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Paul Kennedy
Born
Alma mater
Occupation Journalist
Employer Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Notable work Ideas (1999–2019)

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]

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

References

  1. ^ "CBC News foreign correspondent Nahlah Ayed to host CBC Radio's Ideas - The veteran journalist will take over from Paul Kennedy in September".
  2. ^ a b c d e "About the Host". CBC Radio-Canada. 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
  3. ^ "CBC Ideas: Paul and Ed's Excellent Adventure in #OurHomeSTC". 16 January 2019.

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