Robert Bowman was a broadcast

journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He was the son of Charles A. Bowman, editor of the

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newspaper, and a member of the Aird Commission that recommended Canada have a

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system. During

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he covered the

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, and in the radio programme London After Dark, broadcast 20 August 1940, he is heard interviewing chef Francois Latry at the Savoy Hotel in

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. On the

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of 19 August 1942 - the bloodiest single day of the war for Canada - he was attached to the Canadian troops, and broadcast on Canadian radio the next day. In a 1984 radio interview he explained some of the challenges of the time."How do you cover a war on radio?"
, March 25, 1984, CBC, Voice of the Pioneer,

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