GILLIAN FINDLAY
Gillian Findlay first reported for the fifth estate from 1990-91.
Prior to that time, Findlay spent 12 years with CBC Television News, beginning
as a general assignment reporter in Vancouver. In 1985, she moved to The Journal
as a health reporter and later became a member of their prestigious documentary
unit.
While at the fifth estate, her story on David Milgaard helped make the case for
his innocence and against the man who was eventually convicted.
In 1991, she
covered the Dubin Inquiry for The National. Called after the Ben Johnson scandal
in 1988 at the Seoul Olympics, the national inquiry investigated the use of banned
substances by Canadian athletes.
Later that year, Findlay was named London correspondent for CBC News. From London,
she covered such stories as the war in the former Yugoslavia, the famine in Somalia,
the Persian Gulf War and its aftermath, the attempted coup in Russia in 1993,
and the 1994 elections in South Africa.
In 1994, as ABC News' Moscow-based correspondent, she covered the war in Chechnya
and also reported on Russia's most historic presidential election. Findlay spent
eight years reporting for ABC News - first in Moscow and then in Jerusalem. As
ABC's Middle East correspondent, she covered the Palestinian Intifada. Findlay
also reported on events in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan.
Gillian Findlay returned to Canada and to CBC-TV in 2002 to co-host the investigative
program CBC News: Disclosure for two seasons.
Findlay studied history and literature at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver
and holds a degree in broadcast journalism from the British Columbia Institute
of Technology.
In 2005, Findlay's story 'First,
Do No Harm' received
3 Gemini nominations, including Best Host or Interviewer
in an Information Program or Series.
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