Kevin Newman
Biography:
KEVIN NEWMAN’s career in television journalism is unequalled in Canada. He has been Host/Managing Editor of CTV’s Investigative series W5, Host/Executive Editor of Global National, Co-Host of ABC’s Good Morning America, Host of CBC’s Midday, National/International Correspondent for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline with Ted Koppel, and Parliamentary Correspondent for CBC The National, CTV National News and Global News.
Kevin is currently the Host and Executive Producer of the ground-breaking podcast ‘Attention Control with Kevin Newman’. It is the first charity-funded independent journalistic podcast in Canada, in association with McGill University in Montreal.
Kevin has a proven record of innovation in Canadian journalism. He guided the development and success of Global National as the country’s third national newscast and also the first news podcast on Apple’s iTunes. He later created the innovative ‘Kevin Newman Live’ for CTV, and was Bell Media’s ‘Digital News Evangelist’. While co-anchoring ‘World News Now’ at ABC News, his newscast was the first live streamed on the internet in 1995. Kevin also served for six years on the Board of Directors for the Communitech Hub in Waterloo Ontario which is Canada’s leading start-up incubator. He has created television series and iPad content through his independent company, NewMan Media Ltd.
Along with his son Alex, Kevin co-authored the best-selling memoir ‘All Out’. He has been awarded multiple Emmy, Gemini, Edward R. Murrow and RTDNA awards, and holds an Honourary Doctorate from Western University granted in 2011. He resides in Toronto, Canada with his wife Cathy.
Activities:
Disinformation Roundtable