Neil Macdonald

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Neil Macdonald
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Alma materAlgonquin College
OccupationJournalist
SpouseJoyce Napier
RelativesNorm Macdonald (brother)

Neil Macdonald (born 1957) is a Canadian

The National
.

Early life and family

Macdonald was born and raised in Quebec City. His father was Percy Macdonald, who served with the Canadian Army during World War II and helped liberate the Netherlands. His mother is Ferne Macdonald (née Mains). He has two brothers, one of whom was comedian/actor Norm Macdonald.[1] He is married to Joyce Napier, a parliamentary bureau chief for CTV News.[2]

Career

After graduating from Algonquin College in Ottawa, Macdonald worked first as a print journalist. He joined the CBC in 1988 and covered Canadian Parliament for approximately a decade. He then served for five years (1998–2003) as the network's chief Middle East correspondent.

Macdonald was involved in a public dispute with Canadian media mogul

CanWest media outlets.[3]

In November 2010, Macdonald led a CBC investigation into the

Shia paramilitary group Hezbollah to the 2005 bombing that killed Hariri, and that the UN had not acted on this intelligence due to diplomatic concerns.[4] Macdonald's report also sharply criticized the performance of the Special Tribunal's head prosecutor, Daniel Bellemare, who responded that he was "extremely disappointed" with the report.[5]

In 2014, Macdonald harshly criticized Linden MacIntyre, a former CBC employee, after MacIntyre made comments about the CBC in regard to the Jian Ghomeshi incident.[6][7]

In 2015, Macdonald moved back to Canada after 17 years in the United States, 12 of which he spent in

The National.[needs update
]

Awards

In 1988, Macdonald received a Centre for Investigative Journalism Award honorable mention for the 1987 story "CSIS: Making a cop into a spy just doesn't fly"[8] in the Ottawa Citizen.[9]

In 2004, Macdonald received a

U.S. 2007 economic crisis.[10]

References

  1. ^ Story, Jared (September 23, 2010). "Norm Macdonald talks to Uptown". Winnipeg: Uptown. Archived from the original on September 28, 2010.
    U: ...your brother is on the CBC (Neil Macdonald is The National's senior Washington correspondent).
    Macdonald: Yeah, my brother is a news reporter. He lives in Washington now. I'm glad because he used to do war reporting.
  2. ^ "The trouble with honest reporting" Archived 2018-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Toronto Star, January 26, 2003; republished at InformationClearinghouse.info; accessed January 11, 2016.
  3. ISBN 9781551118123
    . Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  4. ^ Potter, Mitch (Nov 21, 2010). "UN had evidence linking Hezbollah to murder of Lebanese PM: CBC". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  5. ^ Martin, Patrick (Nov 23, 2010). "Lebanese PM slams CBC news report". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
  6. ^ Omar, Mohamed (23 November 2014). "Neil Macdonald: Linden MacIntyre Is 'Self-Righteous' And Wrong About CBC". The Huffington Post Canada. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  7. ^ Doyle, John (24 November 2014). "Doyle: CBC needs an adult in charge, MacIntyre affair shows". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  8. The Ottawa Citizen
    (Weekend ed.). pp. B1, B16.
  9. The Ottawa Citizen (Final ed.). The Canadian Press
    . March 28, 1988. p. A12.
  10. ^ "Canada's Award Database". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
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