Joan Donaldson

Joan Donaldson
Joan Donaldson
Born	Joan Marsha Donaldson; 23 April 1946; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died	7 September 2006 (aged 60); Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canada
Occupation	journalist
Years active	1967-1990
Spouse(s)	Arthur Gelgoot (during 1980s)

Joan Marsha Donaldson (23 April 1946 – 7 September 2006) was a Canadian journalist, and was the founding head of CBC Newsworld (now CBC News Network). She came to Newsworld from CBC's main network.

Biography

Born in Toronto, Donaldson first joined the CBC in 1967 as an editor with National Radio News. During her time with CBC Radio, she served as Senior Editor of The World at Six, Sunday Morning Magazine and various news specials. She reported from Viet Nam during the war, and later produced Michael Maclear's Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War, a series of documentary films on the conflict. In 1971, Donaldson went to CBC Winnipeg as the producer of the popular early evening news show 24 Hours.

Two years later, she returned to the network in Toronto as a producer on Newsmagazine and news specials.

After a five-year stint as a field producer on CTV's W5, Donaldson joined Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1975 as an instructor in Broadcast Journalism, in addition to teaching at the University of Western Ontario in the Journalism Program for Native People.

During the 1980s, she was married to Arthur Gelgoot (d. 2004), an accountant. The couple divorced.

Donaldson returned to the CBC in 1985 as Co-ordinator of Regional Programming, TV News and Current Affairs. She was appointed head of CBC Newsworld during its inception stages in 1987 and oversaw the launch of the new specialty service in 1989.

Death and legacy

In October 1990, Donaldson was hit by a bicyclist in Montreal. She suffered brain damage and was in a coma for two years; left a quadriplegic, she was unable to continue her career.

She was 60 years old when she died from complications of her injuries, in Victoria, British Columbia, 7 September 2006.

The Donaldson Scholarship is dedicated to her invaluable contributions to Canadian journalism.

gollark: If the Islamic god does exist approximately as described, I would want a better one.

gollark: You don't. God DOES. They are omnipotent. Definitionally, they can do and can know anything.

gollark: (this is a different argument to "does said god actually exist" obviously, but the evidence there seems to be bad too)

gollark: I don't think they should be all-judging, and I don't think eternal torture is right ever.

gollark: The Islamic god is claimed to be omnipotent, I think. Thus, they know *in advance* if someone is going to go to hell or not when they're created or whatever. And then create them/allow them to be created *anyway*, knowing they're bound for eternal torture because a system they created makes them get eternally tortured. Just... why?

External links

"CBC Newsworld pioneer Joan Donaldson dies". CBC. 8 September 2006. Archived from the original on 14 November 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
"About Joan Donaldson". CBC. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
"Joan's Story". Sherman, G. December 2000. Retrieved 5 June 2012.

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