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Duncan McCue is a Canadian television and radio journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is Anishinaabe (Ojibway), from Ontario, a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation.[1][2] A longtime reporter for CBC Television's The National,[3] he was the host of CBC Radio One's radio call-in show Cross Country Checkup from 2016 to 2020, and the first Indigenous person to host a mainstream show at the public broadcaster.[4] He lives in Toronto.[5]
He took a sabbatical from the CBC in 2020 to take a journalism fellowship with Massey College;[6] he has since returned to the CBC in other roles, including as host of a podcast on the history of the Indian residential school system, as a summer guest host of The Current, and as the host of a new weekly program on audio documentaries slated to premiere in fall 2022.[7] In 2023, McCue announced that he would be leaving the CBC to join Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication as an Associate Professor to lead a certificate course on Indigenous journalism.[8]
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- ^ "Vancouver's top videographers share their secrets". Vancouver Sun, October 26, 2013.
- ^ "CBC Radio Announces New Host of ‘Cross Country Checkup’" Archived 2016-07-27 at the Wayback Machine. Broadcaster, July 26, 2016.
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- ^ "Weekly Briefing". Broadcast Dialogue, June 18, 2020.
- ^ "Revolving Door". Broadcast Dialogue, July 7, 2022.
- ^ "Duncan McCue Joins Carleton's Journalism Program Full-time to Create More Indigenous Storytelling". Carelton Newsroom. Carelton University. 27 February 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2023.