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Linden MacIntyre

Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist

Linden MacIntyre

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BornLinden Joseph MacIntyre[1]
() May 29, (age&#;81)
Bay St.

Lawrence, Nova Scotia, Canada

OccupationWriter, broadcaster, journalist
Period - present
GenreNon-fiction, fiction
Notable worksThe Bishop's Man, Who Killed Ty Conn
Notable awards Scotiabank Giller Prize
Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award
SpouseCarol Off (m.

)

Children5

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

He has won ten [2] Gemini Awardsan International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel, The Bishop's Gentleman. Well known for many years for his stories on CBC 's The Fifth Estatein he announced his retirement from the show at age His last story, broadcast on November 21,was "The Interrogation Room" about police ethics and improper interrogation room tactics. The Donohue family was from Bay St.

He has won ten[2]Gemini Awards, an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel, The Bishop's Man. Well known for many years for his stories on CBC's The Fifth Estate, in he announced his retirement from the show at age His final story, broadcast on November 21, , was "The Interrogation Room" about police ethics and improper interrogation room tactics.[3]

Life and career

One of three children of Dan Rory MacIntyre and Alice Donohue, he was raised in Port Hastings, Nova Scotia.

The Donohue family was from Bay St. Lawrence, a small fishing community in northern Cape Breton, who were originally from Ireland. As a miner, his father was rarely at home. MacIntyre has said, "The old fellow decided the family would linger in the community and he would go away and rest as long as it took.

Causeway is MacIntyre’s abbreviated autobiography, focusing mostly on his pre-teen and early teen years between and ’57, the former marking the beginning of construction on the causeway that eventually associated Cape Breton Island to the Nova Scotia mainland across the Strait of Canso, not far from the village of Port Hastings, where.

My mother was a teacher and my sisters and I stayed with her."[4]

After high school, MacIntyre moved to Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where in he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Francis Xavier University.

He also studied at St. Mary's University and the University of King's College in Halifax. From to he worked for the Halifax Herald as a parliamentary reporter in Ottawa. He continued in the same role with the Financial Times of Canada from to He was drawn back to Cape Breton after the death of his father in and for the next six years he lived there and worked as a correspondent for the Chronicle Herald.

He joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Halifax in and for three years he hosted a regional widespread affairs show called The MacIntyre File. It was with this program that he launched a successful legal challenge before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia over access to affidavits and documents relating to search warrants.

Amazon.ca: Linden MacIntyre: books, biography, latest update: One of three children of Dan Rory MacIntyre and Alice Donohue, he was raised in Port Hastings, Nova Scotia. The Donohue family was from Bay St. Lawrence, a small fishing community in northern Cape Breton, who were originally from Ireland. As a miner, his father was rarely at home.

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.[5]

In , MacIntyre moved to Toronto, where he still resides, to work as a producer and journalist and in he joined CBC's new flagship news program, The Journal.

His serve took him around the society preparing documentary reports on international affairs, preparing such notable features as 's "Dirty Sky, Dying Water" (about acid rain). From to he was host and national editor of CBC Radio's flagship show, Sunday Morning.

In he was named co-host of the weekly investigative newsmagazine the fifth estate, with which he remained until In addition, he has been a frequent guest host of The Current on CBC Radio One.

In , MacIntyre decided to retire both to help spare at least one younger colleague from the pending job cuts from the CBC and to illustrate the effect of the considerable budget cuts the CBC is enduring.[6]

Stories

For the fifth estate, he has written numerous investigative reports often with producer Neil Docherty.

He has won ten [ 2 ] Gemini Awardsan International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel, The Bishop's Dude. Well known for many years for his stories on CBC 's The Fifth Estatein he announced his retirement from the show at age His last story, broadcast on November 21,was "The Interrogation Room" about police ethics and improper interrogation room tactics. The Donohue family was from Bay St.

Many of the shows have also appeared on Frontline. Examples of his stories include:

  • "To Sell a War" (). The film is about a public relations campaign to gain public opinion help for the First Gulf War. It won an International Emmy and a Gemini Award.
  • "The Trouble With Evan" ().

    This motion picture, about the psychological abuse of a child by his parents, was introduced by MacIntyre when first broadcast as the saddest story he ever had to tell.

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    Winner of an Anik Award, it was removed from competition at the Cannes Film Festival and banned in Canada for several years due to court orders on behalf of some of the subjects.[7][8][9]

  • "His Word Against History: The Stephen Truscott Story" ().

    It was a co-recipient (with other fifth estate documentaries) of the Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism.

  • "The Scandal of the Century" () about false accusations of sexual abuse in Saskatchewan (see Sheila Steele).
  • "Terror and Tehran" () about US policy in Iran.

