Linden MacIntyre
Linden MacIntyre joined the fifth estate as co-host for the 1990-91 season. He is one of Canada's most distinguished broadcast journalists. For three decades, MacIntyre has been involved in producing documentaries and stories from all over the world including the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and Central America.
Born in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and raised in Port Hastings, Cape Breton,his career began in 1964 with The Halifax Chronicle-Herald as a parliamentary bureau reporter. After a stint at political reporting and editing in Nova Scotia, he returned to Ottawa as a reporter for The Financial Times of Canada. Between 1970 and 1976, he lived in Cape Breton and wrote for The Chronicle-Herald.
In 1976 MacIntyre joined CBC Television Halifax as a current affairs story editor/journalist for 'Here Today'. He soon hosted his own program, The MacIntyre File', which began in 1977 and ran for three seasons. His documentary, 'Power and Profit' won him ACTRA's Gordon Sinclair Award for Outspoken Opinions and Integrity.
While working at 'The MacIntyre File', he launched a landmark legal challenge over access to affidavits and documents relating to search warrants. The CBC won the case before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. The province appealed to the Supreme Court of of Canada, but MacIntyre and the CBC successfully defended their case. Today The Attorney General of Nova Scotia vs MacIntyre is an important legal precedent in support of public and media access to information in Canada.
MacIntyre moved to Toronto in June 1980 and produced an hour-long examination of acid rain in the documentary 'Dirty Sky, Dying Water'. He joined 'The Journal' team at its inception in 1982 and was there until he joined the fifth estate, with the exception of a two year period (1986-1988) when he hosted CBC Radio's 'Sunday Morning'.
The 1992/93 season saw MacIntyre's 'fifth estate' documentary 'To Sell a War', which exposed a $10.7 million public relations campaign launched on behalf of the Kuwait Royal family to sell the American public on the Persian Gulf war, garner an International Emmy and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television honored him with a Gemini Award in 1993 for best overal broadcast journalist. For his work in the 1993-94 season, MacIntyre won two Gemini Awards, the Gordon Sinclair Award for best overall broadcast journalist, and best anchor or interviewer.
MacIntyre has a reputation for both courage and sensitivity in his storytelling. This was particularly evident in his handling of three very complex stories: 'The Trouble with Evan', 'His Word Against History-The Stephen Truscott Story' and 'Ty Conn'. The latter resulted in a book entitled 'Who Killed Ty Conn' in which co-authors Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke charted the tragic life and death of Ty Conn.
In 2001, 'the fifth estate' was honoured with both the Michener Award and the Justicia Award for Excellence in Journalism. MacIntyre's groundbreaking journalism was key to both awards, including his story 'The Scandal of the Century'. In it he exposed how the justice system failed 14 adults falsely charged with the sexual abuse of nine children in Saskatchewan in the early 1990's.
In 2003, MacIntyre and producer Neil Docherty produced 'A Toxic Company' in partnership with PBS Frontline and the New York Times Television. The documentary has won a number of prestigious awards including Dupont/Columbia Silver Baton, the George Polk Award, the George Foster Peabody Award and the CBC's Wilderness award. The accompanying New York Times series of articles won a Pulitzer Prize..
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