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CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely
CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...
, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. Founded in 1941, CBC News is the largest news broadcaster in Canada and has local, regional, and national broadcasts and stations. It frequently collaborates with its organizationally separate French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada Info.


History

The first CBC newscast was a bilingual radio report on November 2, 1936. The CBC News Service was inaugurated during World War II on January 1, 1941, when Dan McArthur, chief news editor, had Wells Ritchie prepare for the announcer Charles Jennings a national report at 8:00 pm. Readers who followed Jennings were Lorne Greene, Frank Herbert and Earl Cameron. ''CBC News Roundup'' (French counterpart: ''La revue de l'actualité'') started on August 16, 1943, at 7:45 pm, being replaced by ''
The World at Six ''The World at Six'' is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship dinner-hour radio news program, airing Monday to Friday from 6 to 6:28 p.m. local time on CBC Radio One except in Newfoundland where it begins at 6:30. The program was l ...
'' on October 31, 1966. On English-language television the first newscast, part of '' CBC Newsmagazine'', was given on September 8, 1952, on CBLT (Toronto), the only English station then telecasting. Later that year ''CBC National News'' was introduced (anchors:
Larry Henderson Larry Henderson (September 4, 1917 – November 26, 2006) was the first regular newsreader on the CBC Television's ''The National News'', later rebranded as ''CBC News: The National, The National'', from 1954 to 1959. He was born in Montreal, Q ...
, Earl Cameron,
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), then changing its name to '' The National'' in 1970. CBC began delivering news online in 1996 via the Newsworld Online website. The CBC News Online site launched in 1998. In 2016, the site was renamed CBC Indigenous. In 2017, CBC News relaunched its flagship newscast, ''The National'', with four co-anchors based in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver and later two anchors Monday through Thursday and a single anchor on Friday and Sunday.


News output


Television

The Television News section of CBC News is responsible for the news programs on
CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...
and CBC News Network, including national news programs like '' The National'', '' Marketplace'', '' The Fifth Estate'', and ''The Investigators'' with Diana Swain. It is also responsible for '' The Weekly with Wendy Mesley'' until its cancellation in September 2020. They are also responsible for news, business, weather and sports information for Air Canada's inflight entertainment.


Local

Most local newscasts on CBC Television are branded as ''CBC News: ity/province name', such as ''CBC News: Toronto at Six''. Local radio newscasts are heard on the half-hour during morning and afternoon drive shows and on the hour at other times during the day.


Radio

The Radio News section of CBC News produces on-the-hour updates for the CBC's national radio newscasts and provides content for regional updates. Major radio programs include '' World Report'', ''The World at Six'', '' The World This Hour'' and ''The World this Weekend''. The majority of news and information is aired on CBC Radio One. All newscasts are available on demand online, via apps or via voice-activated virtual assistants.


Online

CBC News Online is the CBC's CBC.ca news website. Launched in 1996, it was named one of the most popular news websites in Canada in 2012. The website provides regional, national, and international news coverage, and investigative, politics, business, arts and entertainment, investigative, politics, business, entertainment, Indigenous, health, science and tech news. An Opinion section was reintroduced in November 2016. Many reports are accompanied by podcasting, audio and video from the CBC's television and radio news services. CBC News content is available on multiple platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. In November 2022, the CBC launched CBC News Explore, a free ad-supported streaming television service.Noel Ransome
"CBC launches free ad-supported streaming channel CBC News Explore"
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'', November 30, 2022.
In addition to existing CBC news and information programming, new original programming on the service includes ''About That'', a daily news and interview show hosted by
Andrew Chang Andrew Chang (born 15 December 1982) is a Canadian television journalist, best known as a co-anchor of CBC Television's nightly flagship newscast '' The National''. Early life Chang was born on 15 December 1982 in Ottawa and graduated from Ca ...
; ''Planet Wonder'', an environmental news series hosted by
Johanna Wagstaffe Johanna is a feminine name, a variant form of Joanna that originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, including an -h- by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The original Greek form ''Iōanna'' lacks a medial /h/ because in Greek /h/ cou ...
; ''Big'', a documentary series about industry; and ''This Week in Canada'', which highlights local news stories from the CBC's local news bureaux in various cities.


