Janis Mackey Frayer (born May 27, 1970) is a

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and a correspondent with

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based in

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. Previously she worked in Canada with CTV as its Asia Bureau Chief. She was the network's Middle East Bureau Chief in

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, from 2003 to 2009 and South Asia Bureau Chief in

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from 2009 to 2013. Mackey Frayer holds a master's degree in International Relations from the

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. She studied

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and

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at the

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. Her career began at

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Radio in

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, and at age 19 she worked at YTV. She was later a financial news anchor with BNN and wrote a regular business column for The Globe and Mail newspaper. She is married to photojournalist Kevin Frayer and they have one son.

Awards and honours

Janis Mackey Frayer was awarded the Canadian Screen Award for Best Reportage for her coverage of the

2014 Israel–Gaza conflict The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge ( he, מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, translit=Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, ), was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territories, Pale ...

, the United Nations/UNDPI Gold Medal at the 2010 New York Festivalshttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-York-Festivals-iw-185316893.html?x=0&.v=1 and also won World Gold in the category of Human Interest. She then served as a member of the NYF Grand Jury from 2011 to 2014. She has earned two

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nominations for Best Reportage and two

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Awards for News.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Frayer, Janis Mackey 1970 births Living people Canadian expatriates in China Canadian expatriates in India Canadian expatriates in the United Kingdom Canadian television reporters and correspondents University of Toronto alumni American women journalists Canadian women television journalists CTV Television Network people Canadian Screen Award winning journalists 21st-century American women