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Tony Burman
Job Title
 Managing Director
Company
 Al Jazeera English
Industry
 Pay-TV Channel
Country
 Doha, Qatar
Experience
 Tony Burman is one of Canada’s most respected journalists and media executives, with more than three decades experience in TV, radio, online and newspapers.

Until leaving the CBC last July, 2007, he oversaw Canada’s largest news organisation for nearly eight years as Editor in Chief and Executive Director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC News).

In his 35-year CBC career, he was also an award-winning news and documentary producer in more than 30 countries, spanning the Middle East, Europe, Africa, the United States and Latin America.

His professional history includes:

• 2000-2007, Editor in Chief of CBC News, Current Affairs and Newsworld

- Led reorganization of CBC’s formerly fragmented information services into a single, well-branded, integrated CBC NEWS division encompassing TV, Radio and Online.
- Oversaw CBC news and current affairs programming and implemented CBC journalistic policy across all CBC English-language media platforms.

• 1998- 2000, Head of CBC Newsworld, CBC’s all-news network, the world’s third oldest news channel behind CNN and the U.K.’s Sky Television.

- Achieved an audience share double that of its nearest Canadian competitor and renewed the program schedule, refocusing the network on its news roots and introduced a popular stream of current affairs and documentary programming.

• 1991-1998, Executive Producer, The National, Chief News Editor , CBC News.

- Chief producer of Canada’s leading network nightly news hour, introducing a multitude of program and format innovations. It consistently won major industry awards as Canada’s leading news program.

• 1986-91, Senior Documentary Producer for CBC’s nightly current affairs program, The Journal

- Produced many award-winning documentaries from the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Europe that were rebroadcast on the BBC, PBS and other international networks.

Selected Titles:

- 'Sudan: Children of Darkness' (1989), the first inside look at the kidnapping of children as part of Sudan's civil war.
- 'The Last Great Cause' (1986), a two-part examination of the legacy of the Spanish Civil War on its 50th anniversary.
- 'Mandela' (1986), one of the first television biographies of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, which was rebroadcast in 18 countries and included a dramatic reenactment of the 1964 Rivonia Trial which sent Mandela to jail.


• 1982-86, CBC News European Bureau Chief, London

- Covered stories in more than 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. One of the first journalists in Ethiopia during the Great Famine of 1984.
- Covered the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s, and events in Israel, Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East.
- Produced special coverage of the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
- Covered the imprisonment and eventual release of Nelson Mandela in South Africa.


Prior to that, he worked as a producer with CBC Radio and a newspaper reporter with The Montreal Star.
Notes
 He has received more than more than 100 awards for programming and network achievements in Canada, United States, Britain, France, Monte Carlo and Argentina.
   
 
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