Amanda Lang

Celebrated Canadian business journalist Amanda Lang is CBC's senior business correspondent, reporting for its flagship nightly news program, The National. She is also co-host of The Lang & O'Leary Exchange, a daily business program airing on Newsworld. She is the former co-anchor of BNN's SqueezePlay and The Commodities Report, national programs covering business and politics, and a former contributor for Canada's premier business magazine, Report on Business, where she profiled the passions of Canada's business elite. Lang comments on current business news and trends, and she closely observes the North America's political scene.

Lang grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Ottawa, Ontario. She studied Architecture at the University of Manitoba, before becoming a journalist. Her first job in journalism was for the Globe and Mail, where at the age of 23 she edited a monthly newspaper called The Classroom Edition. Subsequently, Lang joined the Financial Post newspaper, where she was a technology reporter before being named the paper's New York correspondent. In New York she made the leap to television, where she first was part of the team that launched BNN and before long wound up at CNN as a reporter and anchor. As the New York Stock Exchange correspondent for CNN, she interviewed everyone from Fortune 500 CEOs to heads of state and rock stars. She returned to Canada in 2002 to re-join BNN and CTV.

Lang regularly covers topics as diverse as Israeli politics and music copyright infringement, and is equally at home talking to ambassadors as she is talking to movie actors. She has acquired her Canadian Securities Course certificate, and speaks often about business and economic trends. In addition to her work as a speaker, Lang is also a great MC and loves doing it. Her engaging and witty style can be attributed to many years stick-handling the vagaries of live television!

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