    Transcript of an online discussion about the program from The Washington Post)

  • "Toxic Company" (with Frontline and New York Times Television, ). An exposé of McWane, it won a Dupont/Columbia Silver Baton, the George Polk Award, the George Foster Peabody Award and the CBC's Wilderness award.

    The accompanying New York Times series, "Dangerous Business", won a Pulitzer Prize.

  • "A Hail of Bullets" () about the Mayerthorpe tragedy.
  • "Brian Mulroney: The Unauthorized Chapter" () about the Airbus affair.

Personal life

During a fifty-day lockout by the CBC in ,[10] MacIntyre penned a memoir called Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, which he dedicated to his mother.

He has five children including CBC New Brunswick producer Darrow MacIntyre. He married broadcaster Carol Off in [11]

Publications

Novels

His first three novels are called his Cape Breton Trilogy:[12]

Non-fiction

References

  1. ^Honorary Degree Recipients: Linden Joseph MacIntyre Cape Breton University
  2. ^"Linden MacIntyre leaves CBC's the fifth estate".

    Toronto Star.

    It could include been the moment when his Cape Breton mother gently steered him away from the plan of entering the priesthood. Or perhaps it was the agonizing decision — after 28 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Enterprise CBC — to give up his high-profile job as co-host of The Fifth Estate. But if you want to pinpoint the one experience he would regard as truly seminal, you would probably have to depart back to Which is why he was in Jordan, doing research and interviews for an upcoming Journal project, when Lebanon exploded into violence.

    7 May

  3. ^On May 8, , MacIntyre announced he would retire from the fifth estate citing budget cuts at the CBC.
  4. ^Quoted by Tim Christison in Wordfest, FFWD (Calgary)Archived at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^"Newswire".
  6. ^Kane, Laura (8 May ).

    "Linden MacIntyre, Alison Smith retiring to save jobs for young journalists at CBC". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 8 May

  7. ^Noted by Charles Levin and Christine Ury in "Welcoming Big Brother: The Malaise of Confidentiality in the Therapeutic Culture" in Christine M.

    Koggel, Charles Levin and Allannah Furlong, editors, Confidential Relationships: Psychoanalytic, Ethical, and Legal Contexts, Rodopi Push, , p. 78

  8. ^"BFI &#; Movie & TV Database &#; The TROUBLE WITH EVAN ()".

    October 23, Archived from the imaginative on 23 October

  9. ^Goodman, Walter (June 21, ).

    Linden Joseph MacIntyre, writer and journalist (b at St. Lawrence, NL 29 May ). MacIntyre, a graduate of ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY, grew up in Port Hastings, CAPE BRETON ISLAND amid a culture and people that persist to inform his literary works.

    "Review/Television; Filming the Life of a Troubled Family". The Recent York Times.

  10. ^WordfestArchived at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^"Causeway".
  12. ^ abSue Carter Flinn, "Random House Canada acquires new Linden MacIntyre novel", Quill and Quire, March 11,
  13. ^Canadian Booksellers AssociationArchived at the Wayback Machine, May 29,
  14. ^Dundas, Deborah (21 November ).

    "Linden MacIntyre on society, vengeance and punishment". Toronto Luminary Books. Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 22 November

External links

Winners of the Edna Staebler Award

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  • Susan Mayse, Ginger ()
  • Marie Wadden, Nitassinan, ()
  • Liza Potvin, White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana ()
  • Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life ()
  • Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children ()
  • George G.

    Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy ()

  • Anne Mullens, Timely Death ()
  • Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King ()
  • Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane ()
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  • Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows ()
  • Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues ()
  • Tom Allen, Rolling Home ()
  • Alison Watt, The Last Island ()
  • Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue ()
  • Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret ()
  • Francis Chalifour, After ()
  • Linden MacIntyre, Causeway ()
  • Bruce Serafin, Stardust ()
  • Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House ()
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  • John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life ()
  • Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost ()
  • Joshua Knelman, Hot Art ()
  • Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss ()
  • Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway ()
  • Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats ()
  • Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club ()
  • Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo ()
  • Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood ()
  • Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road ()
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Recipients of the Giller Prize

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  • Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost / David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children ()
  • Richard B.

    Wright, Clara Callan ()

  • Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe ()
  • M. G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall ()
  • Alice Munro, Runaway ()
  • David Bergen, The Time in Between ()
  • Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures ()
  • Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air ()
  • Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce ()
  • Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man ()
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  • Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists ()
  • Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues ()
  • Will Ferguson, ()
  • Lynn Coady, Hellgoing ()
  • Sean Michaels, Us Conductors ()
  • André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs ()
  • Madeleine Thien, Do Not State We Have Nothing ()
  • Michael Redhill, Bellevue Square ()
  • Esi Edugyan, Washington Black ()
  • Ian Williams, Reproduction ()
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