20 Facts About Avery Haines

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Avery Hayward Haines was born on 28 November 1966 and is an American-born, Canadian television journalist, and currently managing editor, investigative journalist, and host of CTV newsmagazine series W5.

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In late 1999, Avery Haines began to work as a fill-in anchor for CTV Newsnet.

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On 15 January 2000, Avery Haines made a mistake with a line while taping a report introduction.

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Avery Haines retaped the segment, but later that day, a CTV technician mistakenly aired the tape that included the error and the comment.

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Avery Haines was hired by Citytv Toronto as a health reporter with CityNews.

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On 15 September 2010, Avery Haines returned to Citytv as a senior reporter and anchor.

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In 2016, Avery Haines began to produce and shoot her own documentaries.

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On 12 October 2017, during the 5pm newscast, CityNews Avery Haines announced she would be leaving the organization.

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On 12 October 2017, CTV announced on social media that Avery Haines had accepted a job as a co-host and correspondent on its news magazine, W5.

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Since joining W5, Avery Haines has won and been nominated for numerous awards for her national and international long-format investigative documentaries.

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In 2020, Avery Haines won a Canadian Screen Award for "Best Host or Interviewer, News or Information" for the W5 investigation The Narco Riviera.

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Avery Haines was awarded the 2020 Canadian Screen Award for "Best News or Information Program" for W5: The Baby in the Snow.

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In 2021, Avery Haines was awarded the Canadian Screen Award for "Best News or Information Program" for the W5 investigation The Invisible Man.

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In 2022, Avery Haines won the Canadian Screen Award for "Best News or Information Program" for the W5 investigation: A Town Divided.

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Avery Haines is the sister of Emily Avery Haines, lead singer of the band Metric.

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Avery Haines came out as being in a same-sex relationship following the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, which occurred eight weeks and one day after she married her partner, Mel.

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In 2018, Avery Haines was nominated for two RTDNAs for documentaries shot by herself in Liberia and Iraq: 'My Penpal: The Warlord's Wife' and 'Two Kilometres to Terror: Life and Death Under ISIS'.

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In 2019, Avery Haines won the RTDNA Dan MCArthur Award for 'Investigative Journalism' for W5: No Witnesses, and the Innocence Canada Tracey Tyler Award for Justice for the Wrongly Convicted for W5: An Indigenous man's quest to clear his name.

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In 2021, Avery Haines won the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards for 'Best Host or Interviewer, News or Information' for W5: The Narco Riviera and 'Best News or Information Program' for W5: the Baby in the Snow.

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In 2021, Avery Haines was awarded the Canadian Screen Awards for 'Best News or Information Program' for the W5 investigation The Invisible Man.