This is Holly Hunter playing me in Broadcast News
When I was six years old, I decided I wanted to be a reporter. When I was seven, I had my birthday party at the CBC studios in my hometown of Halifax. And when I was eight, I wrote to the CBC and asked if I could have a job. The letter HR sent back, thanking me for my interest and asking her to wait ten years, is still in my mom’s basement. I waited exactly ten years, and then, in the tallest turret of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier studios, I got my start as the traffic reporter.
Over two decades at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, I’ve been lucky to work all the beats: local news, arts, religion, technology, current affairs, classical music, comedy, sports and documentary.
Currently, I’m the creator and executive producer of CBC’s news quiz, Because News. Every week, host Gavin Crawford quizzes comedians about the news. The radio show and podcast reaches a million Canadians each week. The #becausenews hashtag on TikTok has over 20 million views.