17 Facts About Amanda Lang

Amanda Lang's stepfather, Donald Stovel Macdonald, was a federal Liberal Cabinet member.

Amanda Lang attended St Mary's Academy, a private Catholic girls' school in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Amanda Lang later studied architecture at the University of Manitoba.

Amanda Lang began her journalism career in print at The Globe and Mail in the InfoGlobe unit.

Amanda Lang then moved to the National Post as their New York correspondent.

Amanda Lang got her start in television with what was then RoBTV in 1999, in New York, before moving to CNN in 2000 where she reported from the New York Stock Exchange for American Morning, and anchored programs on CNN's then-financial network, CNNfn.

In 2010, Amanda Lang won a Gemini award in the category of Best Host or Interviewer in a News Information Program or Series.

Already touted as Peter Mansbridge's successor on The National, the 42-year-old Amanda Lang made Toronto Life's 2012 '50 Most Influential People in Toronto' annual list.

Amanda Lang became a host of Bloomberg TV Canada's Bloomberg North in early-2016.

Amanda Lang served as a member of the board of directors at Covenant House from 2017 to 2024, including as board chair.

Amanda Lang is a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, which primarily offers master's degrees in global affairs and public policy.

In 2012, Amanda Lang published her first book, The Power of Why: Simple Questions That Lead to Success.

In 2011, Amanda Lang hosted a panel on CBC's The National where she was assigned to determine the credibility of then NDP leader Jack Layton's election platform.

In December 2014, media website Canadaland reported evidence that earlier that year Amanda Lang had provided favorable CBC coverage to two companies, Manulife and Sun Life, without disclosing to viewers that each company had recently paid her for speaking engagements.

In January 2015, Canadaland ran stories noting that Amanda Lang participated in the coverage of the Royal Bank of Canada during its temporary foreign worker program scandal, including interviewing the then-CEO of the bank Gord Nixon, while having done speaking engagements at RBC sponsored events, promoting her own book, which featured a back cover endorsement from Nixon without disclosing she was in a relationship with a board member of the bank.

Later that day, Amanda Lang conceded in a piece in The Globe and Mail that she should have made on-air disclosures about her connection to RBC and stated that she agreed with the speaking engagement ban.

Jennifer McGuire, the general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News, launched an investigation of Amanda Lang's reporting on RBC that analyzed her coverage since 2013.