Paul Kennedy is a broadcast journalist who worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is a veteran broadcaster and award-winning documentarist, and is best known for being the host of the program Ideas on CBC Radio One from 1999 to his retirement in 2019.[1]

Paul Kennedy
Born
Alma mater
OccupationJournalist
EmployerCanadian Broadcasting Corporation
Notable workIdeas (1999–2019)

In 1977, he researched and wrote his first documentary segment (on the subject of the fur trade), titled The Fur Trade Revisited.[2] This was featured in an Ideas series entitled Red Man, White World.

While hosting Ideas, Kennedy continued to do documentary work.

Education

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Born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario,[3] Kennedy has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and a Master of Letters degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has also done postgraduate work at the University of Toronto, where he studied with the media theoretician Marshall McLuhan.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "CBC News foreign correspondent Nahlah Ayed to host CBC Radio's Ideas - The veteran journalist will take over from Paul Kennedy in September".
  2. ^ a b c d e "About the Host". CBC Radio-Canada. 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
  3. ^ "CBC Ideas: Paul and Ed's Excellent Adventure in #OurHomeSTC". 16 January 2019.
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