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Top CNN news anchor hails from Winnipeg
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I have been watching this vivacious woman do the early news program on CNN for a while now. I finally decided to research her and lo and behold Ashleigh Banfield is from the good old Peg.
Ashleigh Banfield (born December 29, 1967 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian journalist who works for CNN and hosts the 11am hour of CNN Newsroom.
Prior to joining CNN, Banfield worked for MSNBC and reported from numerous overseas locations, including the Middle East and Central Asia. She received several Emmy Awards for her body of journalistic work, and criticized media coverage of the Iraq War in April 2003. She also hosted Disorder in the Court, Open Court and Hollywood Heat on Tru TV (formerly CourtTV), where she reported on domestic and pop culture issues. She was also briefly a law and justice correspondent on Good Morning America until October 2011. She also previously hosted CNN’s Early Start from January 2, 2012 to July 13, 2012. Banfield is now on CNN Newsroom.
She began her career in 1988 at CJBN-TV in Kenora, Ontario, and at CKY-TV in Winnipeg later that year. From 1989 to 1992, she anchored the weekend news for CFRN-TV in Edmonton, and from 1992 until 1995, at CICT-TV in Calgary, where she won two Iris Awards.
During her tenure at CICT, Banfield worked as a freelance associate producer for ABC’s World News Tonight. She covered the 1991 Bush/Gorbachev Summit in Russia and the 1992 Clinton/Yeltsin Summit in Vancouver.
Education
- Balmoral Hall School, 1985
- Queen’s University, BA (Political Science) 1988
- University of British Columbia, 1992
2012-10-12 17:40:30
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