Christopher Waddell
Professor Emeritus
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Biography
Christopher Waddell is 聽a professor emeritus, former director of the School of Journalism and Communication at 杏吧原创 and past holder of the school鈥檚 Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism. He was also the founding director of the School鈥檚 Bachelor of Media Production and Design program.
He joined 杏吧原创 in July 2001 after 10 years at CBC Television News where he was initially senior program producer for The National and from 1993 to 2001, Parliamentary Bureau Chief in Ottawa and also Executive Producer News Specials for the network.
Between 1984-91 he was at the聽Globe and Mail as a reporter in Report on Business, economics reporter in Ottawa covering among other things the Canada-US free trade negotiations, Ottawa bureau chief in the 1988 federal election and from 1989-91 he was associate editor and then national editor of the聽Globe.
He has won two National Newspaper Awards for business reporting and programs he supervised at CBC Television won six Gemini awards for television excellence.
He received a Ph. D in Canadian history from York University in Toronto in 1981, completing a thesis on price and wage controls and consumer rationing in Canada in World War II.
With the late Professor David Taras of Mount Royal University in Calgary, he is the author of The End of the CBC?, published by University of Toronto Press in March 2020. They also jointly edited and he was a contributor to聽How Canadians Communicate IV: Media and Politics聽published in May 2012 and聽How Canadians Communicate V: Sports in 2016, both published by Athabasca University Press.