Francis D'Souza is a Canadian television executive and a former broadcaster. He is the Managing Editor of News Programming at

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, nationally, and a former television news anchor for

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Biography

D'Souza became interested in a career in television after being selected from Citytv's ''Lunch Television'' audience to perform the opening announcement on Queen Street. Prior to joining Citytv, D'Souza volunteered at Rogers Cable TV in Mississauga, his home town. He was chosen to host ''Plugged In!'' on

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. He was a production assistant with the

, a videographer at

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Toronto and for two years (2000-2002) in

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anchored the

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(

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) ''News at 11:30pm'' in Northern Ontario. At Toronto's Citytv, he co-anchored a weekend newscast with Merella Fernandez and co-anchored a noon newscast until that program was cut in January 2010. D'Souza anchored the 5 pm newscast from its inception in 2011 until May 2019. He also served as substitute anchor for morning program ''

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''. In June 2019 D’Souza joined CBC as Managing Editor of News Programming, overseeing the journalism, operation and strategic direction of ''The National'', ''World at 6'', ''World Report'', ''World this Weekend'', ''Front Burner'', and CBC News Specials.

Education

* B.A.A. 2000, Radio and Television Arts,

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D'Souza graduated from Clarkson Secondary School in 1996.

Awards

* 2019

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, Best Live News Special, City''News'' - #CityVote - The Debate * 2011

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, Best Breaking Reportage, Local, City''News'' - G20 Summit

References

External links

* Canadian television news anchors Canadian people of Indian descent Living people Canadian television reporters and correspondents Canadian people of Goan descent Year of birth missing (living people) {{canada-journalist-stub