Name Paul Kennedy | Role Broadcaster | |
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Awards Gemini Award for Best News Information Segment People also search for Catherine McIsaac, Alex Shprintsen, Eric Foss, Mavor Moore |
Paul Kennedy is a broadcast journalist who works 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 since 1999. In 1977, he researched and wrote his first documentary segment (on the subject of the fur trade), titled The Fur Trade Revisited. This was featured in an Ideas series entitled Red Man, White World.
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As well as hosting Ideas, Kennedy has continued to do documentary work.
Education
Kennedy has a BA degree from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; a MLitt degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and done postgraduate work at the University of Toronto, where he studied with the media theoretician Marshall McLuhan.