Network

CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) is an English-language news channel owned and operated by the CBC. It began broadcasting on July 31, 1989, from several regional studios in Halifax, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary. It was revamped and relaunched as the CBC News Network in 2009 as part of a larger renewal of the CBC News division. Current programs include ''CBC News Now'' (based in Toronto with Heather Hiscox, Suhana Meharchand, Carole MacNeil, John Northcott, Andrew Nichols (weekdays) and Aarti Pole and Michael Serapio (weekends), '' Power & Politics'' (based in Ottawa with host Vassy Kapelos), and '' The National'' (with Adrienne Arsenault, Ian Hanomansing (Toronto), Andrew Chang (Vancouver) and Rosemary Barton (Ottawa)). The network dropped the four-anchor format on January 22, 2020, and had Arsenault and Chang co-anchor from Monday through Thursday with Hanomansing as solo anchor for the Friday and Sunday editions. Barton became the chief political correspondent for CBC News; she continues to host ''The Nationals weekly "At Issue" political panel.


Weather centre

In November 2005, the CBC News Weather Centre was established to cover local and international weather, using in part data provided by
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. Claire Martin was hired to serve as the primary face of the Weather Centre. In April 2014, the national weather centre was effectively disbanded due to CBC budget cuts (Martin had left the CBC a few months prior); weather presenters at local CBC stations were retained but with the added responsibility of supplying reports for '' The National'' and CBC News Network. In November 2014, citing difficulties implementing this new system, CBC announced a one-year trial content sharing partnership with The Weather Network, the privately owned cable specialty channel, which went into effect on December 8. Under the partnership, in exchange for access to weather-related news coverage from the CBC, The Weather Network provides the national weather reports seen on ''The National'' and CBCNN daytime programming, as well as local forecasts for CBC Toronto's weekend newscasts. Apart from Toronto, weather coverage during local newscasts was not affected, and CBC Vancouver meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe continues to provide weather coverage for the Vancouver-based (primetime) editions of '' CBC News Now'' on CBC News Network. Most local CBC stations have retained their weather team to provide local weather information, including: * Johanna Wagstaffe – CBC Vancouver meteorologist * Ian Black – CBC Ottawa meteorologist * John Sauder – CBC Manitoba meteorologist * Jay Scotland – CBC PEI meteorologist * Karen Johnson – CBC Toronto and Windsor weather specialist * Catherine Verdon-Diamond – CBC Montreal weather specialist * Tanara McLean – CBC Edmonton/Calgary weather specialist The content partnership with the Weather Network has continued beyond the original one-year period, and has been expanded. The weather section of CBC.ca has been phased out in favour of forecasts from The Weather Network, and local CBC news headlines are displayed on the latter's website.


Programming


Television

CBC News provides the following television programs. Current programs: *'' The National'', flagship news program *'' CBC News Now'' *'' The Fifth Estate'', weekly news magazine *'' Marketplace'', consumer news magazine *'' Power & Politics'', political news program *''The Investigators with Diana Swain'' * Local newscasts *Documentary series '' Doc Zone'', '' The Passionate Eye'', CBC Docs POV and '' The Nature of Things'' air on CBC News Network but are not produced by CBC News. *''
Rosemary Barton Live ''Rosemary Barton Live'' is a Canadian television Sunday morning talk show, which premiered November 1, 2020 on CBC News Network and CBC Television. Hosted by Rosemary Barton, it is a live news and talk show covering political topics. The serie ...
,'' Sunday news program replacing '' The Weekly with Wendy Mesley'' *
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, weekday news program Former programs: *'' CBC News Magazine'' (1952–81) *'' The Journal'' (1982–92) *'' CBC Prime Time News'' (1992–1995) *''
Mansbridge One on One ''Mansbridge One on One'' was a weekly TV program on CBC Television featuring CBC's News' chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge who is a 12-time Gemini Award recipient and officer of the Order of Canada. The program began airing in 1999, and ha ...
'' (1999–2017) *'' The Exchange'' (2009–2016) *'' On the Money'', business news program (2016–2018) *'' The Weekly with Wendy Mesley'' (2018–2020)


