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Richard Zussman (born September 2, 1983) is a reporter for the CBC in Vancouver. He is a former TV personality on Citytv in Edmonton where he served the political reporter/videographer Breakfast on Television and a former videojournalist for the Sun News Network in Vancouver.
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Zussman was born and raised in Ottawa where he caught the political bug at a young age. He received his undergraduate degree in Political Studies from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 2006. Zussman went on to the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University where he completed his Master's in Broadcast Journalism.
While at Syracuse, Zussman travelled to New Hampshire to cover the historic 2008 Presidential Primary for KUAR, an NPR radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas. He travelled with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on his campaign bus and reported on a group of Little Rock volunteers supporting Hillary Clinton who were left out in the cold after their hotel burned down.
In the summer of 2008, Zussman worked in Washington, D.C. as a television reporter for KTAL in Shreveport, Louisiana covering the Senate race between John Kennedy and incumbent Mary Landrieu. He also covered sports at WBNG-TV in NY.
Zussman joined Citytv Edmonton in November 2008.