Duncan mccue biography
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Duncan&#;s story
An award-winning reporter for CBC’s The National and a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation, Duncan teaches a groundbreaking course at UBC called Reporting on Indigenous Communities.
How has UBC impacted your career path?
My experiences as a student at UBC informed my journalism career. For the past fifteen years I have been a features reporter for The National the Canadian public broadcaster’s nightly news and current affairs program. I report on everything from oil pipelines to federal budgets, but specialize on telling stories about Aboriginal issues.
Did UBC help prepare you for a career in journalism?
My UBC legal training has made me a more astute journalist. The Aboriginal students I met at UBC Law School continue to be some of my closest friends and have been invaluable contacts for reporting on First Nations issues.
Are you still involved with UBC?
Five or six years ago, I started teaching at the UBC Graduate School of
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Duncan McCue
Public Service ()
Georgina Island First Nation, Ontario
Award-winning reporter Duncan McCue is the host of CBC Radio One Cross Country Checkup. McCue was a reporter for CBC News in Vancouver for over 15 years. Now based in Toronto, his news and current affairs pieces continue to be featured on CBC&#;s flagship news show, The National.
McCue&#;s work has garnered several Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and Jack Webster Awards. He was part of a CBC Aboriginal investigation into missing and murdered Indigenous women that won numerous honours including the Hillman Award for Investigative Journalism.
McCue has spent years teaching journalism at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism and was recognized by the Canadian Ethnic Media Association with an Innovation Award for developing curriculum on Indigenous issues. He&#;s also an author: his book The Shoe Boy: A Trapline Memoir () recounts a årstid he spent in a hunting camp with a Cree family in no
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From to , Duncan McCue, Anishinaabe and a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation in southern Ontario, worked as a national reporter for CBC radio and television in Vancouver, frequently filing for The National.
Then in , McCue took over from Rex Murphy as host of CBC Radio's Cross Country Check-up, a position he held full-time until In , 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.
His first book, The Shoe Boy (Nonvella Publishing, ), written while he lived in Vancouver, is a memoir covering the five months he spent in a Cree hunting camp when he was seventeen. It was a pivotal time in McCue's life. The first chapter includes a story about an awards dinner McCue attends as an established journalist. Overhearing two producers talk about their camping experie