Nancy Wood (journalist)

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Nancy Wood
Nationality Canadian
OccupationJournalist
Employer Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Nancy Wood is a Canadian journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where she hosts CBC Television's nightly newscast CBC Montreal News at 11. [1]

She is a 1985 graduate of Concordia University. [2] [3] [4]

She began her career in 1985 as a staff reporter with the Montreal Gazette and went on to the Toronto Star and then to the Ottawa bureau of Maclean's magazine, before moving to Montreal in 1994 to work for the CBC. [2] [1]

In 1994, she joined CBC Radio, hosting CBM's local programs Radio Noon , Quebec's sole, English-language, province-wide radio talk show, in 1995. [5] [6] She became host of the CBC early morning show Daybreak in 2009. [3] [7] Later she worked on Radio-Canada's Enquête, where she investigated air taxi safety, the Montreal Casino, and the Canadian Armed Forces. [1] In 2006 Montreal Gazette journalist Mike Boone reported that Wood had turned down a journalism job in Toronto to remain in Montreal as the CBC National's Quebec reporter because she felt that remaining in one place was a more stable way to bring up her school-age children. [4]

Wood was hired as host of the popular Canadian Broadcasting Corporation early morning Montreal program Daybreak Montreal in 2009. Her dismissal in 2010 was the subject of some controversy in Montreal. [8] [9] [10] [7] [11]

In 2012 she became a news anchor on CBMT-DT. [12]

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  2. 1 2 Curran, Peggy (26 August 2006). "The Time of Their Lives". Montreal Gazette. ProQuest   434370577.
  3. 1 2 Boone, Mike (10 September 1996). "From reporter to Radio Noon host; Nancy Wood: I have to let may personality come out more". Montreal Gazette. ProQuest   433070922.
  4. 1 2 Boone, Mike (22 December 2006). "Here's a voice of experience everyone could listen to (profile)". Montreal Gazette. ProQuest   434389551.
  5. ↑ "Here's your chance to give feedback to CBC". Montreal Gazette. 17 October 2002. ProQuest   433651197.
  6. ↑ "Wood leaves Radio Noon". Montreal Gazette. 5 February 2005. ProQuest   434143201.
  7. 1 2 Faguy, ,Steve. "Nancy Wood is back in the spotlight". www.montrealgazette.com. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  8. ↑ Aubin, Henry (6 March 2010). "Bring back Nancy Wood; The CBC Radio host was sacrificed on the altar of ratings, even though she was doing a great job". Montreal Gazette. ProQuest   434920238.
  9. ↑ Boone, Mike (22 March 2010). "Numbers may not lie, but Nancy Wood's future came down to two sample listeners". Montreal Gazette. ProQuest   434893892.
  10. ↑ Boone, Mike (15 July 2009). "Maybe it's time to wake up to a woman's voice on Daybreak; "To do what's been a man's job, any woman will do."". Montreal Gazette. ProQuest   434844000.
  11. ↑ "On veut Nancy !". La Presse. 7 March 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  12. ↑ Faguy, Steve (10 August 2012). "More local programs coming to television". Ottawa Citizen. Gazette. Retrieved 4 August 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
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