Radio

CBC News provides the following radio programs. *'' World Report'', morning newscast *''The World This Hour'', hourly newscast *''
The World at Six ''The World at Six'' is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship dinner-hour radio news program, airing Monday to Friday from 6 to 6:28 p.m. local time on CBC Radio One except in Newfoundland where it begins at 6:30. The program was l ...
'', national dinner-hour newscast *''The World This Weekend'' *'' The House'', weekly national political affairs show *Local newscasts


Digital

CBC Digital provides the following services: * CBCNews.ca website and Digital News App * Live and on-demand streaming of radio and TV news programming * Podcasts (broadcast highlights and original content like Finding Cleo) * Social media including Facebook. Instagram and Snapchat. CBC News Twitter feed has over 2.5M followers. * Digital delivery of CBC News in airports, trains, elevators and coffee chain


Bias allegations

Public surveys in 2002 suggest that the CBC was viewed as less objective than other Canadian news networks, with results suggesting potential left-wing bias. In 2009, CBC President Hubert Lacroix commissioned a study to determine whether its news was biased, and if so, to what extent. He said: "Our job — and we take it seriously — is to ensure that the information that we put out is fair and unbiased in everything that we do." The study suggests Canadians perceived the CBC as having a more left-of-centre bias than other Canadian news organizations. A 2017 survey of Canadians suggested that CBC TV was the most biased national news media outlet (perceived biased by 50% of Canadians overall, tied with ''The Globe and Mail'') followed closely by CBC Radio (perceived biased by 49% of Canadians overall). Respondents predominantly saw a bias towards CBC TV and radio coverage favouring the Liberal party, a view that held consistently across Conservative, Liberal and NDP voters. In October 2019, two weeks before the
2019 Canadian federal election The 2019 Canadian federal election was held on October 21, 2019. Member of Parliament (Canada), Members of the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons were elected to the 43rd Canadian Parliament. In keeping with the Fixed election dates in ...
, the CBC sued the Conservative Party of Canada for using excerpts from its leaders' debates in campaign material. The CBC petitioned for an
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against the party continuing to use the excerpts as well as seeking an acknowledgement from the Conservative Party and its executive director, Dustin Van Vugt, that the party had "engaged in the unauthorized use of copyright-protected material". In response, the Conservative Party stated that 17 seconds of footage had been used, the video in question had been removed before the lawsuit was filed, and expressed "grave concern that this decision was made on the eve of an election that CBC is to be covering fairly and objectively". The CBC's lawsuit was dismissed in federal court decision that found that the Conservative Party's use was allowable and falls under fair dealing. In January 2022, journalist Tara Henley publicly explained that she had left the CBC, saying that it has a "radical political agenda" that focuses too much on racial issues while ignoring important community and economic issues.


Hall of Fame

The CBC News Hall of Fame was established in 2015 to honour men and women who have shaped Canadian journalism. Located in CBC's Toronto headquarters, inductees include: * 2015 – Knowlton Nash * 2016 – Joe Schlesinger * 2017 – Barbara Frum * 2018 – Trina McQueen * 2019 – Matthew Halton and Peter Stursberg * 2020 – Ernest Tucker * 2021 – Rassi Nashalik


Ombudsman

The CBC sets out to maintain its accuracy, integrity and fairness in its journalism. As a Canadian institution and a press undertaking, CBC set out the Journalistic Standards and Practices and works in compliance with these principles. Balanced viewpoints must be presented through on-the-air discussions. As it is with other public and private journalistic undertakings, credibility in the eyes of the general population is seen as the corporation's most valuable asset. The CBC Ombudsman is completely independent of CBC program staff and management, reporting directly to the President of the CBC and, through the President, to the corporation's board of directors.


