Thursday, May 7, 2009

CBC names Jennifer McGuire general manager and editor in chief of news


Jennifer McGuire has been named general manager and editor in chief of CBC News.

McGuire takes over responsibility for CBC Newsworld and all local and network news and current affairs programming on CBC-TV, CBC Radio and CBCNews.ca.

She began her CBC career at CBC Radio in Ottawa and went on to become the executive director of CBC Radio.

McGuire has acted as interim head of the public broadcaster's English language news service since November 2008. She succeeds John Cruickshank, who left CBC in November to become publisher of the Toronto Star.

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