Peter Armstrong (journalist)
Peter Armstrong is the economics reporter for CBC News.
Armstrong was previously the host of World Report on CBC Radio. He has been a foreign correspondent for CBC Television and CBC Newsworld, based in Jerusalem. He covered the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. Armstrong was a parliamentary correspondent based on Parliament Hill. An award-winning journalist, he has covered three wars and reported in French and English from four continents.
Armstrong has reported from the frontlines in Afghanistan, embedded with Canadian, U.S. and British Troops. He has traveled extensively through the Middle East, reporting from Israel, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian Territories. He also reported live from Barack Obama's ancestral village in Kenya the night of the American presidential election in 2008.
Armstrong has worked in CBC locations across Canada, beginning in Quebec City with stops in Saint John, Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver. He has covered some of the biggest events of the last two decades including the tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster in Japan, three federal elections and the Sochi Olymics.
Originally from Oakville, Ont., Armstrong is bilingual in French and English, and speaks some Arabic. He is a graduate of Acadia University in Nova Scotia and completed his journalism studies at l'Universite Laval in Quebec City.
He is married to fellow journalist Piya Chattopadhyay, whom he met while both were working for the CBC.[1]
References
- ↑ Office romance is good for business, by Jasmine Budak, in Canadian Business; published May 7, 2012; retrieved May 1, 2014