Ira Basen

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Ira Basen is a Canadian radio producer, who has been associated with CBC Radio since 1984. He has been associated with the programs Sunday Morning , Quirks and Quarks , The Inside Track and This Morning , and has written for Saturday Night and The Globe and Mail .

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Life

He graduated from Carleton University and holds an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [1]

He has taught at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University and the University of Western Ontario and has won many awards in the field of journalism.

Ira is the co-author of "THE BOOK OF LISTS: REVISED AND UPDATED AND EVEN MORE CANADIAN"

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References

  1. Center for Journalism Ethics. "Ira Basen" Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine . University of Wisconsin.
  2. http://www.banffcentre.ca/faculty/abc/basen_i/default.asp