Jim Munson

Jim Munson (born July 15 1946) is a Canadian senator and retired journalist.

Munson spent most of his journalism career with Global news service which he joined in 1969 after working for Broadcast News for several years. He served as the network's correspondent in Ottawa and then London, England. From 1987 to 1992 he was Global's bureau chief in Beijing and consequently coverered the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He also covered the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War in the course of his career. Munson was fired by Global in 2001.

A year later, in August 2002 he took an appointment with the Prime Minister's Office as Jean Chrétien's director of communications, often acting as the Prime Minister's spokesperson. On December 10 2003, two days before retiring from office, Chrétien elevated Munson to the Senate in what was his final appointment to the Upper House. Munson sits as a member of the Liberal caucus.