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Macdonald, Larry - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304277

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1982-02-15

Item number (ISN):

304277

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1982-0285

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1982-02-15

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Paul Follis

Description:

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Paul Follis interviews Larry Macdonald, CBC editor. Macdonald discusses: his education; his interest in reading and radio; his journalistic experience with the army during WWII; initial work in radio with CHAB Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan from 1950-1953; interest in writing plays for CBC radio in the early 1950s with his wife; work at radio station CFRA in Ottawa from 1953-1955; transfer to CBOT Ottawa in the regional news department; coverage of pipeline debate in 1955-1956 when the Speaker of the House was forced to resign; early days of covering news from Parliament Hill before membership in the press gallery; status of Parliament Hill reporters today and problems due to numbers, and difficulty of getting film and audio from Parliament Hill on the air; tasks of reporter in CBC regional news operation; description of regional news staff working conditions; changes during expansion in 1950s and 1960s; influence of men such as Bill Hogg on reporting style of radio news and news writing techniques for radio and television; competition between radio and TV in the 1950s; his promotion as acting editor of local TV news operations in the mid-1960s; 1970, Assignment Editor of CBC news; 1977, Editor of CBC news program THIS WEEK IN PARLIAMENT; CBC news operation in general; and private network news operations. <28mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Ottawa.

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Vault ISN:

339720

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03499

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Reproduction access:

to be cleared with Advisory Committee of CBC Oral History Project until December 1987 - thereafter no restrictions

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