Doug James (correspondent)

Doug James is a Canadian journalist, best known for his work as a foreign correspondent for CNN where he covered the Gulf War, the Palestinian Intifada and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Before joining CNN, he was a correspondent for the CBC flagship current affairs program, The Journal.

After returning to Canada in the early 1990s, he anchored CBC Newsworld Business News. Later he worked as a technology reporter for CNBC Europe and as managing editor of CanadaInvest.com, a financial website based in Toronto.

He currently works as a freelance writer and voice over artist and is a sessional lecturer in Media Law and Ethics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario (Winter, 2016).