Carole MacNeil
{{Short description|Canadian journalist}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=June 2021}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Carole MacNeil
| birth_date = {{Birth based on age as of date|30|1994|08|13}}
| birth_place =
| occupation = Journalist, news presenter
| television = CBC News: Sunday Night (2002—2009)
CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil (2002—2021)
| spouse = {{marriage|Richard Stursberg|2009}}
}}
Carole MacNeil is a Canadian television journalist, known for her work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which spanned over thirty years.
MacNeil began her career anchoring local news programs in New Brunswick and Ontario in the early 1990s, before joining CBC Newsworld in 1998. Her most recent program was CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil, a daytime news program on CBC News Network.{{Cite web|title=CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil|url=https://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/cbc_rundown_with_carole_macneil|access-date=2021-06-14|website=CBC Program Guide}}{{Cite web|title=Carole MacNeil|url=https://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/bio/carole-macneil|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-14|website=CBC Media Centre|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020204206/http://www.cbc.ca:80/mediacentre/bio/carole-macneil |archive-date=October 20, 2017 }}
Biography
MacNeil grew up in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. From 1990 to 1994, she worked at CBC affiliate station CHSJ-TV in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she was a co-anchor for the evening news program and the host of a current affairs program.{{Cite news|date=1998-08-01|title=CBC's MacNeil moves on|pages=57|work=The Windsor Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79569977/cbcs-macneil-moves-on/|access-date=2021-06-14}} In October 1994, she moved to Windsor, Ontario, where she became the anchor of the local evening newscast on CBET, the local CBC station.{{Cite news|last=Shaw|first=Ted|date=1994-08-13|title=Getting To Know You|pages=37|work=The Windsor Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79562432/getting-to-know-you/|access-date=2021-06-14}} MacNeil replaced David Kyle as the station's late-night news anchor in February 1996, becoming the anchor of both the evening and late-night newscasts.{{Cite news|last=Shaw|first=Ted|date=1996-02-22|title=New look for CBET|pages=17|work=The Windsor Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79564059/new-look-for-cbet/|access-date=2021-06-14}} Leaving the Windsor station in August 1998, she joined CBC Newsworld as a co-anchor of the CBC morning news program with Ralph Benmergui.
In 2000, MacNeil helped launch Canada Now, the supper hour news program on CBC Television.
In February 2002, MacNeil and Evan Solomon became the host of CBC News: Sunday Night, an hour-long prime time news broadcast on CBC Television, as well as on CBC Newsworld.{{Cite news|last=Atherton|first=Tony|date=2002-02-21|title=Debut of CBC News: Sunday looks promising|pages=65|work=The Ottawa Citizen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79568798/debut-of-cbc-news-sunday-looks/|access-date=2021-06-14|via=Newspapers.com}} CBC News Sunday won several Gemini Awards. At the 24th Gemini Awards in 2009, one of MacNeil's reports for CBC News: Sunday Night was nominated for "Best Lifestyle/practical information segment".{{Cite web|date=2011-06-13|title=24th ANNUAL GEMINI AWARDS / FULL LIST OF NOMINATIONS & WINNERS|url=http://www.geminiawards.ca/Gemini24/press/GEM24FullListNominationsandWinners.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613232813/http://www.geminiawards.ca/Gemini24/press/GEM24FullListNominationsandWinners.pdf|archive-date=2011-06-13|access-date=2021-06-14}} The program was cancelled in May 2009 during a restructuring of CBC News by CBC executive Richard Stursberg, who MacNeil married weeks later in June 2009.{{Cite news|last=Dixon|first=Guy|date=2009-06-15|title=Major changes ahead at CBC News|work=The Globe and Mail|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/major-changes-ahead-at-cbc-news/article4212298/|access-date=2021-06-14}}{{Cite news|last=Govani|first=Shinan|date=2009-06-01|title=Out the door, but then down the aisle|pages=19|work=National Post|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79563636/out-the-door-but-then-down-the-aisle/|access-date=2021-06-14}}{{Cite news|last=Bradshaw|first=James|date=June 2, 2009|title=CBC's Stursberg to marry TV news host MacNeil|work=The Globe and Mail|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/cbcs-stursberg-to-marry-tv-news-host-macneil/article4275282/|access-date=2021-06-14}}
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."[http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/pdf/2011-08-26-Rida.pdf], August 26, 2011.
MacNeil joined the CBC in May 1987, and celebrated her 25th anniversary in 2012. From October 2012 to September 2013, MacNeil took a leave of absence and studied abroad in France.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
In October 2021, MacNeil announced that she would be departing from CBC News later that month.{{Cite tweet|number=1445455310424973316|user=carolemacneil|title=Well. It's official. I just wanted to let you know, I am leaving CBC News later this month. I will have more to say later, but I am so grateful for my time with @CBCNews . Last day October 26. (missingyoualready)|author=Carole MacNeil}} Her last broadcast on CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil took place on October 26, 2021.{{Cite tweet|number=1452995091027668998|user=carolemacneil|title=Tonight will be my last show on CBC News Network. I'll say a proper goodbye near the end of my program The Rundown, which starts at 4pm et @CBCNews . I hope you'll join me.|author=Carole MacNeil}}{{Cite web|last=Taylor-Vaisey|first=Nick|title=Justin Trudeau's big reveal|url=https://politi.co/3jEfw48|access-date=2021-10-28|website=POLITICO|language=en}}
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Category:Canadian television news anchors
Category:People from Antigonish, Nova Scotia
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Category:Canadian women television journalists
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