David McGuffin is a veteran broadcast journalist, foreign correspondent, podcast host and producer. He is owner and founding producer of Explore Productions, based out of Ottawa, where he serves a wide range of institutional, Indigenous, corporate and journalism clients as a host, producer and trainer. He is a fellow of the

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, contributing editor at

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magazine and host of Canadian Geographic's Explore Podcast. He has taught podcasting at the

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. McGuffin spent over twenty years working internationally as a foreign correspondent and senior producer for some of the world's leading news organizations, including

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among many others. Prior to founding Explore Productions in 2018, he was a Supervising Producer with

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in Washington, DC, guiding its award winning national news and current affairs program

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. There he helped lead international news coverage and on the ground political reporting, including the 2016 primaries and US Presidential election. He was part of the launch of team of Up First, one of the world's most listened to daily news podcasts. In 2010, he helped launch Voice of America's South Sudan radio service, as its Managing Editor. From 2004 until 2010 he was the Africa

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for the

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, reporting for its television, radio and digital news services. From his base in

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, he re-asserted CBC's presence on the continent, regularly reporting from conflict zones in Darfur, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, as well as Afghanistan. He also covered a wide range of social, economic, and cultural issues affecting Africa, travelling from Timbuktu to Mogadishu, Khartoum to Cape Town. In his work, he covered

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's final international tour as South African President, interviewed Nobel Peace Prize Winner

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, as well as sports stars, Grammy award winning artists, business leaders, activists and indicted war criminals. His last assignment for the CBC was the

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in South Africa. The CBC closed the Africa bureau in April 2012 after the federal government chopped $115 million from its Parliamentary grant. McGuffin also previously served as the bureau chief in

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for Feature Story News, a

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broadcast news agency, during the last tumultuous years of the Yeltsin era and the rise of Vladimir Putin. His reports from the former Soviet Union aired on National Public Radio, CBC News, ABC Radio News and PBS. In 2000, he opened FSN's

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bureau, before joining

as its Beijing bureau chief and Asia correspondent, reporting from across the continent, including in North Korea. During a two-year stint in Rome, he also reported for

and

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, on Vatican and European affairs. His reports aired on

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and ABC Radio. His first job in journalism was for the MacNeil–Lehrer Newshour on

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. He was part of the team that launched the NewsHour's award-winning digital site and he oversaw the NewsHour's digital foreign coverage. He graduated from

Trent University Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham. Founded in 1964, the university is known for its Oxbridge college system, sma ...

, the journalism program at the

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and

Lisgar Collegiate Institute Lisgar Collegiate Institute is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The school is located in downtown Ottawa by the Rideau Canal. History In 1843, a grammar school with 40 paying students was ...

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