Meet the new journalists bringing CBC News closer to you

We feature long believed that face of the earth come together to you — come together to where you unrecorded, close to how you consume content, close to what you care about, close to how you think and what you need help with — is the key to maintaining our relevance with Canadians. 

Proximity is how we build trust and grow relationships with you, the people we serve, including those of you with whom we have weak or little connection. It's how we find great stories that need telling and how we help this country understand itself. 

First, we have built out our digital proximity to Canadians, getting closer to people by being on the emerging platforms they use for local, national and international news and current affairs. That ambition has driven our local streaming channel expansion and FAST strategy, our YouTube efforts, our local and national podcasts, our digital publishing feeds, the importance of Gem, TikTok and the integration of local Radio One streams on the news app, to name just a few examples. 

Second, we make sure to be there when it counts. Nothing tests your commitment to proximity more than when a crisis hits a community. Be it snow, wildfires, floods or hurricanes, we will be there for the communities we serve, helping them make sense of what's happening.

Today that big local service expansion is real: people have been hired (just a few left to go); leases have been signed; stories are being told.

You'll be able to put faces to names, learn the locations in which we've set up shop and see a few samples of the stories they've already produced.

Our proximity goal is to be of real service to these communities, building local relationships and trust, one reporter and one story at a time.  

Red Deer

Hinton

Lloydminster

Lethbridge

Medicine Hat

Banff/Canmore

Example of a recent Alberta story:

Steinbach

We will fill a second Steinbach position soon.

Example of a recent Manitoba story:

Prince Albert

North Battleford

We hope to fill this reporter position soon.

Abbotsford

Fort St. John

Nanaimo-North Island

Penticton

Squamish

Salmon Arm

Examples of recent B.C. Stories:

Okanagan Falls may need to change its name in order to become B.C.'s newest municipality

Mission Couple find wedding rings in landfill

Dawson Creek, B.C., eyes $100M water pipeline as deepening drought threatens drinking supply

Campbellton, N.B.

Truro, N.S.

Yellowknife-based travelling reporter
 

Laurentians/Lanaudière

Andie Bennett

Vaudreuil-Soulanges

Chloë Ranaldi

Oshawa

Rochelle Raveendran

Christian D'Avino

Christian has wanted to be a journalist since high school when he volunteered for local cable television before completing his diploma at Fanshawe College in London. While he's spent most of his life in Ontario, his career started in the small northern B.C. City of Dawson Creek. He moved back to Ontario to be a reporter for CTV in Sault Ste. Marie and most recently has been working for CTV Barrie as a reporter, producer and anchor. Christian is passionate about local news and strongly believes in reporting on underserved communities.

Sault Ste. Marie

Alex Flood

St. Catharines

Diona Macalinga

Examples of recent Ontario stories: 

Editor in chief

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