Dana Lewis is a Canadian News Correspondent based in London, and the host of podcast BACK STORY. He is also a reporter appearing on TRT World, LBC Radio. ABC News Australia, and numerous American radio programs. He was formerly with Fox News, NBC News, CBS News, CBC News and CTV National News Canada. He was also a contributor to Al Jazeera America reporting on the Paris attacks, the election in Ukraine, the 70th anniversary of D-Day, and current developments in Iraq. He is currently a frequent commentator/Correspondent on TRTWORLD and other outlets. Based in London he is completely independent. He has completed half hour shows in depth reports, as a host and reporter on such complex issues as BREXIT, Nuclear issues, and American Foreign Policy. Lewis has covered the World including the current war in the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

, the hotel suicide bombings in

Amman, Jordan Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 as of 2021, Amman is ...

, and updates following the London terrorist attacks. In 2003, Lewis was an embedded reporter with the 101st Airborne in Iraq; he was also embedded with U.S. forces along the Pakistan border and in Helmand Province. Lewis is considered an expert on Russia having lived there for 12 years. He has covered China, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe. He speaks English and Russian.

History

Lewis was born in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...

. He attended

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

and the

Fanshawe College Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology, commonly shortened to Fanshawe College, is a public college in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. One of the largest colleges in Canada, it has campuses in London, Simcoe, St. Thomas and Woodstock w ...

Broadcast Journalism program. He is a graduate of The Fanshawe College Journalism program. Prior to joining Al Jazeera and Fox News, Lewis worked for a number of different news programs and networks, including ''

NBC Nightly News ''NBC Nightly News'' (titled as ''NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt'' for its weeknight broadcasts since June 22, 2015) is the flagship daily evening News broadcasting#Television, television news program for NBC News, the news division of the NB ...

'', ''

CTV News CTV News is the news division of the CTV Television Network in Canada. The name ''CTV News'' is also applied as the title of local and regional newscasts on the network's owned-and-operated stations (O&Os), which are closely tied to the national ...

'' and ''

CBC News 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 Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. ...

'', and was a crime reporter for

CFTR Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a membrane protein and anion channel in vertebrates that is encoded by the ''CFTR'' gene. Geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his team identified the CFTR gene in 1989 as the gene linked wit ...

/ CHFI Radio in

. Dana anchored the CTV National News and was Prime Time anchor of the 24 hour News Channel. He was also the main 6 o clock anchor for CBC News Edmonton. Later, he became a National News Report in Canada for CTV first based in Edmonton, then Toronto and then overseas. During the 1990s, Lewis was the

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

-based Middle East Bureau Chief/Correspondent for CTV. He was based in Jerusalem for 6 full years. Later while working for NBC he came under fire while in a car in

Ramallah Ramallah ( , ; ar, رام الله, , God's Height) is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank that serves as the ''de facto'' administrative capital of the State of Palestine. It is situated on the Judaean Mountains, north of Jerusale ...

during the

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i siege of

Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

's compound, and narrowly escaped injury. He also covered the invasion of

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

by U.S. forces, and the first

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: ...

. He was embedded with the 101st Airborne Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 reporting for NBC News and DateLine NBC and MSNBC. Lewis was one of the first reporters to enter Afghanistan after September 11 and has been embedded with the 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain division in Afghanistan, the 101st Airborne and U.S. Marines there.

Awards and recognitions

Dana Lewis has an Emmy nomination for a story on Russian orphans, and the prestigious Overseas Press Club award for War in Kosovo. He also holds various RTNDA awards. And was honored for his coverage of the Kursk Submarine disaster in Russia. He was featured in Robin Moore's (French Connection) new book ''Hunting Down Saddam". He also was a guest lecturer at the Prestigious U.S. Naval War College on media affairs. Lewis was one of the first reporters to interview General

David Petraeus David Howell Petraeus (; born November 7, 1952) is a retired United States Army general and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012. Prior to h ...

(Later Director of the CIA) and followed him through the Iraq War's early days. Lewis has interviewed President Putin and is one of the longest serving western reporters to be based in Russia. He also interviewed among others King Hussein of Jordan, Israeli leader Netanyahu, and

Shimon Peres Shimon Peres (; he, שמעון פרס ; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president of ...

. Lewis has earned recognition for a number of different stories he has covered in his career, including Overseas Press Club awards for his coverage of the

war in Kosovo The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war ...

and the Kursk submarine disaster in

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

. He was nominated for an

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

for coverage of Russian Orphans, and has also received various

RTNDA The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA, pronounced the same as " rotunda"), formerly the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), is a United States-based membership organization of radio, television, and online news dire ...

awards for spot news coverage. The Dana Lewis Front Line Award is annually presented to graduating journalism students. story.

Personal life

Dana Lewis is married to Victoria. They have two sons, Aleks and Daniel.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Dana Living people Canadian television journalists Journalists from Toronto 1959 births