David Common was a Canadian journalist, which is best known as a correspondent and anchor for CBC News, and cohost with Asha Tomlinson and Charlsie Agro of CBC Television's consumer affairs newsmagazine Marketplace.[1] As of October 16, 2023, he is the host of CBC Radio’s Metro Morning.[2]
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in Toronto, Ontario, where he attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute and York University in 1995. In 1998, as part of an exchange program, Common completed a specialization in International Security Studies at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden.[3]
Common has worked for CTV and CBC News. He began with CBC at the London Bureau, moving later to Toronto, Fredericton, Regina, and eventually back to Toronto as a national reporter before being posted to Paris, France in 2006.[4] From France, he travelled extensively in the western and eastern parts of European continent and North Africa, shooting, and editing his own stories.
In 2009, Common transferred to New York City, where he worked as a CBC's correspondent in that city,[5] though he covered 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the 65th anniversary of V-E Day celebrations in the Netherlands. Common has filed reports from across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as helped cover conflicts in Haiti, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He was one of the main weekday anchor of CBC Radio One's morning newscast World Report for a number of years in the 2010s.[6]
In 2020 during COVID-19 pandemic (2020–21), Common announced that he was a guest host for several weeks on Metro Morning, CBC Radio's local morning show on CBLA-FM in Toronto, and was named the program's permanent host by October 2023.
He has received several awards, and was nominated for a Gemini Award twice in the Best Reportage category, winning once.[7]
References
edit- ^ "CBC offers some one-sided food for thought". Windsor Star, October 28, 2016.
- ^ Kevin Jiang, "Veteran journalist David Common taking over as new host of CBC Radio's Metro Morning". Toronto Star, October 4, 2023.
- ^ Longley, Greg (December 3, 2013). "CBC's David Common lends expertise to broadcast students". The Sheridan Sun. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ^ "CBC News shuffles its foreign correspondents". The Globe and Mail, May 26, 2006.
- ^ "CBC sends Solomon, Milewski to Ottawa, Boag to L.A. in newsroom shuffle". Canadian Press, July 15, 2009.
- ^ "Waiting in the wings for CBC's top anchor job". The Globe and Mail, September 7, 2016.
- ^ Gemini award nominations and win