Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman

Gemini Award-Winning News Anchor

A journalist for more than 20 years, Kevin Newman is the founding Anchor and Executive Editor of Global National. During his decade at the helm the national newscast, he won multiple awards.  A short five years after its creation, Global National was Canada's most-watched newscast. With ABC News and Global National, Kevin Newman has reported from the front lines of the war in Iraq, anchored live coverage of the September 11 tragedy, and interviewed the likes of Jimmy Carter.  He takes audiences behind-the-scenes of the news business, and addresses the influence of advertising and profitability on news reporting. In addition, he explores the idea of journalists as truth seekers. Newman presents an informal yet award-winning approach to news reporting, while dissecting issues of the day that Canadians care about most.


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Kevin Newman rose to fame as one of Canada’s top national news anchors as the founding anchor and executive editor of Global National. During his decade at the helm the national newscast won multiple awards, going on to become Canada's most-watched newscast a short five years after its creation.  In 2010 Newman retired from the broadcast and is now an acclaimed documentary film maker and digital media advisor to several major Canadian institutions.

Newman began his broadcasting career with Global in 1981. He rose to the position of parliamentary reporter, and then moved to CTV National News where he worked as a parliamentary reporter and Atlantic Bureau Chief. Newman moved to CBC's The National and later became co-anchor of CBC Midday, an afternoon news and interview program.  

Following CBC, Newman went on to ABC, for which he gained the most notoriety.  During his seven-year stint at ABC News, Newman served as substitute anchor and correspondent for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. In addition, he anchored ABC News Special Reports and covered Showdown with Saddam Hussein from Baghdad, in 1997. His tenure with ABC also included co-hosting Good Morning America and serving as senior correspondent for Nightline with Ted Koppel.

Newman’s long list of interviews includes such luminaries as Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, George Bush, Jimmy Carter and Lech Walesa. Among his many accolades, he has been honoured with multiple Gemini Awards for Best News Anchor/Best Newscast, two Emmy Awards for Outstanding News and Documentary Program Achievement and Breaking News Coverage, and a prestigious Peabody Award.  

He has anchored Global’s live coverage of the September 11th Tragedy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Obama election and Inauguration, as well as numerous other political events. He has reported from the front lines in Iraq, Israel, Moscow, Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Central America. Through his travels, he has learned to appreciate Canada.

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  • It was a pleasure working with Kevin Newman at our recent event. He has the credentials of a super-star and the personality of your next-door neighbour. Down-to-earth and real, his presentation style is relaxed and inviting. A great sense of humour, and the ability to read the room, Kevin makes it look so easy.
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