Peter Mansbridge

Chief Correspondent Peter Mansbridge is anchor of CBC News Special Reports
and anchors the news segment of The National/CBC News, CBC Television's     flagship nightly news program.

Mansbridge began his CBC career in 1969 in Churchill, where he helped develop the CBC service to the north. In 1971, he moved to Winnipeg
as a reporter for CBC Radio and the following year joined local CBC
Television News as a reporter. He became The National's Saskatchewan reporter in 1975 and was assigned to the Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa in 1976, where he remained for four years.

Mansbridge has been Chief Correspondent since May, 1988,when he began his run as anchor of The National.

During his 27 years with CBC News, Mansbridge has provided comprehensive
coverage one of the most significant news stories in Canada and around the world.

He has anchored CBC Television's live coverage of seven federal elections, five federal leadership conventions, numerous royal and papal visits, the Charlottetown referendum and the '95 Quebec referendum, and extensive
coverage of the Gulf War. In June, l994 he reported from Normandy on the D-Day anniversary activities, and in May 1995 he reported from Holland and England on the VE Day anniversary.

Mansbridge has been honoured with four Gemini Awards for excellence in
broadcast journalism by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. In 1988, he was awarded his first Best Anchor/Interviewer Gemini for an interview with former Prime Minster John Turner. The next year he anchored
a special edition of Sunday Report which covered the student massacre in China's Tiananmen Square.
            

That broadcast earned Mansbridge his second Gemini Award for best               Anchor/Interviewer.

In l990, Mansbridge won the Gordon Sinclair Award, the Gemini award given for Best Overall Broadcast Journalism, in recognition of a remarkable year of reporting, interviewing and anchoring that included the fall of the Berlin Wall and the debate over the Meech Lake Accord. He won the Best Anchor/Interviewer Gemini for a third time in l992 for moderating the Town Hall: Hard Times, Hard Choices.

Born in London, England, in 1948, Mansbridge was educated in Ottawa and spent two years in the Royal Canadian Navy.