Carole MacNeil

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Carole MacNeil
Born1963or1964(age 59–60) [1]
Occupation(s)Journalist, news presenter
Television CBC News: Sunday Night (2002—2009)
CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil (2002—2021)
Spouse
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(m. 2009)​

Carole MacNeil is a Canadian television journalist, known for her work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which spanned over thirty years.

MacNeil began her career anchoring local news programs in New Brunswick and Ontario in the early 1990s, before joining CBC Newsworld in 1998. Her most recent program was CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil, a daytime news program on CBC News Network. [2] [3]

Biography

MacNeil grew up in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. [1] From 1990 to 1994, she worked at CBC affiliate station CHSJ-TV in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she was a co-anchor for the evening news program and the host of a current affairs program. [1] [4] In October 1994, she moved to Windsor, Ontario, where she became the anchor of the local evening newscast on CBET, the local CBC station. [1] MacNeil replaced David Kyle as the station's late-night news anchor in February 1996, becoming the anchor of both the evening and late-night newscasts. [5] Leaving the Windsor station in August 1998, she joined CBC Newsworld as a co-anchor of the CBC morning news program with Ralph Benmergui. [4]

In 2000, MacNeil helped launch Canada Now , the supper hour news program on CBC Television.

In February 2002, MacNeil and Evan Solomon became the host of CBC News: Sunday Night , an hour-long prime time news broadcast on CBC Television, as well as on CBC Newsworld. [6] CBC News Sunday won several Gemini Awards. At the 24th Gemini Awards in 2009, one of MacNeil's reports for CBC News: Sunday Night was nominated for "Best Lifestyle/practical information segment". [7] The program was cancelled in May 2009 during a restructuring of CBC News by CBC executive Richard Stursberg, who MacNeil married weeks later in June 2009. [8] [9] [10]

In 2011, the CBC Ombudsman was called to review MacNeil's on-air statements concerning the Six Day War. Upon review the "CBC acknowledged it was misleading for [MacNeil] to assert that neighbouring countries attacked Israel." [11]

MacNeil joined the CBC in May 1987, and celebrated her 25th anniversary in 2012. From October 2012 to September 2013, MacNeil took a leave of absence and studied abroad in France.[ citation needed ]

In October 2021, MacNeil announced that she would be departing from CBC News later that month. [12] Her last broadcast on CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil took place on October 26, 2021. [13] [14]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Shaw, Ted (August 13, 1994). "Getting To Know You". The Windsor Star . p. 37. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  2. ↑ "CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil". CBC Program Guide. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Carole MacNeil". CBC Media Centre. Archived from the original on October 20, 2017. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  4. 1 2 "CBC's MacNeil moves on". The Windsor Star . August 1, 1998. p. 57. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  5. ↑ Shaw, Ted (February 22, 1996). "New look for CBET". The Windsor Star. p. 17. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  6. ↑ Atherton, Tony (February 21, 2002). "Debut of CBC News: Sunday looks promising". The Ottawa Citizen . p. 65. Retrieved June 14, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "24th ANNUAL GEMINI AWARDS / FULL LIST OF NOMINATIONS & WINNERS" (PDF). June 13, 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2011. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  8. ↑ Dixon, Guy (June 15, 2009). "Major changes ahead at CBC News". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  9. ↑ Govani, Shinan (June 1, 2009). "Out the door, but then down the aisle". National Post. p. 19. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  10. ↑ Bradshaw, James (June 2, 2009). "CBC's Stursberg to marry TV news host MacNeil". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  11. ↑ , August 26, 2011.
  12. ↑ Carole MacNeil [@carolemacneil] (October 5, 2021). "Well. It's official. I just wanted to let you know, I am leaving CBC News later this month. I will have more to say later, but I am so grateful for my time with @CBCNews . Last day October 26. (missingyoualready)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  13. ↑ Carole MacNeil [@carolemacneil] (October 26, 2021). "Tonight will be my last show on CBC News Network. I'll say a proper goodbye near the end of my program The Rundown, which starts at 4pm et @CBCNews . I hope you'll join me" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  14. ↑ Taylor-Vaisey, Nick. "Justin Trudeau's big reveal". POLITICO. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
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