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Senior Producer, The National, CBC TV News

I'm currently one of the senior producers of the National in Toronto, something I've been doing since the fall of 2009. But I took a few months off last fall fall to teach in the Journalism program at the University of King's College in Halifax. I was replacing a professor who took a sabbatical. I've been a journalist for more than 30-years. From beginning as a copy-clerk at the Ottawa Citizen while still at Carleton University....to a reporter at the Oshawa Times....Along the way, I've also been a reporter for CBC radio in Yellowknife, Inuvik, Ottawa, Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay when I went there), Regina and Toronto where I worked at Queen's Park. In 1998, I was hired by the National. In that role, I have covered Canadian elections, presidential debates in US campaigns as a fill-in in Washington and the Walkerton water disaster, among other things. I was also one of the reporters sent to New York for 9-11 coverage. In 2003, I became the Toronto Bureau Chief, responsible for assigning and managing all the local and National reporters in Toronto. After a few years, I worked on a new international news program--the first daily show of its kind in Canada. When that ended, I rejoined the National. Over the years, I've been involved in covering every federal election and election night show from 1988....as well as elections in every province, except for Alberta and NL. A circumstance of timing.