Dwight Drummond
{{Short description|Canadian television journalist (born 1968)}}
{{Infobox person
| image = CBC Toronto Dwight Drummond.jpg
| name = Dwight Drummond
| birth_place = Montego Bay, Jamaica
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|9|22}}
| occupation = Television journalist
| nationality = Canadian
| alma_mater = Ryerson University
}}
Dwight Drummond (born September 22, 1968) is a Canadian television journalist who currently hosts CBC News Toronto. He previously hosted Canada Tonight on CBC News Network{{Cite web |last=Dialogue |first=Broadcast |date=2022-10-27 |title=Revolving Door |url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/?p=54164 |access-date=2022-12-29 |website=Broadcast Dialogue |language=en-US}} and was also the anchor of CBC Toronto News with Dwight Drummond at CBLT, CBC Television's station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/program/cbc-toronto-news| title = CBC Toronto News - CBC Media Centre}}
Career
Drummond moved to Canada in 1976 and was raised in Toronto's Jane and Finch neighbourhood. He attended high school at Runnymede Collegiate Institute, and is a graduate of the Radio and Television Arts program at Ryerson University (now known as Toronto Metropolitan University).
Drummond was Citytv's crime specialist. He started out at Citytv as a security guard on Electric Circus in 1989. He has since worked as a teleprompter operator, floor director, studio cameraman, deputy chief of assignment, anchor of CityNews Streetbeat, and videographer for CityNews. During this time, he appeared in the Maestro Fresh-Wes music video "Let Your Backbone Slide" as the cameraman at the beginning sequences.
In 1995, Drummond was accosted by two Toronto Police officers in what the officers described as a "high-risk takedown", but which was characterized by outside observers as a racial profiling assault as there was no evidence that Drummond had done anything besides driving while black. The allegation of police misconduct was one of several which contributed to a wildcat strike by police officers in the summer of 1995; Bill Blair, a supporter of community policing models, was assigned to head the affected police division in response to the strike (Blair later rose to be Toronto police chief). The incident also reportedly contributed to Drummond's own decision to move from a technical to an on-air journalist's role with Citytv.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}
Drummond previously anchored CityNews at Noon and was later made anchor for another newscast, CityNews at Five. Due to the Citytv layoffs in January 2010, Drummond lost his anchoring job, but continued to work as the station's crime specialist. He left the station September 6, 2010.
On October 12, 2010, he joined Anne-Marie Mediwake as co-anchor for supper hour newscasts for CBC News: Toronto on CBC Toronto.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/article/873672--diversity-on-the-dial-new-cbc-co-anchors-anne-marie-mediwake-and-dwight-drummond |title=Diversity on the dial: New CBC co-anchors Anne-Marie Mediwake and Dwight Drummond|newspaper= Toronto Star|access-date=2010-10-12|date= 2010-10-12|author= Ashante Infantry}} Mediwake left the program to join CTV's Your Morning in 2016.{{cite news |title=Anne-Marie Mediwake leaving CBC Toronto News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/anne-marie-mediwake-leaving-cbc-1.3555854 |access-date=July 7, 2020 |work=CBC News |date=April 27, 2016}} Drummond was the principal anchor of the renamed CBC Toronto News with Dwight Drummond until October 2022, when he joined CBC News Network as the host of the Canada Tonight; he filled in for regular host Ginella Massa, who was on maternity leave.{{Cite web |last=Thiessen |first=Connie |date=2023-07-20 |title=Ginella Massa announces departure from CBC News Network |url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/ginella-massa-announces-departure-from-cbc-news-network/ |access-date=2024-08-27 |website=Broadcast Dialogue |language=en-US}}
Awards
In May 2021, Drummond won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Local News Anchor at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards.Greg David, [https://www.tv-eh.com/2021/05/17/marys-kitchen-crush-canadas-drag-race-and-lisa-laflamme-win-during-night-1-of-the-2021-canadian-screen-awards/ "Mary’s Kitchen Crush, Canada’s Drag Race and Lisa LaFlamme win during Night 1 of the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards"]. TV, eh?, May 17, 2021. He was previously nominated in the same category at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, and the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.{{Update after|2023|11}}
In June 2023, Drummond was conferred an honorary Doctor of Law by Toronto Metropolitan University.{{Cite web |date=2023-07-14 |title=TMU honourary degrees for Dwight Drummond, Deborah Flint and husband and wife Wayne & Nigela Purboo |url=https://www.ronfanfair.com/home/2023/7/14/ieerh8rjudeni1nlrqlhz62ocdp4ix |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=Ron Fanfair |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=CBC’s Dwight Drummond among 10 notable figures receiving TMU honorary doctorates |url=https://www.torontomu.ca/news-events/news/2023/04/cbcs-dwight-drummond-among-10-notable-figures-receiving-tmu-honorary-doctorates/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=Toronto Metropolitan University |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.cbc.ca/cbcnewstoronto/drummond.html CBC.ca profile]
- {{Twitter}}
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Category:Black Canadian broadcasters
Category:People from Montego Bay
Category:Canadian television news anchors
Category:Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Category:Jamaican emigrants to Canada
Category:Journalists from Toronto
Category:CBC Television people
Category:Canadian Screen Award winning journalists