Eric Sorensen is a

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television journalist."Global News Appoints Eric Sorensen As New Washington Bureau Chief".

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, October 17, 2006. He has been the national affairs correspondent for '' Global National'' since early 2014, and previously served as

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bureau chief for ''Global National'', from November 2006 to 2014."Sorensen to run Global's Washington bureau". '' Windsor Star'', October 19, 2006. Sorensen was previously a reporter for

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's '' The National'' from 1992 until joining Global News in 2006. Born in Hearst,

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and raised in Port Colborne, Ontario,"New CBET anchor well-travelled". '' Windsor Star'', September 18, 1990. He began his broadcasting career in 1973 after graduating from the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute radio and television arts program. He worked for a variety of television and radio stations across Canada before joining the CBC's national news division, and was the first Canadian to receive the Benton Fellowship in Broadcast Journalism from the

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in 1984.

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Eric Sorenson biography - Global News
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