Sunday, May 3, 2009

CBC's Don Newman to retire


One of the CBC's most experienced political journalists, Don Newman, host of the daily Newsworld program Politics, has opted for the voluntary retirement incentive.

Newman said Sunday that he will be doing Politics until the end of the season in June." He did disclose his future plans.

Newman, whose career spans 40 years, opened CTV's Washington bureau in 1972, covering the Watergate scandal. In 1976, he joined the CBC's team in the U.S. capital before becoming the CBC's senior western correspondent based in Edmonton.

He joined the CBC's parliamentary bureau in 1981.

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