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Kevin Newman (born June 2 1959 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 journalist and news anchor. Since 2001, he has been anchor of Global National
Global National

Global National is the national newscast of Global Television Network in Canada.The program's weekday anchor is Kevin Newman , whose name was added to the program's title from the start of its second season....
, and currently also hosts Global's weekly newsmagazine series Global Currents
Global Currents

Global Currents is a Canada news television series, which airs weekly on Global Television Network. Hosted by Kevin Newman , the series airs one documentary film each week....
.

Newman began his career in broadcasting at CHRW
CHRW-FM

94.9 CHRW is a Canada radio station, broadcasting at 94.9 FM radio in London, Ontario. It is licensed as a community-based campus radio station by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission....
 radio in London, Ontario, becoming the first News Director and working on Western Mustang football broadcasts as the campus station of the University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario. It is one of Canada's oldest universities, founded in 1878 by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth and the Anglican Diocese of Huron as The Western University of London Ontario....
 formally organised.






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Kevin Newman (born June 2 1959 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 journalist and news anchor. Since 2001, he has been anchor of Global National
Global National

Global National is the national newscast of Global Television Network in Canada.The program's weekday anchor is Kevin Newman , whose name was added to the program's title from the start of its second season....
, and currently also hosts Global's weekly newsmagazine series Global Currents
Global Currents

Global Currents is a Canada news television series, which airs weekly on Global Television Network. Hosted by Kevin Newman , the series airs one documentary film each week....
.

Newman began his career in broadcasting at CHRW
CHRW-FM

94.9 CHRW is a Canada radio station, broadcasting at 94.9 FM radio in London, Ontario. It is licensed as a community-based campus radio station by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission....
 radio in London, Ontario, becoming the first News Director and working on Western Mustang football broadcasts as the campus station of the University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario. It is one of Canada's oldest universities, founded in 1878 by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth and the Anglican Diocese of Huron as The Western University of London Ontario....
 formally organised. After graduating, he landed his first job as a reporter for Global Ontario
CIII-TV

CIII-TV is a television station owned by Canwest that serves much of the population of the Canada province of Ontario, featuring content localized for the city of Toronto....
 in 1981. In 1986, he moved to CTV
CTV television network

CTV is a Canadian English language television network. It is Canada's largest privately owned network, the main television asset of CTVglobemedia, one of the country's largest media conglomerates....
 as the network's parliamentary
Parliament of Canada

The Parliament of Canada is Canada's legislature, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. The Governor General of Canada appoints the 105 members of the upper house, the Canadian Senate, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Canada....
 correspondent, and in 1988 he joined the CBC as a reporter and anchor, hosting the CBC's Midday from 1992 to 1994. He was also a substitute anchor on The National
The National

The National, now officially known as CBC News: The National, is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship national television newscast....
.

In 1994, Newman moved to ABC News
ABC News

ABC News is a division of United States television and radio network American Broadcasting Company, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin....
 in the United States, where he anchored World News Now
World News Now

World News Now is American Broadcasting Company's overnight news program. Its tone is often lighthearted, irreverent, and humorous. A number of well-known news personalities, including Thalia Assuras , Aaron Brown , Kevin Newman , Alison Stewart , Liz Cho , and Anderson Cooper news presenter WNN early in their careers....
 until 1996 and served as a correspondent for World News Tonight. In 1998, he was named co-anchor, with Lisa McRee
Lisa McRee

Lisa McRee is an United States television journalist and former news anchor.She was a news anchor for WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, from 1989 to 1991 before becoming one of the original anchors, along with Aaron Brown, of ABC News' World News Now when the show launched in 1992....
, of Good Morning America
Good Morning America

Good Morning America is an Daytime Emmy Awards breakfast television talk show that is broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network, debuting on November 3, 1975....
. The show, which had been struggling in the ratings, continued to perform poorly, and Newman was reassigned in 1999 to other reporting duties within ABC.

In 2001, Global Television
Global Television Network

Global Television Network is a Canadian English language privately owned television network. It is owned by Canwest Media Inc., a division of Canwest which is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba....
 launched Global National, and hired Newman as its first anchor and executive editor.

Newman led a television first in Canada. In 2004, Global National with Kevin Newman hit the road on the "Decision Canada" Election
Canadian federal election, 2004

The Canadian federal election, 2004 , was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 38th Canadian Parliament of Canada....
 tour. The other networks followed suit with their own version of the tour. Later in 2004, Newman was the only Canadian anchor to anchor coverage of the U.S. presidential election
United States presidential election, 2004

The United States presidential election of 2004 was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004, to elect the President of the United States. It was the 55th consecutive quadrennial election for President and Vice President of the United States....
 from the United States, as Global National with Kevin Newman broadcast from the studios in the network's bureau in Washington.

Newman received the Gemini Award
Gemini Award

The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of television members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television....
 for Best News Anchor in 2005 & 2006. Newman, along with Global National's Kenton Boston, Doriana Temolo, Marc Riddell and Jason Keel won the Gemini Award for Best Newscast in 2007.

Newman also writes an online blog
Blog

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
, and occasional columns which appear in the National Post
National Post

The National Post is a Canada English language national newspaper based in Don Mills, Ontario, a district of Toronto, Ontario. The paper is owned by CanWest Global Communications and is published every Monday through Saturday....
.

In terms of ratings, Global National with Kevin Newman competes closely with CTV National News
CTV National News

CTV National News is CTV Television Network's flagship newscast, which airs at 11:00pm local time on the CTV stations across Canada, and live at 10:00pm ET, with repeats hourly up until 2am ET on CTV Newsnet, CTV's 24-hour cable news channel, and the previous day's can be seen on the Internet....
 as the most-watched national newscast in Canada.

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