Linden macintyre biography of barack

Cape Breton University is honoured to celebrate the distinguished career and accomplishments of Linden Joseph MacIntyre, an award winning Cape Breton journalist, broadcaster and novelist, who has had a stellar career and continues to reach new milestones. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. FX University.

Linden Joseph MacIntyre (born May 29, ) is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist.

The newspaper industry is where Mr. MacIntyre began his career as a journalist, working for the Halifax Herald as a parliamentary reporter in Ottawa from to He continued in a similar role with the Financial Times of Canada from to In late , he moved back to Cape Breton, where for six years he worked as a correspondent for the Chronicle Herald.

In , Mr. It was while working with this program that he launched a successful legal challenge before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia over affidavits and documents relating to search warrants. Later heard before the Supreme Court of Canada, the successful suit was a landmark case, which set a precedent in support of public and media access to information in Canada.

This appointment took him around the world preparing documentary reports on international affairs. He held various jobs at the CBC throughout the eighties and in , was appointed co-host of the weekly newsmagazine, the fifth estate , with which he is still involved.

Linden Joseph MacIntyre, writer and journalist (b at St. Lawrence, NL 29 May ).

Beyond his journalistic work, Mr. MacIntyre is an accomplished and award winning author. He has won nine Gemini Awards, an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence. Through all of this, Mr.