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 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
Kennedy has a BA degree from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; a MLitt degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and he has done postgraduate work at the University of Toronto, where he studied with the media theoretician Marshall McLuhan.[2]
Awards
- ACTRA award for best Canadian radio documentary for War on the Home Front, co-authored with Timothy Findley
- B'nai B'rith Media Human Rights Award for Nuremberg on Trial
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Special Citation for Excellence in Ocean Science Journalism (2005), for Learning from the Oceans
- List source :[2]
References
- ^ "CBC News foreign correspondent Nahlah Ayed to host CBC Radio's Ideas - The veteran journalist will take over from Paul Kennedy in September".
- ^ a b c "About the Host". CBC Radio-Canada. 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
External links
- CBC: His last show: June 28, 2019: Learning to Listen: Paul Kennedy's takeaway lesson Paul Kennedy - Ideas