2008 Conference Speakers
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Tom Clark
Tom Clark is Washington Bureau Chief, CTV National News. He brings extensive news experience to the role of Washington Bureau Chief where he reports on a broad spectrum of national and international news. His regular beat is the White House. In 2006, he became the first Canadian journalist in more than 30 years to get a one on one interview with the President of the United States.
Previously, Clark was the Host and Senior Correspondent of North America's longest-running current affairs program, W-FIVE. His hard-hitting investigations were recognized and honoured internationally as well as domestically.
One of Canada's most experienced and respected journalists, Tom has reported from five war zones, in 2003 from Southern Iraq during the recent invasion. Prior to that he was the only Canadian reporter in Belgrade during the Yugoslav war. He also did two tours of duty in the Persian Gulf War, as well as two tours of duty in Bosnia during that war.
Tom has a long history of covering politics in Canada. He has covered every federal election campaign since 1974 and many provincial campaigns. He has interviewed every Prime Minister since Pierre Trudeau.
In the early 1980s he was the Bureau Chief in CTV's Beijing bureau in China, where he became one of the first Western journalists to report from Tibet. He also was the only Western journalist to get an interview with the son of Chinese leader Deng Xiao Ping, and uncovered a previously secret connection of that family to Canada.
Clark, who is from Toronto, and fluently bilingual, started his career at CFCF Montreal.
