Peter Mansbridge

Peter Mansbridge is the Chief Correspondent of CBC Television News. In that role, he anchors CBC's flagship nightly news program, The National, and CBC News Specials. He is also the host of Mansbridge: One on One, Sundays on CBC Newsworld.

Mansbridge began his career in 1968 in Churchill, Manitoba, where he helped develop CBC Radio's news service to northern Canada. In 1971 he moved to Winnipeg as a reporter for CSC radio and the following year he joined CBC Television news. He became The National's reporter in Saskatchewan in 1975 and, in 1976 became a parliamentary correspondent for The National in Ottawa.

He became Chief Correspondent and anchor of The National in May 1988.

During his more than 30-year career with CBC News, Mansbridge has provided comprehensive coverage of some of the most significant stories in Canada and around the world. Nationally, he has anchored live coverage of eight federal elections, five e leadership conventions, referendums in 1992 (Charlottetown) and 1995 (Quebec), the 1997 floods in Manitoba, and the Quebec and Ontario ice storms of 1998. Mansbridge has also anchored coverage of such international events as the Falklands War, the Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, numerous royal and papal visits and the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 1994, he reported extensively from Normandy, 50 years after D-Day; and in 1995, from Holland and England on the 50th anniversary of VE-day.

Mansbridge has received seven Gemini Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism. He has won the Gemini for Best Anchor five times, more times than anyone else. He has also won the Gemini for Best Overall Broadcast Journalist - the prestigious Gordon Sinclair Award- twice.

Mansbridge has also been honoured by a number of institutes of higher learning. He has received an honourary Bachelor of Applied Communications from Mount Royal College In Calgary, Alberta, an honourary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and an honourary Doctor of Laws degree at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. He was also named the 1998 Arnold Wolfers' Fellow at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Born in London, England in 1948, Mansbridge was educated in Ottawa and served in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1966 and 1967.