Don McNeill (1934 – June 27, 2015) was a Canadian journalist . He was a foreign correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and CBS News .
Life and career
He was born in 1934.[ 1] He was from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador .[ 1] He studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland , the Technical University of Nova Scotia , and Oxford University .[ 1] At Oxford, he played basketball for an unofficial team he started.[ 1]
While in the United Kingdom , he worked for the Daily Mail .[ 1] After returning home to Canada, McNeill began working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . He was the CBC's correspondent in Washington, D.C. and worked for Newsmagazine .[ 1] He reported on the Vietnam War , the Watergate scandal , and the Iranian Revolution for the CBC.[ 1] McNeil later moved to the United States , where he worked for CBS News until 1987.[ 1] He was the CBS News correspondent at Moscow .[ 1] He later worked for Christian Science Monitor Television .[ 1]
He got a Rhodes Scholarship in 1958.[ 1] He got a Nieman Fellowship in 1981.[ 1] [ 2] In 1984, he won the George Polk Award for Network Television Reporting for his "unusual glimpses of Soviet life".[ 3] He was nominated for the 1988 News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding Interview/Interviewers - For Programs" as a producer and correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Reports .[ 4] He won the 1990 News and Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding Informational, Cultural or Historical Programming (segments)" as a correspondent of a World Monitor segment on the Soviet Union .[ 1] [ 5]
He was a journalism teacher at Boston University .[ 1]
His wife Sandra Allik produced her husband's Emmy-winning report.[ 1] [ 5] She once said that his husband's award was "a bigger deal than an Emmy ".[ 1]
He died on June 27, 2015 in Boston , aged 80.[ 1]
References
↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 "N.L. native broke news from around the world" . The Telegram . SaltWire Network . October 3, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
↑ Jim Stewart (June 22, 2015). " "A roman candle career": Jim Stewart, NF '81, reflects on the tough-minded reporting of his Nieman classmate, Donald McNeill". Nieman Reports . Harvard University .
↑ "14 Journalism Awards Announced by L.I.U." . The New York Times . March 4, 1984. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved June 23, 2020 . Don McNeill, a Moscow-based CBS News correspondent, won the network television reporting award for providing what the citation said were unusual glimpses of Soviet life.
↑ "1988 NATIONAL NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS - THE NOMINATIONS" (PDF) (Press release). National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences . c. 1989. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-28. Retrieved 2020-08-27 .
↑ 5.0 5.1 "THE NOMINATIONS - The 1990 News and Documentary Emmy Awards" (PDF) (Press release). National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences . c. 1991. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-28. Retrieved 2020-08-27 .