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  Encyclopedia: Knowlton Nash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Nash began his career working for The Globe and Mail in the 1940s before becoming an editor with British United Press in Canada.
In 1988, Nash offered to retire from his duties at "The National" in order to keep Peter Mansbridge from accepting an offer to host the morning news at the American network CBS.
Nash left his position as CBC news' senior anchor and chief correspondent in 1988, yet remains active in Canadian journalism circles.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Knowlton-Nash   (310 words)

  
 Knowlton Nash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Knowlton Nash was the former and long-serving senior anchor of the "Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's" (CBC) flagship news program, "The National".
Nash was forced to retire from his duties at "The National" as a result of a job offer from American network CBS to his heir apparent, Peter Mansbridge.
Nash was supposedly forced to retire as the CBC did not want to lose its star young reporter - Mansbridge.
www.portaljuice.com /knowlton_nash.html   (119 words)

  
 Nash, Knowlton
Nash began his career in journalism at an early age working in the late 1940s as a copy editor for the wire service British United Press.
For Canadians Nash became a familiar face abroad during the heady days of the Cuban missile crisis, the war in Vietnam and the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers.
Nash's international reports in many respects symbolized the growth and reach of the CBC's news departments over the globe.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/N/htmlN/nashknowlto/nashknowlto.htm   (494 words)

  
 CBC: Life And Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
After a stint with CBC Radio in Washington, Nash jumped to the new medium of television and, before long, joined a select group of CBC foreign correspondents, reporting from hot spots around the globe and establishing the reputation of CBC Television News as among the world's best news services.
Nash was one of the last people to interview Bobby Kennedy before his assassination in 1968, and tracked down Che Guevera in the cane fields of Cuba for an exclusive interview.
Nash left the anchor chair in 1992, stepping aside so CBC could offer the top job to Peter Mansbridge, who was considering an offer from CBS in New York.
www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/nash.html   (395 words)

  
 About Witness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Knowlton Nash, the host of Witness, is one of Canada's most distinguished journalists.
Nash began his career at the CBC when he was hired as the Washington correspondent in 1961.
Knowlton Nash returned to Toronto and in 1978 was appointed the anchor of The National — CBC’s flagship news program.
www.tv.cbc.ca /witness/general/knol.htm   (298 words)

  
 Knowlton Nash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Knowlton Nash (born November 18, 1927 in Toronto, Ontario) was the former andlong-serving senior anchor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 'sflagship news program, The National.
Nash offered to retire from hisduties at "The National" in order to keep Peter Mansbridge fromaccepting an offer to host the morning news at the American network CBS to his heir apparent, PeterMansbridge.
Nash left his position as CBC news' senior anchor and chief correspondent in 1988, yet remains active in Canadian journalism circles and hosted various programs on CBC Newsworld in the 1990s
www.therfcc.org /knowlton-nash-268249.html   (138 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Nash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Nash was a village in Shropshire, England which is believed to have been wiped out entirely by the Black Death of c.
Nash Lee is a hamlet in the parish of Ellesborough, in Buckinghamshire, England.
Nash Mills, originally a corn-mill recorded in Domesday and belonging in the Middle Ages to the Abbey of St Albans, was purchased in 1811 by John Dickinson.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nash   (1080 words)

  
 Knowlton Nash - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Knowlton Nash (born November 18, 1927, Toronto, Ontario) was the former and long-serving senior anchor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship news program, The National.
During his tenure, the program was repeatedly reshaped, going from "The National News" to its current iteration.
In the late 1980s, Nash offered to retire from his duties at "The National" in order to keep Peter Mansbridge from accepting an offer to host the morning news at the American network CBS.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Knowlton_Nash   (143 words)

  
 cancon: books: review of Trivia Pursuit: How Showbiz Values Are Corrupting the News
Knowlton Nash points out that CBC in general has been pretty good at keeping its news respectful and "real" despite the heavy temptations constantly trying to pull them to the "other side." For example, according to Nash, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien carries a huge grudge from his conflicts with the CBC French network.
Nash concludes that the more recent, all time high budget-cutting at the CBC is no coincidence.
Thus, Knowlton Nash is critical, but he does see some hope in the future for news.
www.canadiancontent.ca /issues/0799books3.html   (473 words)

