5 Tim Knight Quotes

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"Tim Knight" is an international journalism trainer, filmmaker and communications consultant based in Toronto. He’s won both New York Emmy Awards/New York Emmy and Sigma Delta Chi Award/Sigma Delta Chi awards for journalism.

He’s worked for three newspapers, United Press International, American Broadcasting Company/ABC, NBC and PBS, was executive producer for CBC News in Ottawa, and for 10 years lead trainer and executive producer, CBC TV Journalism Training. He has led broadcast journalism training workshops for thousands of working journalists at hundreds of workshops in more than a dozen countries.

He also produced CBC’s flagship news program The National (CBC)/The National. In July 2011, the Canadian Journalism Foundation published his article criticizing The National. In it, he wrote the program has lost its dedication to both public service and journalistic integrity.

Knight currently writes the media column "Watching the Watchdog" for The Huffington Post/The Huffington Post Canada. In his column "Save Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/CBC, Kill The National (CBC)/The National" he argues that CBC Radio's Dispatches (radio program)/Dispatches and the network's Connect with Mark Kelley should have been spared from CBC's 2012 budget cuts and The National (CBC)/The National should have been cancelled instead.