Bureaus

CBC has reporters stationed in the following cities. Main cities are listed with the notation (M). * Whitehorse, Yukon (M) * Victoria, British Columbia * Vancouver, British Columbia (M) *
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, British Columbia *
Kelowna Kelowna ( ) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from the Okanagan word ''ki ...
, British Columbia * Nelson, British Columbia *
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, British Columbia *
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, British Columbia * Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (M) *
Inuvik Inuvik (''place of man'') is the only town in the Inuvik Region, and the third largest community in Canada's Northwest Territories. Located in what is sometimes called the Beaufort Delta Region, it serves as its administrative and service cen ...
, Northwest Territories *
Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
, Alberta (M) * Edmonton, Alberta (M) * Fort McMurray, Alberta * Grande Prairie, Alberta *
Lethbridge Lethbridge ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. With a population of 101,482 in its 2019 Alberta municipal censuses, 2019 municipal census, Lethbridge became the fourth Alberta city to surpass 100,000 people. The nearby Canadian ...
, Alberta * Saskatoon, Saskatchewan * Regina, Saskatchewan (M) * Winnipeg, Manitoba (M) *
Brandon, Manitoba Brandon () is the second-largest city in the province of Manitoba, Canada. It is located in the southwestern corner of the province on the banks of the Assiniboine River, approximately west of the provincial capital, Winnipeg, and east of the ...
* Thunder Bay, Ontario * Windsor, Ontario (M) * London, Ontario *
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, Ontario * Kingston, Ontario *
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, Ontario * Hamilton, Ontario * Toronto, Ontario (M) *
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, Ontario (M) * Montreal, Quebec (M) * Quebec City, Quebec (M) * Sherbrooke, Quebec *
Fredericton Fredericton (; ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The city is situated in the west-central portion of the province along the Saint John River, which flows west to east as it bisects the city. The river is the do ...
, New Brunswick (M) * Saint John, New Brunswick * Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador *
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, New Brunswick * Bathurst, New Brunswick * Halifax, Nova Scotia (M) *
Charlottetown Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in ...
, Prince Edward Island (M) *
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*
Corner Brook Corner Brook ( 2021 population: 19,333 CA 29,762) is a city located on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Corner Brook is the fifth largest settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador. ...
, Newfoundland and Labrador * Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador *
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. The city spans and is the easternmost city in North America ...
(M) * Iqaluit,
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Currently vacant: * Thompson, Manitoba * Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador *
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, Northwest Territories


International

* London, United Kingdom (M) * Jerusalem, Israel (M) * Beijing, China (M) * Washington, D.C., United States (M) * New York City, United States (M) * Los Angeles, United States * Moscow, Russia CBC also uses satellite bureaus, with reporters who fly in when a story occurs outside the bureaus. In the late 1990s, the CBC and other media outlets cut back their overseas operations.


Foreign correspondents

* London – Margaret Evans, Chris Brown, and Jared Thomas * Jerusalem – Derek Stoffel *Beijing – Saša Petricic * Washington, D.C. – Paul Hunter/
Katie Simpson Katie Simpson is a Canadians, Canadian journalist who is currently a foreign correspondent for CBC News based in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. Education Simpson holds a bachelor's degree in media, information and techno culture from Weste ...
with Matt Kwong, Ellen Mauro, and Lyndsay Duncombe * New York – Kris Reyes * Los Angeles – * Moscow –


See also

*
List of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation personalities This is a list of notable past and present personalities associated with the television and radio arms of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. A * Roger Abbott, late member of '' Royal Canadian Air Farce'' *Vik Adhopia, reporter covering af ...
* CNN


References


External links


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