Don Newman
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Don Newman is the senior parliamentary editor for CBC Television. He is also the host of CBC Newsworld's daily politics program.
Originally from Winnipeg, Newman began his career at CTV where he served as the network's Washington correspondent from 1972 until 1976. In 1976 he moved to CBC and remained in Washington until 1979. He served two years as the Edmonton correspondent before moving to the parliamentary bureau in 1981. From 1981 to 1993 he was the host of CBC's This Week in Parliament. In 1989 he began to host the daily Capital Report on the new Newsworld channel. In 1992 he stopped broadcasting for a period after the sudden death of his twenty-year-old son during a routine wisdom teeth removal.
He has also anchored major political events that affect Canadians on CBC Newsworld. Some of them include:
- Canadian federal elections
- Leadership conventions
- Opening of a new session of Parliament
- Visits by world leaders, notably, American presidents.
- During George W. Bush's visit to Canada in 2004, Newman appeared on MSNBC
- Elections in the United States, including U.S. presidential elections
- State of the Union addresses by American presidents
- State funeral of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan
- During the coverage of the state funeral, Newman got expert help in the commentary from former ambassador Allan Gotlieb, Canadian ambassador to Washington in Reagan's day.
- U.S. presidential inaugurations
During major political events in the United States, he anchors coverage of it from the Canadian Embassy in Washington. The only events he didn't anchor from Washington were the state of the union addresses and the state funeral of Reagan. He anchored coverage of both those events from the CBC Ottawa bureau, where he hosts his daily politics program from.
In 1998, Newman became the first recipient of the Charles Lynch Award for his outstanding coverage of national issues. In 1999, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
