Tom Kennedy (born April 12, 1952) is a former Canadian television journalist, who was associated over the course of his career with both CBC News and CTV News."Tom Kennedy leaves CBC to become London-based correspondent for CTV". ''
Welland Tribune
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Newfoundland
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, Kennedy was educated at
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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The Globe and Mail
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'' as an editor and reporter. He then moved on to CBC News in 1976 where he spent the next twenty-five years.
He was one of the few Canadian journalists present when the crisis in Tiananmen Square hit in Beijing, in June 1989. He won the
Gemini Award
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for Best News Reportage at the
4th Gemini Awards
The 4th Gemini Awards were held in 1989 to honour achievements in Canadian television. It was broadcast on CBC.
Awards
Best Comedy Program or Series
* ''Codco''
Best Variety Program or Series
* ''The Comedy Mill''
* ''Pilot One''
* ''The Tommy ...
, for his coverage of Tiananmen Square. He later won a second Gemini Award for Best News Reportage at the
14th Gemini Awards
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in 1999.
In 2001, he became the CTV News bureau chief in London, England and spent the next dozen years covering major international events. Beginning in 2012, he was based out of Toronto, doing documentaries for CTV's newsmagazine series '' W5'', for which he won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Host or Interviewer in a News or Information Program or Series at the
Toronto Star
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