CJF to honour Peter Mansbridge with Lifetime Achievement Award

TORONTO - Peter Mansbridge, the longtime anchor of CBC's The National, will receive The Canadian Journalism Foundation's (CJF) Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual CJF Awards on June 14 in Toronto.Past recipients of the award include Jean Pelletier, Lloyd Robertson, Michel Auger, Peter Bregg, Jack Sigvaldason, Lise Bissonnette, Joe Schlesinger, Sally Armstrong, Knowlton Nash, June Callwood, Trina McQueen, Mark Starowicz, Bernard Derome, Peter Gzowski and Robert Fulford.During his award-winning career, which began in 1968 in Fort Churchill, MB where he helped develop CBC Radio's news service to Northern Canada, Mansbridge (pictured) has anchored coverage of major Canadian and international events, including the...