Linden MacIntyre

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Linden MacIntyre
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Macintyre in May 2008
BornLinden Joseph MacIntyre [1]
(1943-05-29) May 29, 1943 (age 81)
Bay St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia, Canada
OccupationWriter, broadcaster, journalist
Period1964 - present
GenreNon-fiction, fiction
Notable works The Bishop's Man , Who Killed Ty Conn
Notable awards2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize
2010 Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award
Spouse Carol Off (m. 2000)
Children5

Linden Joseph MacIntyre (born May 29, 1943) is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won ten [2] Gemini Awards, an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence, including the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his 2009 novel, The Bishop's Man . Well known for many years for his stories on CBC's The Fifth Estate , in 2014 he announced his retirement from the show at age 71. His final story, broadcast on November 21, 2014, was "The Interrogation Room" about police ethics and improper interrogation room tactics. [3]

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Life and career

One of three children of Dan Rory MacIntyre and Alice Donohue, he was raised in Port Hastings, Nova Scotia. The Donohue family was from Bay St. Lawrence, a small fishing community in northern Cape Breton, who were originally from Ireland. As a miner, his father was rarely at home. MacIntyre has said, "The old fellow decided the family would stay in the community and he would go away and stay as long as it took. ... My mother was a teacher and my sisters and I stayed with her." [4]

After high school, MacIntyre moved to Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where in 1964 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Francis Xavier University. He also studied at St. Mary's University and the University of King's College in Halifax. From 1964 to 1967 he worked for the Halifax Herald as a parliamentary reporter in Ottawa. He continued in the same role with the Financial Times of Canada from 1967 to 1970. He was drawn back to Cape Breton after the death of his father in 1970 and for the next six years he lived there and worked as a correspondent for the Chronicle Herald.

He joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Halifax in 1976 and for three years he hosted a regional public affairs show called The MacIntyre File. It was with this program that he launched a successful legal challenge before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia over access to affidavits and documents relating to search warrants. Later heard before the Supreme Court of Canada, the successful suit was a landmark case which set a precedent in support of public and media access to information in Canada. [5]

In 1980, MacIntyre moved to Toronto, where he still resides, to work as a producer and journalist and in 1981 he joined CBC's new flagship news program, The Journal .

His work took him around the world preparing documentary reports on international affairs, preparing such notable features as 1981's "Dirty Sky, Dying Water" (about acid rain). From 1986 to 1988 he was host and national editor of CBC Radio's flagship show, Sunday Morning . In 1990 he was named co-host of the weekly investigative newsmagazine the fifth estate , with which he remained until 2014. In addition, he has been a frequent guest host of The Current on CBC Radio One.

In 2014, MacIntyre decided to retire both to help spare at least one younger colleague from the pending 657 job cuts from the CBC and to illustrate the effect of the considerable budget cuts the CBC is enduring. [6]

Stories

For the fifth estate, he has written numerous investigative reports often with producer Neil Docherty. Many of the shows have also appeared on Frontline . Examples of his stories include:

Personal life

During a fifty-day lockout by the CBC in 2005, [10] MacIntyre penned a memoir called Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, which he dedicated to his mother. He has five children including CBC New Brunswick producer Darrow MacIntyre. He married broadcaster Carol Off in 2000. [11]

Publications

Novels

Linden MacIntyre talks about The Bishop's Man on Bookbits radio.

His first three novels are called his Cape Breton Trilogy: [12]

Non-fiction

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References

  1. Honorary Degree Recipients: Linden Joseph MacIntyre Cape Breton University
  2. "Linden MacIntyre leaves CBC's the fifth estate". Toronto Star . 7 May 2014.
  3. On May 8, 2014, MacIntyre announced he would retire from the fifth estate citing budget cuts at the CBC.
  4. Quoted by Tim Christison in Wordfest, FFWD (Calgary) Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Newswire".
  6. Kane, Laura (8 May 2014). "Linden MacIntyre, Alison Smith retiring to save jobs for young journalists at CBC". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  7. Noted by Charles Levin and Christine Ury in "Welcoming Big Brother: The Malaise of Confidentiality in the Therapeutic Culture" in Christine M. Koggel, Charles Levin and Allannah Furlong, editors, Confidential Relationships: Psychoanalytic, Ethical, and Legal Contexts, Rodopi Press, 2003, p. 78
  8. "BFI | Film & TV Database | The TROUBLE WITH EVAN (1995)". October 23, 2008. Archived from the original on 23 October 2008.
  9. Goodman, Walter (June 21, 1994). "Review/Television; Filming the Life of a Troubled Family". The New York Times.
  10. Wordfest Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
  11. "Causeway".
  12. 1 2 Sue Carter Flinn, "Random House Canada acquires new Linden MacIntyre novel", Quill and Quire, March 11, 2011
  13. Canadian Booksellers Association Archived 2010-09-25 at the Wayback Machine , May 29, 2010
  14. Dundas, Deborah (21 November 2014). "Linden MacIntyre on community, vengeance and punishment". Toronto Star Books. Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 22 November 2014.