Paul Kennedy is a broadcast journalist who worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is a veteran broadcaster and award-winning documentarist, and is best known for being the host of the program Ideas on CBC Radio One from 1999 to his retirement in 2019.[1]
Paul Kennedy | |
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| Born | St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada |
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| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Notable work | Ideas (1999–2019) |
In 1977, he researched and wrote his first documentary segment (on the subject of the fur trade), titled The Fur Trade Revisited.[2] This was featured in an Ideas series entitled Red Man, White World.
While hosting Ideas, Kennedy continued to do documentary work.
Education
Born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario,[3] Kennedy has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and a Master of Letters degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has also done postgraduate work at the University of Toronto, where he studied with the media theoretician Marshall McLuhan.[2]
Awards
- ACTRA award for best Canadian radio documentary for War on the Home Front, co-authored with Timothy Findley[2]
- B'nai B'rith Media Human Rights Award for Nuremberg on Trial[2]
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Special Citation for Excellence in Ocean Science Journalism (2005), for Learning from the Oceans[2]
References
External links
- CBC: His last show: June 28, 2019: Learning to Listen: Paul Kennedy's takeaway lesson Paul Kennedy - Ideas