. He served two years as the Edmonton correspondent before moving to the parliamentary bureau in 1981. From 1981 to 1993, he was the host of CBC’s This Week in Parliament. In 1989, he began to host the daily Capital Report on the new Newsworld channel. In 1992, he stopped broadcasting for a short period after the sudden death of his only child, Lincoln, during a routine wisdom teeth removal, when his son was home for spring break from Queen’s University. His wife, Audrey Ann, died of breast cancer two-and-a-half years later. He is married to Shannon Day of Edmonton. They live in Ottawa.

He anchored major political events that affected Canadians on CBC Newsworld. Some of them include:

During major political events in the United States, he anchored coverage of it from the Canadian Embassy in Washington. The only events he did not anchor from Washington were the State of the Union addresses and the state funeral of Reagan. He anchored coverage of both those events from the CBC Ottawa bureau, where his daily politics program is based.

In 1998, Newman became the first recipient of the Charles Lynch Award for his outstanding coverage of national issues. In 1999, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.[1] On 14 September 2007, at a special convocation honoring the 40th Anniversary of his alma mater, the University of Winnipeg conferred on him an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

Newman was widely known for his signature introductory phrase to the viewer "Welcome to the Broadcast", in which he enunciates the first syllable of the last word more slowly than the rest of the greeting.

On 2 May 2009, Newman's retirement from CBC was announced.[2]

Don Newman made his final "Politics" broadcast on 19 June 2009. He retired at the end of June 2009. Newman stated that he will occasionally write cbc.ca articles, and file reports on TV. He has also promised the CBC that he will return for the 2011 federal election.[3]

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