Duncan McCue

Duncan McCue is a Canadian television and radio journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[1] A longtime reporter for CBC Television's The National,[2] as of August 2016 he is the host of CBC Radio One's radio call-in show Cross Country Checkup.[3]

McCue graduated with a degree in English course from the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, then completed a degree in law at the University of British Columbia.

McCue is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has also taught aboriginal Canadians at First Nations University and Capilano College.

McCue is Anishinaabe, a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation.[4]

He has won numerous journalism awards, including a Jack Webster Award for Best Feature,[5] an RTNDA Award for Best Long Feature and two regional RTNDA Diversity Awards for his coverage of aboriginal issues. In 2010-11, he was awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University in California.

He is the author of a short memoir, The Shoe Boy.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Indigenous stories need to be heard". Toronto Star, May 31, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Vancouver's top videographers share their secrets". Vancouver Sun, October 26, 2013.
  3. 1 2 "CBC Radio Announces New Host of ‘Cross Country Checkup’". Broadcaster, July 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ "How Canada became a leader in aboriginal programming; Producers, filmmakers share stories at global public broadcasting forum". Calgary Herald, may 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Larry Pynn and colleagues head list of Webster Award winners". Vancouver Sun, November 2, 2010.
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