Neil Macdonald was born on 1957 and is a Canadian journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and a former senior correspondent for CBC News The National.
15 Facts About Neil Macdonald
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Neil Macdonald is married to former CTV News bureau Chief Joyce Napier.
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Neil Macdonald's father was Percy Macdonald, who served with the Canadian Army during World War II and helped liberate the Netherlands.
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Neil Macdonald is married to Joyce Napier, a former parliamentary bureau chief for CTV News.
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Neil Macdonald joined the CBC in 1988 and covered Canadian Parliament for approximately a decade.
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Neil Macdonald then served for five years as the network's chief Middle East correspondent.
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Neil Macdonald was involved in a public dispute with Canadian media mogul Leonard Asper in 2003.
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Neil Macdonald responded with a rebuttal in The Globe and Mail, accusing Asper of defamation and alleging editorial censorship in the Asper-owned CanWest media outlets.
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In November 2010, Neil Macdonald led a CBC investigation into the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which had been mandated with solving the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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In 2014, Neil Macdonald harshly criticized Linden MacIntyre, a former CBC employee, after MacIntyre made comments about the CBC in regard to the Jian Ghomeshi incident.
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In 2015, Neil Macdonald moved back to Canada after 17 years in the United States, 12 of which he spent in Washington, DC as the Washington bureau correspondent for The National.
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Neil Macdonald produced editorial articles for the CBC's website, as well as appearing as a senior correspondent for The National before he retired in December 2019.
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In 1988, Neil Macdonald received a Centre for Investigative Journalism Award honorable mention for the 1987 story "CSIS: Making a cop into a spy just doesn't fly" in the Ottawa Citizen.
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In 2004, Neil Macdonald received a Gemini Award for his reportage on political violence in Haiti.
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Neil Macdonald was awarded a second "best reportage" Gemini in 2009 for his coverage of the US 2007 economic crisis.