David Studer

David Studer is a Canadian television news producer, who was a longtime producer for the CBC Television newsmagazine program The Fifth Estate . ^[1] He was the winner of the Gordon Sinclair Award for excellence in Canadian broadcast journalism at the 14th Gemini Awards in 1999. ^[2]

Studer began his career with CTV News in the 1970s, before leaving that network to join the CBC in 1980. ^[3] He left The Fifth Estate in the early 2010s, becoming director of journalistic standards and practices for the CBC. ^[4]

Awards

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Work	Result	Ref(s)
Gemini Awards	1994	Best Information Series	The Fifth Estate with Kelly Crichton	Nominated	[5]
	1995			Won	[6]
	1996		The Fifth Estate with Susan Teskey	Nominated	[7]
	1997			Won	[8]
	1998			Won	[9]
	1999	Best News Information Series		Nominated
		Gordon Sinclair Award		Won	[2]
	2000	Best News Information Series	The Fifth Estate with Susan Teskey	Won	[10]
	2002		The Fifth Estate with Jim Williamson	Won	[11]
	2004		The Fifth Estate with Sally Reardon	Won	[12]
	2005			Nominated
	2006	Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program	The Fifth Estate: "Black Dawn" with Jane Mingay, Jim Williamson, Douglas Arrowsmith	Nominated	[13]
	2007	Best News Information Series	The Fifth Estate with Sally Reardon	Won	[14]
	2008			Won	[12]
	2009			Won	[12]

References

1. "'Fifth estate' gets right to work". Toronto Star , October 6, 1999.
2. "Trudeau show big winner". Toronto Star , October 26, 1999.
3. "Two more quit CTV news staff". The Globe and Mail , October 17, 1980.
4. Terry Glavin, "After the Paris atrocities, a long-overdue reckoning with ourselves". Ottawa Citizen , January 14, 2015.
5. Greg Quill, "The Gemini nominees are . . ." Toronto Star , January 26, 1994.
6. "The winners at yesterday's Gemini Awards gala". Montreal Gazette , March 6, 1995.
7. "Major Gemini nominees; Awards gala to be broadcast March 3". Montreal Gazette , January 25, 1996.
8. Christopher Harris, "Gemini awards honour broadcast journalists". The Globe and Mail , March 1, 1997.
9. Craig MacInnis, "Traders, Newsroom big winners at Geminis". Halifax Daily News , March 2, 1998.
10. "Early Gemini winners Saturday". Edmonton Journal , October 30, 2000.
11. "And the Gemini winners are…". Playback , November 11, 2002.
12. Sonya Bell, "The Fifth Estate". The Canadian Encyclopedia , September 16, 2022.
13. "CBC scoops news Geminis amid CTV boycott". Waterloo Region Record , October 18, 2006.
14. "Documentary that helped lead to conviction of Klansman snags Gemini Award". Canadian Press, October 15, 2007.