Brian Stewart Biography

Brian Stewart was born on April 21, 1942, and he is a Canadian journalist. Stewart is most popular for his news reports and narrative highlights as Senior Correspondent of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) lead news hour, The National, where he worked for more than two decades.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Stewart spent quite a bit of his childhood in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and England. Stewart’s dad was the leader of the Simpsons retail chain.

He went to Upper Canada College and Thornton Hall in Toronto in 1958 and moved on from Ryerson’s School of Journalism in 1964.

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Stewart originally worked in print as a correspondent with the (presently ancient) Oshawa Times, the Richmond-Twickenham Times (UK), and The Montreal Gazette during that time 1964-71.

He previously joined the CBC in 1971 at CBMT Montreal as a large group of the dinner hour TV current issues program Hourglass. In 1973 he has delegated a national correspondent in Ottawa where he was the system’s outside issues and military master.

He turned into CBC’s outside journalist in London in 1982 where he worked until joining NBC as a remote reporter in 1985. Stewart came back to Canada in 1987 to turn into a senior columnist with the CBC’s The Journal, a post where he composed and facilitated a progression of specials on North American and world governmental issues.

Stewart has been one of Canada’s most unmistakable remote reporters. He secured a significant number of the world’s contentions and has announced from ten combat areas, from El Salvador and Beirut to Afghanistan.

During the Gulf War, he was the principal Canadian correspondent to get into the freed Kuwait City. In the Second Sudanese Civil War in 1989, his report on kid subjection, Sudan: Children of Darkness (with Tony Burman), won a few global honors, including the UNDA prize at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.

He has worked widely in immature nations and was the main North American columnist to concentrate the world’s consideration on the monstrous Ethiopian starvation of 1984-85 (additionally with Tony Burman).

In 1987, Stewart’s vocation was the subject of a significant narrative, The War Reporters, delivered by Brian McKenna.

“Having Brian Stewart on a story implied nobody would ever beat us,” says Mark Starowicz, maker and official maker of The Journal.

“It would consistently be splendid news coverage and it would consistently be head and shoulders over any reportage by some other writer on the planet covering that story.”

During the Ethiopian Famine of 1984, Stewart secured the close demise endurance of a three-year-old young lady Birhan Woldu, reports that made her the Face of Famine in 1985 and the subject of a celebrated video played during the Live Aid Concert.

Stewart later comes back to look for the young lady in Northern Ethiopia and kept on chronicling her life for more than two decades. The two were met on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2006.

Birhan Woldu, who stays dear companions of Stewart’s family, proceeded to move on from school with degrees in Agriculture and Nursing in Ethiopia.

The tale of Stewart’s disclosure of her is told in the 2012 book “Feed the World: Birhan Woldu and Live Aid” by British writer Oliver Harvey.

Over the span of his announcing profession, Stewart has met such driving world’s driving figures, including Margaret Thatcher, Lech Wałęsa, Nelson Mandela, and Henry Kissinger.

In 1994 he was made a large group of CBC current issues show The Magazine and later led broad meetings with newsmakers as host of two meetings appears, including CBC News: Our World. He was a regular back-up Anchor on The National to Host Peter Mansbridge.

Brian Stewart Age

He was born on April 21, 1942. He is 78 years old as of 2020.

Brian Stewart Wife

He is married to Tina Srebotnjak and the couple has a daughter together, Kathleen Stewart, born in 1993. They all live in Toronto.

Brian Stewart Height

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Brian Stewart Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of between $ 1 million and $ 5 million.