John Warren (journalist): Difference between revisions

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'''John Warren''' (b.born 1937)was is a CBCretired hostjournalist and the English language anchor<ref name="Gossage1987">{{cite book|last=Gossage|first=Patrick|title=Close to the charisma: my years between the press and Pierre Elliott Trudeau|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=E5AIU2qChy0C&pg=PA69|accessdateaccess-date=8 August 2011|date=1987-01-01|publisher=Formac Publishing Company|isbn=9780887801488978-0-88780-148-8|pages=69–}}</ref> of the [[CBC Parliamentary Television Network]] in betweenfrom 1979 andto 1992. In the 1980s and 1990s he wrote a weekly column for the ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'' newspaper called ''Commons Sense''. Prior to his role as host of the Parliamentary Television Network, he was a CBC radio and television reporter. John Warren was elected president of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1977 and served as President of the National Press Club in 1986. John graduated from Carleton University with a B.J. degree in 1960. His career in journalism began with the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix in 1958 after which he moved on to the Edmonton Journal, the Canadian Press, a year as chairman of the journalism department at Mount Royal College in Calgary and then the CBC in 1965. He served as a reporter in Edmonton, Calgary and Regina before his posting to Pariament Hill in 1971. During his service in Edmonton he was elected president of the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery. He held a similar post in the Saskatchewan Legislature Press Gallery while in Regina.