Kevin Newman (born June 2, 1959) is a

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journalist and news anchor. From 2001 to 2010, he was the chief anchor and executive editor of ''

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''. In August 2014, he became a substitute anchor of '' CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme'' and in September 2016 was named host and managing editor of the weekly Investigative program '' W5''. He is co-author of ''All Out'', a memoir written with his son Alex.

Life and career

Newman was born in

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. He began his career in broadcasting at CHRW radio in

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, becoming the first news director and working on

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football broadcasts as the campus station of the

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formally organized. After graduating, he landed his first job as a reporter for Global Ontario in 1981. In 1986, he moved to

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as the network's

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correspondent, and in 1988 he joined

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as a reporter and anchor, hosting '' Midday'' from 1992 to 1994. He was also a substitute anchor on '' The National''. In 1994, Newman moved to

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in the United States, where he anchored '' ABC World News Now'' until 1996. He also anchored '' ABC World News This Morning'', and served as a correspondent for '' World News Tonight''. In June 1997,

assigned Newman as newsreader of ''

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'' after the departure of Elizabeth Vargas. In May 1998, he was named co-anchor, with Lisa McRee, of ''Good Morning America''. The show, which had been struggling in the ratings, continued to perform poorly, and both McRee and Newman were reassigned in January 1999 to other reporting duties within ABC, with Newman becoming a correspondent for ''

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'' and as a substitute anchor for

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and Carole Simpson on both the weeknight and Sunday editions of ''World News Tonight''. Newman anchored breaking news coverage of the death of

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. In 2001, Global Television launched '' Global National with Kevin Newman'', and hired Newman as its first anchor and executive editor. Newman received the

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for Best News Anchor in 2005 and 2006. Newman, along with ''Global National'''s Kenton Boston, Doriana Temolo, Marc Riddell and Jason Keel won the Gemini Award for Best Newscast in 2007. Newman is the founder of NewMan Media Ltd. In April 2010, Newman announced his resignation from Global Television, effective August 30, 2010. Dawna Friesen was named as his successor on July 13, 2010, and made her on-air debut on September 20, 2010. In 2011, Newman was appointed to the board of directors of Communitech, an association representing tech companies in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. In August 2012, CTV News announced Newman would become the host of '' Question Period'' and a regular contributor to its investigative series '' W5''. Newman also serves as 'Digital News Evangelist' for Bell Media. In August 2013 CTV News announced that Newman would host a new prime time show on CTV News Channel called ''Kevin Newman Live'', which premiered on November 18, 2013. The show was cancelled seven months later. In late 2014, Newman became a fill-in anchor for the flagship newscast ''

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'', and in September 2016 was named host and managing editor of the weekly Investigative program ''W5''. As of September 2019, Newman has retired from network television, and now operates his own business, Kevin Newman Ideas, that produces TV shows, specials, and documentaries.

Personal life

On June 13, 2011, Newman received an honorary

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degree from the

. Newman is married to Cathy Kearns, and the couple have two children: a son, Alex and a daughter, Erica. In 2015, Newman and his son Alex published ''All Out: A Father and Son Confront the Hard Truths That Made Them Better Men'', a cowritten memoir of their relationship before and after Alex came out as gay at age 17."How a son’s coming out helped heal a fractured relationship"
''

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'', October 1, 2015.

References

External links

Kevin Newman Live
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