Eric Sorensen (journalist)

Last updated

Eric Sorensen is a Canadian television journalist. [1] He has been the national affairs correspondent for Global National since early 2014, and previously served as Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Global National, from November 2006 to 2014. [2] Sorensen was previously a reporter for CBC Television's The National from 1992 until joining Global News in 2006. [1]

Born in Hearst, Ontario and raised in Port Colborne, Ontario, [3] He began his broadcasting career in 1973 after graduating from the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute radio and television arts program. [3] He worked for a variety of television and radio stations across Canada before joining the CBC's national news division, [3] and was the first Canadian to receive the Benton Fellowship in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Chicago in 1984. [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Canadian Broadcasting Corporation</span> Public broadcaster

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively.

<i>Hockey Night in Canada</i> CBC broadcasts of the National Hockey League in Canada

CBC Television has aired National Hockey League (NHL) broadcasts under the Hockey Night in Canada brand that is primarily associated with its Saturday night NHL broadcasts throughout its history in various platforms.

Cyril Knowlton Nash was a Canadian journalist, author and news anchor. He was senior anchor of CBC Television's flagship news program, The National from 1978 until his retirement in 1988. He began his career in journalism by selling newspapers on the streets of Toronto during World War II. Before age 20, he was a professional journalist for British United Press. After some time as a freelance foreign correspondent, he became the CBC's Washington correspondent during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, also covering stories in South and Central America and Vietnam. He moved back to Toronto in 1968 to join management as head of CBC's news and information programming, then stepped back in front of the camera in 1978 as anchor of CBC's late evening news program, The National. He stepped down from that position in 1988 to make way for Peter Mansbridge. Nash wrote several books about Canadian journalism and television, including his own memoirs as a foreign correspondent.

CBET-DT is a CBC Television station in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The station's studios are located on Riverside Drive West and Crawford Avenue in Downtown Windsor, and its transmitter is located near Concession Road 12 in Essex.

CBLT-DT is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the English-language service of CBC Television. It is part of a twinstick with Ici Radio-Canada Télé outlet CBLFT-DT. Both stations share studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre on Front Street West in downtown Toronto, which is also shared with national cable news channel CBC News Network and houses the studios for most of CBC's news and entertainment programs. CBLT-DT's transmitter is located atop the CN Tower.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Maria Tremonti</span> Canadian radio and television journalist (born 1957)

Anna Maria Tremonti is a Canadian radio and television journalist who has been featured on a variety of radio and television programs on the CBC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CIII-DT</span> Global flagship television station in Toronto

CIII-DT is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, CIII-DT maintains studios at 81 Barber Greene Road in the Don Mills district of Toronto, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in downtown Toronto.

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. Founded in 1941, CBC News is the largest news broadcaster in Canada and has local, regional, and national broadcasts and stations. It frequently collaborates with its organizationally separate French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada Info.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ian Hanomansing</span> Canadian journalist

Ian Harvey Hanomansing is a Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He formerly hosted CBC News Network Vancouver on CBC News Network, and reports for CBC Television's nightly newscast, The National.

<i>Global National</i> Canadian national television newscast

Global National is the English language flagship national newscast of Canada's Global Television Network. Editorial and production staff are based out of Global's national news centre at Global BC in Burnaby, British Columbia, with Dawna Friesen presenting from the Global BC studios Mondays to Thursdays, and Farah Nasser presenting from the Global Toronto studios Fridays to Sundays. From 2008 to 2010, the program was the only Canadian network newscast to be regularly anchored from the nation's capital, Ottawa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Kent</span> Former Canadian politician

James Peter Kent is a former Canadian journalist and former politician who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Thornhill from 2008 to 2021. He served as Minister of the Environment in the 28th Canadian Ministry. Before entering politics, he was Deputy Editor of the Global Television Network, a Canadian TV network. He has worked as a news editor, producer, foreign correspondent, and news anchorman on Canadian and American television networks.

Troy Reeb is a Canadian media executive and former journalist who currently serves as executive vice president of broadcast networks for all Corus Entertainment properties, including the Global Television Network. Reeb was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in Westlock, Alberta.

Robert Fisher is a Canadian semi-retired radio and television journalist.

Tony Burman is the Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Media in Windsor, Ontario</span> Overview of mass media in Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Windsor, Ontario is the fourth-largest border city media market in Canada, after Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. It is also the only one of those four markets to exist within the shadow of a larger American media market. While Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are all the dominant media markets in their regions and are adjacent to significantly smaller American markets, Windsor is located directly across the border from Detroit, the 11th largest television market and ninth-largest radio market in the United States. Thus, it is considered part of the Detroit television and radio market for purposes of territorial programming rights. It can also receive radio and television signals from Toledo, Flint, Lansing and even Cleveland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Common</span> Canadian journalist

David Common is a Canadian journalist, best known as a correspondent and anchor for CBC News, and cohost with Asha Tomlinson and Charlsie Agro of CBC Television's consumer affairs newsmagazine Marketplace.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Percy Hatfield</span> Canadian politician

Percy Harper Hatfield is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in a 2013 by-election. He represents the riding of Windsor—Tecumseh.

Denis Martin Harvey was a Canadian journalist and television executive who served as executive editor of The Hamilton Spectator and Montreal Gazette, editor-in-chief of the Toronto Star, and vice-president in charge of English-language television at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vassy Kapelos</span> CBC News network host (born 1981)

Vassiliki Kapelos is a Canadian political journalist, who was the host of Power & Politics on CBC News Network from 2018 to 2022. She formerly worked as the Ottawa bureau chief for Global News and the host of that network's Sunday morning political affairs show, The West Block.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Global News Appoints Eric Sorensen As New Washington Bureau Chief". Canadian Press, October 17, 2006.
  2. "Sorensen to run Global's Washington bureau". Windsor Star , October 19, 2006.
  3. 1 2 3 "New CBET anchor well-travelled". Windsor Star , September 18, 1990.