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Jackson, Leslie - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304178

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1983-06-06

Item number (ISN):

304178

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1984-0138

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1983-06-06

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Ross Eaman

Description:

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Ross Eaman interviews Leslie Jackson, CBC news editor. Jackson discusses: his background and education; his entry into CBC as copy boy for the brand new CBC national news service; characters of the Winnipeg newsroom; the first day of radio, New Year's Day, 1941; Dan MacArthur, first Chief News Editor; becoming first night staff member; national newscasts; his war experiences; the accepted broadcast style of the era; return to CBC Winnipeg after war; university education with aid of Veteran's Administation; transfer to Toronto and full editor's position; responsibilities of editor; use of wire service; Winnipeg flood of 1950; extension of news service; NEWS ROUNDUP; transfer to Vancouver newsroom; television news; jealousies between radio and television personnel; changeover in leadership of the news service from Dan MacArthur to William Hogg; personalities of Vancouver newsroom; evolution of broadcast journalism; equipment and technological change; differences between radio and TV news reporting; his first TV work in 1954; becoming editor of TV news department; guidelines for news reporting; unionization; his work as union organizer for Canadian Wire Services Guild, local of American Newspapers Guild; other organizers; first contract; degree of militancy; relations with management; relations among unions; change from news-readers to announcers who were journalists, and union ramifications; budgets for news service; separation of news and current affairs; the objections of the news supervisors' association to This Hour Has Seven Days; typical staffing of newsroom; becoming news supervisor in 1964; appointment of a full-time news producer; changes to format of news presentation; technological developments generated by staff; presentation of politics on the news; role of regional correspondents of national news service; beats/areas of interest; national news stories produced regionally; Jackson being fired; the firing of Bill Cunningham; success and innovation of Vancouver news programs such as HOURGLASS, half-hour news and current affairs program; his opinion of CBC President George Davidson who had been sent from Treasury Board; and the impact of CBC decentralization under Davidson and Laurent Picard.~Jackson also comments on: the controversy over commercials during news and information shows; budget for news programming; 1975 review of TV news operation; "yellow journalism" in current affairs programming; Jackson and others complaining to George Davidson; THIS HOUR HAS SEVEN DAYS; division of radio and TV news departments; and the reliability of broadcast news. <2h 5mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Vancouver.

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Vault ISN:

339623

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03774

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~Originally closed for 5 years from date of interview.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Originally closed for 5 years from date of interview.~Accession form states: available for research, copying, or broadcast five years after date of interview. Copyright MAY have been waived - to be confirmed.

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