Mike Duffy
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Michael D. (Mike) Duffy (born 1946 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian television journalist. He is currently the Ottawa editor for CTV NewsNet, and a host of Mike Duffy Live and Countdown with Mike Duffy on the network.
[edit] Career
Duffy began his career in radio in the mid-1960s. He moved to CFCF as a lineup and assignment editor in 1969, and in 1971 he joined CFRA radio in Ottawa as a political reporter.
Duffy joined CBC radio's Parliament Hill bureau in 1974, and became a reporter for The National in 1977. In 1986 he won an ACTRA Award for live television reporting, for his coverage of a terrorist attack on the Turkish Embassy in Ottawa. He has received honorary degrees from his alma mater, the University of Prince Edward Island, and from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York. He has been a visiting fellow at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, and has been twice nominated for the "best in the business" award by the Washington Journalism Review.
Duffy is primarily known for his work as an Ottawa journalist, but he has been a foreign correspondent. He covered the collapse of the South Vietnamese regime in 1975 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and was one of the last journalists to leave Saigon before the arrival of North Vietnamese and Vietnamese nationalist forces.
In 1988 Duffy joined Baton Broadcasting as the first host of its Sunday morning news program Sunday Edition. When that series ended in 1999, Duffy moved to his current role as a show host and interviewer with CTV NewsNet.
On August 23, 2006, it was revealed that Duffy had undergone open heart surgery in the previous week. His mother Lillian Duffy said, "His operation was successful and he's home. We're all grateful he's making a good recovery". [1]
[edit] Awards
In 1994, Mike Duffy was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
