Hana Gartner CM is a retired Canadian investigative journalist who is best known as the host and interviewer of several programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
10 Facts About Hana Gartner
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Hana Gartner began her career as a radio host at Montreal's CJAD in 1970.
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Hana Gartner moved to Toronto the following year to work on the program In Good Company, alongside Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson, Nancy White, and Gene DiNovi.
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Hana Gartner became the host of CBC Radio's This Country in the Morning and replaced Judy LaMarsh in 1976.
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In 1982, Hana Gartner became co-host of the CBC's primetime TV newsmagazine, The Fifth Estate.
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Hana Gartner hosted the National Magazine portion of the programme, which has interviews, extended features, and documentaries and was the second half of the hour, following Mansbridge's newscast.
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Hana Gartner left The National, returned to The Fifth Estate in 2000, and remained with the programme for 11 years.
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On May 11,2011, Hana Gartner announced her retirement from the CBC.
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Hana Gartner has won five Gemini Awards and has been nominated 18 times in the Gemini hosting, anchoring, and interviewing categories during her career.
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Hana Gartner has twice won the special Gemini Gordon Sinclair Award for excellence in broadcast journalism: in 1985 and in 2006.