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About Carole MacNeil
- Carole MacNeil (born February 2, 1964) is an award-winning television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- She was the host of The National on Saturday 9pm Eastern Time Zone on the CBC News Network.
- She also hosted the political program The Sunday Scrum Sunday mornings at 10am Eastern Time Zone.
- Currently, she hosts CBC News Network tonight weekdays from 7:00 to 9:00 Eastern time.
- MacNeil was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
- She worked her way from small town private radio stations to the position of senior anchor with CBC Television.
- She deals extensively in international affairs, having covered many of the biggest stories of the last decade.
- MacNeil previously co hosted with Evan Solomon of CBC News: Sunday, a two-hour long weekly magazine program focusing on politics, ethics and spirituality.
- As of September 2004, MacNeil and Evan Solomon co-hosted CBC News: Sunday Night, an hour-long prime time news broadcast on CBC Television, as well as on CBC Newsworld, Canada's 24-hour cable news television channel.
- The programs were cancelled in June 2009.
- CBC News Sunday has won several Gemini Awards. During her time at CBC News Sunday she has won gold at the New York Television festival for a story on exorcism in the Catholic Church, and she won another award for her documentary on the truth about nuclear power.
- She's also been nominated for several Gemini Awards. MacNeil has also hosted Sunday Report, the nightly Sunday national newscast.
- She has covered many major stories both domestically and internationally, including, live reporting from the crash scene during 9 11, the war in Afghanistan and the drug cartel wars in Mexico. In 2000, MacNeil helped launch Canada Now, the supperhour news program on CBC Television.
- She served as the Toronto anchor and made the fledgling program a ratings winner in its debut year.
- Prior to that, she anchored CBC Newsworld Sunday, a weekly interview-based national and international news magazine. In 2011, the CBC Ombudsman was called to review MacNeil's on air statements concerning the Six Day War.
- Upon review the "CBC acknowledged it was misleading for [MacNeil] to assert that neighbouring countries attacked Israel."From October 2012 to September 2013, she took a leave of absence and studied abroad in France. She was also previously an anchor and writer for the Windsor Evening News on Windsor's CBET.
- It was the number one news show in the market at the time.
- She began her television career at CBC station CHSJ-TV (now CBAT-TV) in Fredericton in 1987. Carole MacNeil joined the CBC in May 1987, and celebrated her 25th anniversary in 2012.
- In June of 2009, she was married to former CBC executive Richard Stursberg.
- The wedding was held at a loft penthouse space where the couple had lived. The intimate guest list of 120 included Carole's co-anchor Evan Solomon and his spouse director Tammy Quinn, the National Ballet of Canada's Rex Harrington and partner Bob Hope as well as a virtual who's who of the CBC establishment.
- Stursberg was restructuring CBC News and weeks before the wedding, announced he was cancelling MacNeil and Solomon's iconic Sunday shows.
- The CBC retained both hosts, giving Solomon Power and Politics and MacNeil a named show on the restructured news network.
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