  
 Knowlton Nash and broadcasting's battleground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
That’s the message Knowlton Nash, former television news anchor of "The National" on the CBC-TV's The National, delivered to students at The
Nash’s latest of eight books, Swashbucklers: The Story of Canada’s Broadcasters, about “a triumph of commerce over culture,” was the focus of his address today.
Nash added that the publicly-funded CBC may “dwindle” if it continues on its current trend of trying to cater to a wide audience.
observer.thecentre.centennialcollege.ca /features/nash101401.htm   (457 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: The National   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Peter Kent hosted the show for two years and, because he had worked as a senior correspondent with CBC NewsMagazine and The National he was allowed to report and write and anchor The National and CBC News Specials...
Nash stepped down as chief anchor in 1988, being replaced by Peter Mansbridge.
Peter Mansbridge (born July 6, 1948) is a Canadian journalist and anchor of The National, CBC Televisions flagship nightly newscast.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-National   (2927 words)

  
 Thunderbird Magazine
In Trivia Pursuit, Knowlton Nash, the owl-eyed doyen of Canadian broadcasting, is the wise conscience of journalism.
Nash's worry about showbiz values in the news is based on his deep concern for democracy.
Nash is not saying that journalists should drain their stories of all interesting elements until nothing is left but dry, factual accounts.
www.journalism.ubc.ca /thunderbird/archives/1999.01/books/main.html   (1423 words)

  
 Media Literacy | Commentary | Interview with Knowlton Nash
Nash: The one thing that you have to start out in understanding about the media today, or the news media today, is that the news has really become the single most important product in the world.
Nash: Oh my goodness the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton scandal was a classic example of the trivialization of the news.
Nash: No! (laughs) I wish it would affect it because it would have a positive effect, but I don't think it will, because CTV has been cutting back and the radio stations - well, there's practically no news on most radio, there are a few 24hr radio stations.
www.7thfloormedia.com /resources/medialiteracy/commentary/knowltonnash.html   (2890 words)

  
 Canadian Corporate News : Knowlton Nash Honoured With New Award For Journalists, Canadian Journalism Foundation to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Knowlton Nash Honoured With New Award For Journalists, Canadian Journalism Foundation to Launch Prize at "Nashional" Dinner.
The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) today announced the creation of a new Award, The Nash Prize in Journalism to be launched at "The Nashional" fl tie dinner on Thursday December 7, 2000 at Hart House in Toronto.
"As Knowlton Nash, the CJF's founding chair, is one of Canada's most respected journalism professionals, we are delighted to be recognizing his contribution to Canadian journalism and society at the Nashional dinner.
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 Nash Coat of Arms
The founding heritage of the Nash family is in the Anglo-Saxon culture that once dominated in Britain.
First found in Worcestershire where they were seated from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
in 1630; Anne Nash settled in Virginia in 1635; along with Edward her husband; John, Margaret, Mary, Sarah Nash all settled in Virginia in 1663.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/nash-coat-arms.htm   (1286 words)

  
 Knowlton Nash Honoured by CODE With First-Ever Directors' Award for Literacy Promotion
Nash, surprised with the award while serving in his capacity as Honorary Chair at a CODE event, has been donating time and energy to CODE for nearly two decades.
Nash's contributions to CODE, but - he confessed - "we've set the bar rather high by starting with you, Knowlton."
CODE received the Government of Canada Literacy Innovation Award, the Jennie Mitchell "Celebrate Literacy" Award from the Ontario and International Reading Associations, and the International Prize for Literacy from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
www.nald.ca /WHATNEW/hnews/2002/knowlton.htm   (252 words)

  
 Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes
Born in Toronto on November 18th 1927, Knowlton Nash first got into the news business during World War II as a paperboy when he was only ten.
Knowlton was appointed Washington correspondent for the CBC in 1961.
During his time in Washington, Knowlton was President of the Canadian Correspondents' Association, and of the CBC Foreign Correspondents' Association.
www.broadcasting-history.ca /personalities/personalities.php?id=118   (536 words)

