Gloria Macarenko, is a

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television and radio

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. From 1989 until 2014, she was the longtime host or co-host of CBC Vancouver's supper-hour television newscast at 5:00 or 6:00. She later hosted the

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local program '' B.C. Almanac'' and the national

documentary series '' The Story from Here''. In January 2018 she took over as the host of ''On The Coast'', CBC Radio One's daily afternoon program in the Vancouver area. Macarenko has been a guest anchor on '' The National'' and ''

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'' on

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Early life and career

Macarenko was raised in

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and graduated from

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. Her first broadcasting job was reading the news after school on weekdays and weekend mornings for CHTK Radio, Prince Rupert. She studied journalism at the

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(BCIT). On graduating from BCIT, Macarenko worked for two years as a beat reporter for

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Radio in Vancouver. In her first two years in radio she interviewed then-Prime Minister

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and covered the trial of serial killer

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. Following the Olson trial, she spent four years in Spain and France, studying languages and art history and teaching English. She returned to Canada in 1989 and was hired by CBC TV in Vancouver.

Awards and honours

As a journalist with twenty years of experience, she has been nominated for, and won, many awards including a

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for Best News Reporting in 2002, a

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for Best Anchor in a News Program in 2004 (shared with

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). She has been nominated twice for the

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for "Best News Anchor" in Canada. On September 2, 1998, while acting as anchor on ''The National,'' Macarenko first reported news of the crash of SwissAir Flight 111 near

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. Her five-hour marathon broadcast of this event earned her the Radio and Television Directors' Association (RTNDA) and Gemini awards for "Best Live News Coverage." She also hosted the RTNDA award-winning "News Day in BC" student journalism special.Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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in December 2018.

Personal life

Macarenko serves the Vancouver community as a volunteer and host for organizations such as Arts Umbrella, Dr. Peter Centre, Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation and Westcoast LEAF. In 2005 she was named one of TVWeek's 10 Most Beautiful People in B.C. She was "Miss PNE" in 1978.Pegrim, S. (2011)
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References

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