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CBC News is the division of the
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responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely
CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, p ...
, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. Founded in 1941 by the public broadcaster, CBC News is the largest news broadcaster in
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and has local, regional, and national broadcasts and stations. It frequently collaborates with its organizationally separate French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada Info.


History

The first CBC newscast was a bilingual radio report on November 2, 1936. The CBC News Service was inaugurated during World War II on January 1, 1941, when Dan McArthur, chief news editor, had Wells Ritchie prepare for the announcer Charles Jennings a national report at 8:00 pm. Previously, CBC relied on
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to provide it with wire copy for its news bulletins. Readers who followed Jennings were Lorne Greene, Frank Herbert and Earl Cameron. ''CBC News Roundup'' (French counterpart: ''La revue de l'actualité'') started on August 16, 1943, at 7:45 pm, being replaced by '' The World at Six'' on October 31, 1966. On English-language television the first newscast, part of '' CBC Newsmagazine'', was given on September 8, 1952, on CBLT (Toronto), the only English station then telecasting. Later that year ''CBC National News'' was introduced (anchors: Larry Henderson, Earl Cameron, Stanley Burke), then changing its name to '' The National'' in 1970. The CBC began delivering news online in 1996 via the Newsworld Online website. The CBC News Online site launched in 1998. In 2017, CBC News relaunched its flagship newscast, ''The National'', with four co-anchors based in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver and later two anchors Monday through Thursday and a single anchor on Friday and Sunday.


News output

In November 2023, the CBC joined with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and 69 media partners including Distributed Denial of Secrets and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and more than 270 journalists in 55 countries and territories to produce the ' Cyprus Confidential' report on the financial network which supports the regime of
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, mostly with connections to Cyprus, and showed Cyprus to have strong links with high-up figures in the Kremlin, some of whom have been sanctioned. Government officials including Cyprus president Nikos Christodoulides and European lawmakers began responding to the investigation's findings in less than 24 hours, calling for reforms and launching probes.


Television

The Television News section of CBC News is responsible for the news programs on
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and CBC News Network, including national news programs like '' The National'', '' Marketplace'', '' The Fifth Estate'', and ''The Investigators'' with Diana Swain. It is also responsible for '' The Weekly with Wendy Mesley'' until its cancellation in September 2020. They are also responsible for news, business, weather and sports information for
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's inflight entertainment.


Local

Most local newscasts on CBC Television are branded as ''CBC News: ity/province name', such as ''CBC News: Toronto at Six''. Local radio newscasts are heard on the half-hour during morning and afternoon drive shows and on the hour at other times during the day.


Radio

The Radio News section of CBC News produces on-the-hour updates for the CBC's national radio newscasts and provides content for regional updates. Major radio programs include '' World Report'', ''The World at Six'', '' The World This Hour'' and ''The World this Weekend''. The majority of news and information is aired on CBC Radio One. All newscasts are available on demand online, via apps or via voice-activated virtual assistants.


Online

CBC News Online is the CBC's CBC.ca news website. Launched in 1996, it was named one of the most popular news websites in Canada in 2012. The website provides regional, national, and international news coverage, and investigative, politics, business, arts and entertainment, investigative, politics, business, entertainment, Indigenous, health, science and tech news. An Opinion section was reintroduced in November 2016. Many reports are accompanied by podcasting, audio and video from the CBC's television and radio news services. CBC News content is available on multiple platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. In November 2022, the CBC launched CBC News Explore, a free ad-supported streaming television service.Noel Ransome
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In addition to existing CBC news and information programming, new original programming on the service includes ''About That'', a daily news and interview show hosted by Andrew Chang; ''Planet Wonder'', an environmental news series hosted by Johanna Wagstaffe; ''Big'', a documentary series about industry; and ''This Week in Canada'', which highlights local news stories from the CBC's local news bureaux in various cities.


Network

CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) is an English-language news channel owned and operated by the CBC. It began broadcasting on July 31, 1989, from several regional studios in Halifax, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary. It was revamped and relaunched as the CBC News Network in 2009 as part of a larger renewal of the CBC News division. Current programs include ''CBC News Now'' (based in Toronto with Heather Hiscox, Suhana Meharchand, Carole MacNeil, John Northcott, Andrew Nichols (weekdays) and Aarti Pole and Michael Serapio (weekends), '' Power & Politics'' (based in Ottawa with host David Cochrane), and '' The National'' (with Adrienne Arsenault (Toronto), Ian Hanomansing (Vancouver) and Rosemary Barton hosting the weekly ''At Issue'' panel (Ottawa)). The network dropped the four-anchor format on January 22, 2020, and had Arsenault and Chang co-anchor from Monday through Thursday with Hanomansing as solo anchor for the Friday and Sunday editions. Barton became the chief political correspondent for CBC News; she continues to host ''The Nationals weekly "At Issue" political panel along with her own politics based program, ''Rosemary Barton Live'' which airs on Sundays. In early 2023, CBC dropped the co-anchor format in favour of single anchor everyday. Adrienne Arsenault continues to host the show Monday through Thursday with Hanomansing hosting on Friday and Sunday.


