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Katie Simpson is a Canadian journalist who is currently a foreign correspondent for CBC News based in Washington, D.C. [1]
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Katie Simpson is a Canadian journalist who is currently a foreign correspondent for CBC News based in Washington, D.C. [1]
Simpson holds a bachelor's degree in media, information and techno culture from Western University. [2]
Simpson reported on the Rob Ford video scandal for CP24. [3] [4]
Simpson became a foreign correspondent at the CBC News Washington Bureau in October 2019. [2]
Simpson covered the 2019 Canadian federal election [5] and the 2020 United States elections for CBC. [6]
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