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Host
Michael Enright has been the host of CBC Radio
One's The Sunday Edition since September 2000.
Enright's journalistic credits are impressive. Prior to joining
The Sunday Edition, he hosted This Morning for three years,
and he spent ten years hosting CBC Radio's As
It Happens.
Enright's innovative approach to the coverage of world events
established As It Happens as a program that breaks through
the boundaries of standard news broadcasting. He joined As
It Happens after two-and-a-half years as managing editor of
CBC Radio News. Prior to that, he held a number of important
editorial positions with leading Canadian magazines and newspapers.
He has written for Time magazine and was the editor of Quest.
As assistant managing editor of Maclean's, he oversaw the
magazine's shift from a monthly to a weekly publication. Enright
worked for The Toronto Star as a political writer and was
Washington correspondent for the Globe and Mail. He received
a Southam Fellowship for Journalism in 1979, and studied Chinese
history.
In 1974, Enright hosted CBC Radio's This Country in the Morning.
He has also been the temporary host of Sunday Morning, Cross
Country Checkup and Montreal's morning radio show, Daybreak.
Enright is known for his interviewing skills and investigative
and information-giving journalistic reporting. He has hosted
several specials following the events of September 11, and
on the war in Afghanistan.
In the spring of 1991, Enright, with co-host Alannah Campbell
and international affairs specialist Hal Jones, provided exceptional
Gulf War coverage - starting with five hours of live, continuous
broadcasts the night the war began. The coverage connected
listeners to correspondents, diplomats, soldiers and war-torn
families all over the world.
In 1998, Enright continued his interest in bringing unique
and current coverage of world stories and issues to CBC Radio
listeners when he travelled to Israel as it marked the 50th
anniversary of the creation of the state. Enright also travelled
to Ireland to report on the Referendum, before and after the
results.
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