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In 1988 Duffy joined [[Baton Broadcasting]] as the first host of its Sunday morning news program ''[[Sunday Edition (television series)|Sunday Edition]]''. When that series ended in 1999, Duffy moved to his role as a show host and interviewer with [[CTV News Channel (Canada)|CTV Newsnet]] (now the CTV News Channel). Long known as an "Ottawa insider", he was able to get many elected officials to appear on his interview format show. |
In 1988 Duffy joined [[Baton Broadcasting]] as the first host of its Sunday morning news program ''[[Sunday Edition (television series)|Sunday Edition]]''. When that series ended in 1999, Duffy moved to his role as a show host and interviewer with [[CTV News Channel (Canada)|CTV Newsnet]] (now the CTV News Channel). Long known as an "Ottawa insider", he was able to get many elected officials to appear on his interview format show. |
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In 2008, a panel of the [[Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council]] ruled that Duffy had violated broadcasting codes and ethics during the 2008 federal election. The panel concluded that Duffy's decision to air 'false starts' of an interview with then-Liberal leader Stephane Dion “was not fair, balanced, or even handed" and that during the same broadcast, Duffy “significantly misrepresented the view of one of the three members of his Panel...Liberal MP Geoff Regan.”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2009/090527.php|accessdate=2010-09-09|publisher=CBSC|author=National Specialty Services Panel|date=2009-04-06|title=CBSC Decisions}}</ref> |
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===Awards and honours=== |
===Awards and honours=== |
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}}</ref> He has been a visiting fellow at [[Duke University]], in [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]], [[North Carolina]], and has been twice nominated for the "best in the business" award by the [[Washington Journalism Review]].<ref name="pm" /> |
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==Canadian senator== |
==Canadian senator== |
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Revision as of 18:33, 9 September 2010
Michael Duffy | |
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| Senator for Cavendish, Prince Edward Island | |
| Assumed office January 2, 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 27, 1946 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Heather[1] |
| Profession | Television journalist |
Michael Dennis "Mike" Duffy (born May 27, 1946) is a Canadian Senator and former Canadian television journalist. Prior to his appointment to the upper house he was the Ottawa editor for CTV News Channel, and a host of Mike Duffy Live and Countdown with Mike Duffy on the network. Duffy sits in the Senate as a Conservative, representing Prince Edward Island.
Early life and journalism career
Duffy was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He began his career as a teen disc jockey at CFCY-TV in the mid-1960s. He moved to print journalism with The Guardian in Charlottetown, before heading to CFCF as a lineup and assignment editor in 1969, and in 1971 he joined CFRA radio in Ottawa as a political reporter.
Duffy joined CBC radio's Parliament Hill bureau in 1974, and became a reporter for The National in 1977. Duffy became the lead CBC television reporter on Parliament Hill and covered most of the important federal stories of the Trudeau, Clark and Mulroney administrations. Duffy is primarily known for his work as an Ottawa journalist, but he has been a foreign correspondent. He covered the collapse of the South Vietnamese regime in 1975 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and was one of the last journalists to leave Saigon before the arrival of North Vietnamese and Vietnamese nationalist forces.
In 1988 Duffy joined Baton Broadcasting as the first host of its Sunday morning news program Sunday Edition. When that series ended in 1999, Duffy moved to his role as a show host and interviewer with CTV Newsnet (now the CTV News Channel). Long known as an "Ottawa insider", he was able to get many elected officials to appear on his interview format show.
In 2008, a panel of the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council ruled that Duffy had violated broadcasting codes and ethics during the 2008 federal election. The panel concluded that Duffy's decision to air 'false starts' of an interview with then-Liberal leader Stephane Dion “was not fair, balanced, or even handed" and that during the same broadcast, Duffy “significantly misrepresented the view of one of the three members of his Panel...Liberal MP Geoff Regan.”[2]
Awards and honours
In 1986 he won an ACTRA Award for live television reporting, for his coverage of a terrorist attack on the Turkish Embassy in Ottawa.[3] In 1994, Duffy was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.[3][4]
Duffy has received honorary degrees from his alma mater, the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as Wilfrid Laurier University and from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York.[5] He has been a visiting fellow at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, and has been twice nominated for the "best in the business" award by the Washington Journalism Review.[5]
Canadian senator
On December 22, 2008, Duffy was named a Prince Edward Island representative to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, sitting as a Conservative.[5][6] He subsequently retired as a TV journalist at the end of 2008. The time-slot vacated by Mike Duffy Live on CTV News Channel was, for the month of January 2009, temporarily filled by On the Hill with Graham Richardson, then in February permanently replaced by Power Play with Tom Clark, a similar political program hosted by Tom Clark.
References
- Chronicle Herald. "Duffy: Williams, Ghiz 'grotesque' bedfellows", Chronicle Herald, February 5, 2009.
- Truro Daily News. "Harper says senator’s comments about premiers `perhaps inappropriate’", Truro Daily News, February 7, 2009.
- ^ Prime Minister Stephen Harper appoints Mike Duffy to the Senate of Canada on YouTube
- ^ National Specialty Services Panel (2009-04-06). "CBSC Decisions". CBSC. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
- ^ a b "Canadian Communications Foundation: Biographies–Duffy, Michael D." Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
- ^ "CAB Hall of Fame Awards". Canadian Association of Broadcasters. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
- ^ a b c "Backgrounder - List of new Senators" (Press release). Office of the Prime Minister. 2008-12-22. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
- ^ "Prime minister fills 18 vacant Senate seats". CTV News. 2008-12-22. Retrieved 2008-12-22.