Editing Carole MacNeil

{{Short description|Canadian journalist}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=June 2021}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Carole MacNeil
| birth_date         = {{Birth based on age as of date|30|1994|08|13}}<ref name="WindsorStar"/>
| birth_place        = 
| occupation         = Journalist, news presenter
| television         = ''[[CBC News: Sunday Night]]'' (2002—2009)<br/>CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil (2002—2021)
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Richard Stursberg]]|2009}}
}}
'''Carole MacNeil''' is a Canadian [[Broadcast journalism|television journalist]], known for her work with the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] which spanned over thirty years.

MacNeil began her career anchoring local news programs in New Brunswick and Ontario in the early 1990s, before joining [[CBC Newsworld]] in 1998. Her most recent program was ''CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil'', a daytime news program on [[CBC News Network]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil|url=https://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/cbc_rundown_with_carole_macneil|access-date=2021-06-14|website=CBC Program Guide}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Carole MacNeil|url=https://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/bio/carole-macneil|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-14|website=CBC Media Centre|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020204206/http://www.cbc.ca:80/mediacentre/bio/carole-macneil |archive-date=October 20, 2017 }}</ref>

==Biography==
MacNeil grew up in [[Cape Breton Island|Cape Breton, Nova Scotia]].<ref name="WindsorStar" /> From 1990 to 1994, she worked at CBC affiliate station [[CBAT-DT|CHSJ-TV]] in [[Fredericton, New Brunswick]], where she was a co-anchor for the evening news program and the host of a current affairs program.<ref name="WindsorStar" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=1998-08-01|title=CBC's MacNeil moves on|pages=57|work=[[The Windsor Star]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79569977/cbcs-macneil-moves-on/|access-date=2021-06-14}}</ref> In October 1994, she moved to [[Windsor, Ontario]], where she became the anchor of the local evening newscast on [[CBET-DT|CBET]], the local CBC station.<ref name="WindsorStar">{{Cite news|last=Shaw|first=Ted|date=1994-08-13|title=Getting To Know You|pages=37|work=[[The Windsor Star]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79562432/getting-to-know-you/|access-date=2021-06-14}}</ref> MacNeil replaced David Kyle as the station's late-night news anchor in February 1996, becoming the anchor of both the evening and late-night newscasts.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shaw|first=Ted|date=1996-02-22|title=New look for CBET|pages=17|work=The Windsor Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79564059/new-look-for-cbet/|access-date=2021-06-14}}</ref> Leaving the Windsor station in August 1998, she joined [[CBC Newsworld]] as a co-anchor of the CBC morning news program with [[Ralph Benmergui]].<ref name=":0" />

In 2000, MacNeil helped launch ''[[Canada Now]]'', the supper hour news program on CBC Television.

In February 2002, MacNeil and [[Evan Solomon]] became the host of ''[[CBC News: Sunday Night]]'', an hour-long prime time news broadcast on CBC Television, as well as on CBC Newsworld.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Atherton|first=Tony|date=2002-02-21|title=Debut of CBC News: Sunday looks promising|pages=65|work=[[The Ottawa Citizen]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79568798/debut-of-cbc-news-sunday-looks/|access-date=2021-06-14|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> CBC News Sunday won several Gemini Awards. At the [[24th Gemini Awards]] in 2009, one of MacNeil's reports for ''CBC News: Sunday Night'' was nominated for "Best Lifestyle/practical information segment".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-06-13|title=24th ANNUAL GEMINI AWARDS / FULL LIST OF NOMINATIONS & WINNERS|url=http://www.geminiawards.ca/Gemini24/press/GEM24FullListNominationsandWinners.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613232813/http://www.geminiawards.ca/Gemini24/press/GEM24FullListNominationsandWinners.pdf|archive-date=2011-06-13|access-date=2021-06-14}}</ref> The program was cancelled in May 2009 during a restructuring of CBC News by CBC executive [[Richard Stursberg]], who MacNeil married weeks later in June 2009.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Dixon|first=Guy|date=2009-06-15|title=Major changes ahead at CBC News|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/major-changes-ahead-at-cbc-news/article4212298/|access-date=2021-06-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Govani|first=Shinan|date=2009-06-01|title=Out the door, but then down the aisle|pages=19|work=National Post|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79563636/out-the-door-but-then-down-the-aisle/|access-date=2021-06-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Bradshaw|first=James|date=June 2, 2009|title=CBC's Stursberg to marry TV news host MacNeil|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/cbcs-stursberg-to-marry-tv-news-host-macneil/article4275282/|access-date=2021-06-14}}</ref>

<!-- During her time at CBC News Sunday MacNeil has won gold at the New York Television festival for a story on exorcism in the Catholic Church, and she won another award for her documentary on nuclear power. She was been nominated for several Gemini Awards. MacNeil has also hosted Sunday Report, the nightly Sunday national newscast. She has covered many major stories both domestically and internationally, including, live reporting from the crash scene during 9 11, the war in Afghanistan and the drug cartel wars in Mexico. -->
In 2011, the CBC Ombudsman was called to review MacNeil's on-air statements concerning the [[Six-Day War|Six Day War]]. Upon review the "CBC acknowledged it was misleading for [MacNeil] to assert that neighbouring countries attacked Israel."<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/pdf/2011-08-26-Rida.pdf], August 26, 2011.</ref>

MacNeil joined the CBC in May 1987, and celebrated her 25th anniversary in 2012. From October 2012 to September 2013, MacNeil took a leave of absence and studied abroad in France.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}

In October 2021, MacNeil announced that she would be departing from CBC News later that month.<ref>{{Cite tweet|number=1445455310424973316|user=carolemacneil|title=Well. It's official. I just wanted to let you know, I am leaving CBC News later this month. I will have more to say later, but I am so grateful for my time with @CBCNews . Last day October 26. (missingyoualready)|author=Carole MacNeil}}</ref> Her last broadcast on ''CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil'' took place on October 26, 2021.<ref>{{Cite tweet|number=1452995091027668998|user=carolemacneil|title=Tonight will be my last show on CBC News Network. I'll say a proper goodbye near the end of my program The Rundown,  which starts at 4pm et @CBCNews . I hope you'll join me.|author=Carole MacNeil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Taylor-Vaisey|first=Nick|title=Justin Trudeau's big reveal|url=https://politi.co/3jEfw48|access-date=2021-10-28|website=POLITICO|language=en}}</ref>

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