Weather centre

In November 2005, the CBC News Weather Centre was established to cover
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and international weather, using in part data provided by
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. Claire Martin was hired to serve as the primary face of the Weather Centre. In April 2014, the national weather centre was effectively disbanded due to CBC budget cuts (Martin had left the CBC a few months prior). Weather presenters at local CBC stations were retained but with the added responsibility of supplying reports for '' The National'' and CBC News Network. In November 2014, citing difficulties implementing this new system, the CBC announced a one-year trial content sharing partnership with The Weather Network, the privately owned cable specialty channel, which went into effect on December 8. Under the partnership, in exchange for access to weather-related news coverage from the CBC, The Weather Network provides the national weather reports seen on ''The National'' and CBCNN daytime programming, as well as local forecasts for CBC Toronto's weekend newscasts. Apart from Toronto, weather coverage during local newscasts was not affected, and CBC Vancouver meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe continues to provide weather coverage for the Vancouver-based (primetime) editions of '' CBC News Now'' on CBC News Network. Most local CBC stations have retained their weather team to provide local weather information, including: * Johanna Wagstaffe – CBC Vancouver meteorologist * John Sauder – CBC Manitoba meteorologist * Jay Scotland – CBC PEI meteorologist * Karen Johnson – CBC Toronto and Windsor weather specialist * Catherine Verdon-Diamond – CBC Montreal weather specialist * Tanara McLean – CBC Edmonton/Calgary weather specialist The content partnership with the Weather Network has continued beyond the original one-year period; the partnership has also been expanded. The weather section of CBC.ca has been phased out in favour of forecasts from The Weather Network; further, local CBC news headlines are displayed on the latter's website.


Programming


Television

CBC News provides the following television programs. Current programs: *'' The National'', flagship news program *'' CBC News Now'' *'' The Fifth Estate'', weekly news magazine *'' Marketplace'', consumer news magazine *'' Power & Politics'', political news program *''The Investigators with Diana Swain'' * Local newscasts *Documentary series '' Doc Zone'', '' The Passionate Eye'', CBC Docs POV and '' The Nature of Things'' air on CBC News Network but are not produced by CBC News. *'' Rosemary Barton Live'', Sunday news program replacing '' The Weekly with Wendy Mesley'' *'' Hanomansing Tonight'', weekday news program replacing ''Canada Tonight'' Former programs: *'' CBC News Magazine'' (1952–81) *'' The Journal'' (1982–92) *'' CBC Prime Time News'' (1992–1995) *'' Mansbridge One on One'' (1999–2017) *'' The Exchange'' (2009–2016) *'' On the Money'', business news program (2016–2018) *'' The Weekly with Wendy Mesley'' (2018–2020) *'' Canada Tonight'', weekday news program, premiered with Ginella Massa as host, with Dwight Drummond as temporary host from October 2022 while Massa was on parental leave, and then Travis Dhanraj as permanent host January 2024 following Massa's departure from CBC.


Radio

CBC News provides the following radio programs. *'' World Report'', morning newscast *''The World This Hour'', hourly newscast *'' The World at Six'', national dinner-hour newscast *''The World This Weekend'' *'' The House'', weekly national political affairs show *Local newscasts


Digital

CBC Digital provides the following services: * CBCNews.ca website and Digital News App * Live and on-demand streaming of radio and TV news programming * Podcasts (broadcast highlights and original content like '' Finding Cleo'') * Social media including Facebook. Instagram and Snapchat. CBC News Twitter feed has over 2.5M followers. * Digital delivery of CBC News in airports, trains, elevators and coffee chain


Bias allegations

Public surveys in 2002 suggest that the CBC was viewed with potential left-wing bias. In 2009, CBC President Hubert Lacroix commissioned a study to determine whether its news was biased, and if so, to what extent. He said: "Our job — and we take it seriously — is to ensure that the information that we put out is fair and unbiased in everything that we do." The study suggests Canadians perceived the CBC as having a more left-of-centre bias than other Canadian news organizations. A 2017 survey of Canadians suggested that CBC TV was the most biased national news media outlet (perceived biased by 50% of Canadians overall, tied with ''The Globe and Mail'') followed closely by CBC Radio (perceived biased by 49% of Canadians overall). Respondents, especially those from Alberta, predominantly saw a bias towards CBC TV and radio coverage favouring the Liberal party, a view that held consistently across Conservative, Liberal and NDP voters.


