William John Morgan (1940 – 16 November 2020) was an

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journalist, best known as a television producer for

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Career

Morgan was born in

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, and immigrated to Canada from Great Britain in 1967. In the late 1960s, he was editor of the ''

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'' newspaper. He was producer of local news and current affairs program, ''24Hours'' on

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for its first season (1970–1971), and became Executive Producer in the second. Morgan was part of an internal CBC task force that met in July, 1979 to study moving '' The National'' to 10 p.m. Later that year he was also involved in the CRTC application for the proposed

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service. ''The National'' was moved to 10 p.m. in January 1982, however the application for a second CBC television network was denied in early 1981. In early 1982, Morgan was named director of news and current affairs of the CBC. He used this experience as a template to help create CBC's '' The Journal'' in the 1980s. In the early 1990s Morgan became the CBC's ombudsman. He died in

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References

External links

Organization of News Ombudsman - Article by Bill Morgan
Canadian television producers Canadian newspaper editors Canadian male journalists 1940 births 2020 deaths Australian emigrants to Canada {{Canada-tv-bio-stub