Peter Mansbridge is one of Canada's most respected journalists. He is the former chief correspondent for CBC News and anchor of The National , CBC's flagship nightly newscast where he worked for thirty years reporting on national and international news stories such as federal elections, foreign conflicts, natural disasters, the fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, the 2014 Parliament Hill shootings, and numerous Olympic Games. From 1999 to 2017, he hosted Mansbridge One on One , a weekly program featuring conversations with world leaders, music legends, and sports heroes. Mansbridge has received over a dozen national awards for broadcast excellence, including a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Canadian Screen and Television. He is a distinguished fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is the former two-term Chancellor of Mount Allison University. In 2008, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada--the country's highest civilian honour--and in 2012, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He is the author of the national bestseller Peter Mansbridge One on One: Favourite Conversations and the Stories Behind Them.
He lives in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter @PeterMansbridge, visit him at ThePeterMansbridge.com, or listen to his weekly podcast, The Bridge , wherever you find your podcasts. Mark Bulgutch is a journalist, educator, speaker, and the author of That's Why I'm a Journalist and That's Why I'm a Doctor . He worked for CBC for forty years, eleven as the senior editor of The National and another ten as senior executive producer of all live news specials. He has taught at the Ryerson University School of Journalism for almost thirty-five years. A regular contributor of opinion columns to the Toronto Star , he has won fourteen Gemini awards, four RTNDA Awards, the Canadian Journalist Foundation Award of Excellence, and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Gold Ribbon Award. He lives in Toronto.
Follow him on Twitter @MarkBulgutch.