Hall of Fame

The CBC News Hall of Fame was established in 2015 to honour men and women who have shaped Canadian journalism. Located in CBC's Toronto headquarters, inductees include: * 2015 – Knowlton Nash * 2016 – Joe Schlesinger * 2017 – Barbara Frum * 2018 – Trina McQueen * 2019 – Matthew Halton and Peter Stursberg * 2020 – Ernest Tucker * 2021 – Rassi Nashalik


Ombudsman

The CBC sets out to maintain its accuracy, integrity and fairness in its journalism. As a Canadian institution and a press undertaking, the CBC set out the Journalistic Standards and Practices and works in compliance with these principles. Balanced viewpoints must be presented through on-the-air discussions. As it is with other public and private journalistic undertakings, credibility in the eyes of the general population is seen as the corporation's most valuable asset. The CBC Ombudsman is completely independent of CBC program staff and management, reporting directly to the President of the CBC and, through the President, to the corporation's board of directors.


Bureaus

CBC has reporters stationed in the following cities. Main cities are listed with the notation (M). * Whitehorse, Yukon (M) *
Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Gre ...
*
Vancouver Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...
, British Columbia (M) *
Kamloops Kamloops ( ) is a city in south-central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the North Thompson River, North and South Thompson Rivers, which join to become the Thompson River in Kamloops, and east of Kamloops Lake. The city is the ad ...
, British Columbia *
Kelowna Kelowna ( ) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan, Okanagan Valley in the British Columbia Interior, southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna ...
, British Columbia * Nelson, British Columbia * Prince George, British Columbia * Prince Rupert, British Columbia *
Yellowknife Yellowknife is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of t ...
, Northwest Territories (M) * Inuvik, Northwest Territories *
Calgary Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in C ...
, Alberta (M) *
Edmonton Edmonton is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Central Alberta ...
, Alberta (M) * Fort McMurray, Alberta * Grande Prairie, Alberta * Lethbridge, Alberta *
Saskatoon Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Hig ...
, Saskatchewan *
Regina, Saskatchewan Regina ( ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province, and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. As of the 2021 Canadian census, ...
(M) *
Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. It is centred on the confluence of the Red River of the North, Red and Assiniboine River, Assiniboine rivers. , Winnipeg h ...
, Manitoba (M) * Brandon, Manitoba *
Thunder Bay Thunder Bay is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario and the second most populous (after Greater Sudbury) municipality in Northern Ontario. Its population i ...
, Ontario *
Windsor, Ontario Windsor ( ) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is situated on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from the U.S city of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Esse ...
(M) *
London, Ontario London is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River (Ontario), Thames River and N ...
* Sudbury, Ontario *
Kingston, Ontario Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the northeastern end of Lake Ontario. It is at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River, the south end of the Rideau Canal. Kingston is near the Thousand Islands, ...
* Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario *
Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a 2021 Canadian census, population of 569,353 (2021), and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which encompasses ...
*
Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...
, Ontario (M) *
Ottawa Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the cor ...
, Ontario (M) *
Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...
, Quebec (M) *
Quebec City Quebec City is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) had a populati ...
, Quebec (M) *
Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( , ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François River, Saint-François and Magog River, Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territ ...
, Quebec *
Fredericton Fredericton (; ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of New Brunswick. The city is situated in the west-central portion of the province along the Saint John River (Bay of Fundy), Saint John River, ...
, New Brunswick (M) *
Saint John, New Brunswick Saint John () is a port#seaport, seaport city located on the Bay of Fundy in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. It is Canada's oldest Municipal corporation, incorporated city, established by royal charter on May 18, 1785, during the reign ...
* Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador *
Moncton Moncton (; ) is the most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of New Brunswick. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, Moncton lies at the geographic centre of the The Maritimes, Maritime Provinces. Th ...
, New Brunswick * Bathurst, New Brunswick *
Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax is the capital and most populous municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of 2024, it is estimated that the population of the H ...
(M) *
Charlottetown Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlott ...
,
Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island is an island Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. While it is the smallest province by land area and population, it is the most densely populated. The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", ...
(M) * Sydney, Nova Scotia * Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador * Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador * St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (M) * Iqaluit,
Nunavut Nunavut is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' and the Nunavut Land Claims Agr ...
Currently vacant: * Thompson, Manitoba * Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador * Hay River, Northwest Territories


International

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London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...
, United Kingdom (M) *
Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...
, Israel (M) * Washington, D.C., United States (M) *
New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...
, United States (M) *
Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...
, United States


Former

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, Russia (closed May 2022) *
Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
, China (closed November 2022; English-language posting vacant since 2020) CBC also uses satellite bureaus, with reporters who fly in when a story occurs outside the bureaus. In the late 1990s, the CBC and other media outlets cut back their overseas operations.


Foreign correspondents

* London – Margaret Evans, Chris Brown, and Jared Thomas * Jerusalem – Derek Stoffel * Washington, D.C. – Paul Hunter/ Katie Simpson with Matt Kwong, Ellen Mauro, and Lyndsay Duncombe * New York – Kris Reyes * Los Angeles –


See also

* List of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation personalities *
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References


External links


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