Richard Zussman (born September 2, 1983) is a Canadian television reporter. He works for Global BC as an online journalist based at the

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. He is a former reporter for the CBC based in Victoria. He was dismissed as legislature reporter in early December 2017, for co-writing (with Rob Shaw) the book ''A Matter of Confidence'' about the fall of Christy Clark's British Columbia Liberal Party. He is a former TV personality on

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in Edmonton, where he served the political reporter/videographer for Breakfast Television and a former videojournalist and on-air

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for the Sun News Network in Vancouver.

Biography

Zussman was born and raised in

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, Ontario, where he became interested in politics at a young age. He received his undergraduate degree in political studies from

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in Kingston, Ontario in 2006. He went on to the

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, where he completed his master's in Broadcast Journalism. While at Syracuse, Zussman travelled to New Hampshire to cover the historic 2008 presidential primary for KUAR, an NPR radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas. He travelled with former Arkansas Governor

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on his campaign bus and reported on a group of Little Rock volunteers supporting Hillary Clinton who were left out in the cold after their hotel burned down. In the summer of 2008, Zussman worked in Washington, D.C., as a television reporter for KTAL in

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, Louisiana, covering the senate race between John Kennedy and incumbent Mary Landrieu. He also covered sports at WBNG-TV in

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. Zussman joined City Edmonton in November 2008. Zussman has also been involved with community philanthropic endeavours. In December 2018, he served as Lieutenant Governor of the 90th Session of the

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, a non-profit, non-denominational youth-run organization that combines education about the Westminster system of Parliament with the promotion of youth service in the community.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zussman, Richard 1983 births Living people Canadian male journalists Canadian television journalists CBC Television people Journalists from Ontario Queen's University at Kingston alumni Syracuse University alumni Mass media people from Ottawa