Don Newman

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Don Newman, C.M. LL.D is the senior parliamentary editor for CBC Television. He is also the host of CBC Newsworld's daily politics program CBC News: Politics.

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 short period after the sudden death of his only child, Linc, during a routine wisdom teeth removal when his son was home for spring break from Queens University. His wife, Audrey Ann, died of breast cancer two and a half years later. He is now married to Shannon Day of Edmonton. They live in Ottawa.

He has also anchored major political events that affect Canadians on CBC Newsworld. Some of them include:

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 his daily politics program is based.

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. On September 14, 2007 at a special convocation honoring the 40th Anniversary of his alma mater, The University of Winnipeg conferred on him an Honourary Doctor of Laws degree.

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