Jim Munson

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

Munson spent most of his journalism career with CTV, which he joined in 1979 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 CTV'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. CTV laid off Munson 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.