  
 Knowlton Nash Biography
It has often been speculated that Nash was forced to retire from his duties at "The National" as a result of a job offer from American network CBS to his heir apparent, Peter Mansbridge.
As a result, Nash was supposedly forced to retire as the CBC did not want to lose its star young reporter - Mansbridge.
Since his retirement he has written a number of books, including a history of the CBC.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Nash_Knowlton.html   (156 words)

  
 Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 84252443
In his early years as a journalist Knowlton Nash worked with the Globe and Mail, United Press, and, as a freelancer, the Financial Post, Maclean’s, the Vancouver Sun, and the Windsor Star, among other Canadian news outlets.
In 1969 Nash was made director of information programming at the CBC, and in the mid-1970s, he became its director of television news and current affairs, a position he held until becoming anchor and senior correspondent for “The National”; in 1978.
Nash is also well known as the author of seven previous acclaimed books, including Cue the Elephant, Prime Time at Ten, Kennedy and Diefenbaker, The Microphone Wars, Trivia Pursuit, and The Swashbucklers.
www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/random056/84252443.html   (371 words)

  
 FRANCES K NASH - Maine Album Page from the Bangor Daily News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Nash was the recipient of a Carnegie Medal for saving the life of a 9-year old boy who fell through the ice on the Megunticook River in February of 1943.
Nash were lifelong members of the Scotty Camping Club and enjoyed their many trips with friends.
Surviving are one son, Richard Nash and his wife, Peggy; one daughter, Linda Dabrio and her husband, Jack, all of Rockport; five grandchildren, Ginger Nippe of Rohnert Park, Calif., Richard Nash Jr.
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 NameTraq | Last Name: Knowlton
Charles Knowlton said he was a passenger in Deck's pickup when it struck and killed Marilyn Cseh as she walked home from an Ogden bar nearly 18 months ago.
Two properties, the Arena Farm in Knowlton Township and the Mangine Farm, which is in both Knowlton and Blairstown townships, are part of Knowlton's Planning...
Knowlton's Garage continued in business this year after selectmen relented and issued the auto salvage yard a license to operate.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Cue the Elephant: Backstage Tales at the Cbc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Nash does a good job of disinterring these nuggets from the memories of his subjects, providing a readable, light-hearted addition to the archive, and a glimpse of what we once had.”
Knowlton Nash’s detailed and widely praised history of the CBC, The Microphone Wars (1994), provided a superbly researched view of the trials and triumphs faced by Canada’s embattled public broadcaster since its birth sixty years ago.
Knowlton Nash, the closest thing Canada has had to a Walter Cronkite, was in fact a network bureaucrat before becoming anchor of the national news.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771067356   (522 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 98225373
The news media are awash in sensationalism, as is clear from the lavish coverage given to every tiny detail of Princess Diana’s death and funeral, and the breathless and casually inaccurate news stories on President Clinton’s alleged extramarital sex life.
In their efforts to entice new readers and viewers, much of the media are turning tawdry gossip into news; as Nash puts it, they are startling our eyeballs rather than engaging our minds.
Nash shows us that the news media have always struggled with the issue of whether their role is to inform or to entertain, yet the pendulum has never before swung so lopsidedly.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random049/98225373.html   (363 words)

  
 Biography Of Ogden Nash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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Nash, Graham (born 1942), British singer-songwriter (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
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 Knowlton Nash reports live on campus - ExpressNews - University of Alberta
March 27, 2001 - Knowlton Nash had his first taste of journalism at the age of 10 selling newspapers on a Toronto street corner.
Nash cited John F. Kennedy as the most stimulating and charming man he had met, although that charm didn't rub off on then-Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
During the height of the Vietnam War, several correspondents were speaking privately with former President Lyndon Johnson when he launched into the "Johnson Treatment"--an attempt to try to persuade the reporters of the wisdom of his policies in Vietnam.
www.expressnews.ualberta.ca /print.cfm?id=239   (679 words)

  
 On Balance - Vol 6, Num 1
Knowlton Nash reported the Friday and Saturday news.
Only Knowlton Nash criticized slightly more often than he approved of the "Yes" side.
Only 46 percent of Knowlton Nash's comments on the "No" side were neutral.
oldfraser.lexi.net /publications/onbalance/1993/6-1   (2850 words)

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