Neil Herland

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Neil Herland (born November 16, 1975) is a Canadian journalist who covers the United Nations in New York for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Herland was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. He is a graduate of Canterbury High School where he was a member of the improv comedy group BOFA which competed in the Canadian Improv Games and won the Canadian national championship for best high school comedy improv team. Herland later graduated from Carleton University, where he received a bachelor of journalism degree with honours.

In 1994, he began working as a freelance journalist for the alternative weekly Ottawa XPress, while still a student. He also covered the Canadian Parliament for the Xtra! chain of newsmagazines. In 1996, at the age of 20, Herland was hired as a part-time television reporter by CJOH-TV the top-rated CTV station in Ottawa. Herland continued to report on-air for CJOH-TV after he graduated Carleton University. In October 1997, he was hired as a reporter by CBC Radio in Edmonton, Alberta. He later joined the CBC Television network. Over the years Herland has worked as a reporter, producer and news reader in Edmonton, Alberta, Regina, Saskatchewan, Fredericton, New Brunswick and Toronto, Ontario.

In 2005 he was appointed to run the one-person United Nations bureau of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He works behind the scenes as the bureau producer and on-air as a UN reporter for CBC Radio One, CBC Television, CBC Newsworld, Radio Canada International and the French-language networks La Première Chaîne, Télévision de Radio-Canada, and Réseau de l'information.