Nationality Canadian TV shows CBC News Magazine Role Journalist | Name Stanley Burke Television The National | |
Born February 8, 1923 ( 1923-02-08 ) Occupation journalist, news presenter, author Books Frog Fables & Beaver Tales | ||
Canadian journalist stanley burke dead at 93
Stanley Burke, Jr. (February 8, 1923 – May 28, 2016) was a Canadian television journalist.
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Early years
Burke's father was businessman Stanley Burke, founder of Pemberton Securities, a stockbrokerage firm in Western Canada. His brother was Lieutenant-Commander Cornelius Burke, a prominent Royal Canadian Navy officer during World War II.
Career
He was the anchor of CBC Television's The National News from 1966 to 1969. The show was renamed The National after he resigned to launch a public campaign to bring attention to the Nigerian Civil War and the humanitarian crisis in the secessionist state of Biafra.
Following his retirement from the CBC, Burke also wrote a number of books satirizing Canadian politics in the form of children's stories, including Swamp Song, Frog Fables and Beaver Tales and The Day of the Glorious Revolution.
In the 1980s he was publisher with partner Jack McCann of the weekly newspaper Nanaimo Times in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Death
Stanley Burke, Jr. died at the Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario on May 28, 2016, aged 93.