Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman has been the anchor and executive editor of the very popular Global National with Kevin Newman since its first edition on September 3, 2001.

Having the opportunity to re-invent and refresh network news in Canada was the creative challenge he was looking for after seven years as an anchor and correspondent at ABC News in New York. During that time he hosted and reported for Nightline, World News Tonight and Good Morning America.

Kevin has also been a national correspondent for CTV and CBC, and was co-host of CBC’s Midday in the early 1990s. This is Kevin’s second tour-of-duty with Global.

After graduating from the University of Western Ontario, he landed a position making coffee and ripping wire copy (in the days before computers) at the Global newsroom in Toronto. His first on-air job was for Global’s Sportsline. He later reported from Queen’s Park and Global’s Ottawa bureau.

His 27-year journalism career recently brought him to the volatile country of Pakistan and the front lines of war-torn Afghanistan. Throughout his career, Kevin has interviewed Canadian and world leaders, offering Canadians in-depth analysis and perspective to the day’s major national and international news.

Kevin met his wife, Cathy, at Global. They have two grown children, Alex and Eri and a stubborn standard French poodle.

Kevin’s interests include reading biographical history (particularly the U.S. Civil War), weight-training, rowing, canoeing and skiing.

His reporting won him two Gemini Awards for Best News Anchor (2005 & 2006), adding to his two Emmy Awards and a distinguished Peabody Award he won while in the U.S. Since his return to Canada, his work at Global National has earned him several Best Anchor Awards and nominations from the B.C. Film Institute and Canada’s Radio-Television News Directors Association.

He was born in Toronto on June 2, 1959, growing up in Toronto, Montreal and Mississauga.

Recent Awards

Multiple Gemini Winner: Canada’s Best Anchor

Edward R. Murrow Award Winner: Best International Continuing Coverage

George Foster Peabody Award: ABC 2000 Millennium Coverage

Emmy Award Winner: Outstanding News and Documentary Program Achievement

Emmy Award Winner: Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story

Multiple Leo Award Winner: Best Anchor in British Columbia

Employment History

May 2001 to Current: Global National with Kevin Newman – Anchor/Executive Editor

February 1999 to May 2001: ABC News: World News Tonight with Peter Jennings – Substitute Anchor/Correspondent

May 1998 to February 1999: ABC News: Good Morning America – Co-host

January 1997 to May 1998: ABC News: Good Morning America – News Anchor

January 1996 to January 1997: ABC News: Good Morning America, Weekend Edition – Co-Host

December 1994 to January 1996: ABC News: World News This Morning/World News Now – Anchor

September 1992 to December 1994: CBC Television: Midday – Co-Anchor

September 1998 to December 1994: CBC Television: The National – Substitute Anchor; Parliamentary Reporter; Senior Western Correspondent

August 1987 to May 1998: CTV National News – Parliamentary Bureau; Atlantic Bureau Chief; Correspondent

July 1983 to August 1987: Global News Toronto – Parliamentary Bureau; Reporter

Education

Visiting Rogers Communications Lecturer, University of Western Ontario: October 1999

Instructor: Ryerson University School of Journalism: 1993 – 1994

Bachelor of Arts, University of Western Ontario, Dean’s Honour List: 1980

Ontario Scholar: 1978

Recent Major Stories

– Anchored from Kandahar, Afghanistan

– Anchored live Papal funeral coverage from Rome

– Anchored 36-day live road trip for 2004 Canadian federal election

– Anchored live Canadian election night coverage 2004, 2006, 2008

– Anchored live coverage of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the U.S.

– Anchored ABC News Special Report on Princess Diana’s death

– Anchored ABC News Special Report on Atlanta Olympic bombing

Reported/Anchored from:

Afghanistan, Iraq, Great Britain, Russia, Iraq, Cuba, France, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Germany, Poland, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, The Hague, Iceland

Personal

Born June 2, 1959 in Toronto

Married to Cathy Newman; son Alex; daughter Erica

Listed in Who’s Who in America 1997 – Present

Listed in Who’s Who in Canada 1994 – Present