Tom Clark

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This article is about the Canadian television journalist. For the justice of the United States Supreme Court, see Tom C. Clark. For the contemporary American poet born in 1941, see Tom Clark.

Tom Clark is a Canadian television journalist. He is the Washington, DC bureau chief for CTV News, and a substitute anchor for the CTV National News.

Clark was educated at Toronto's Upper Canada College.

He was the first reporter to cover the Ethiopian famine in 1984, the only other Canadian reporter besides veteran war correspondent Scott Taylor, allowed into Yugoslavia when NATO launched aerial war against Serbia in 1999, and the first Canadian Journalist to ever interview U.S President George W. Bush one on one on television. He also hosted CTV's W-FIVE. Clark comes from a family of journalists. His great-grandfather Joseph T. Clark was editor of Saturday Night, his grandfather was a reporter for the Toronto Star, his father was the founder of Canada NewsWire, and his grand-uncle Gregory Clark was an acclaimed writer and journalist.