Linden MacIntyre

Linden MacIntyre
Macintyre in May 2008
Born	Linden Joseph MacIntyre (1943-05-29)May 29, 1943 Bay St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia,Canada
Occupation	Writer, broadcaster, journalist
Period	1964 - present
Genre	Non-fiction, fiction
Notable works	The Bishop's Man,Who Killed Ty Conn
Notable awards	2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize 2010 Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award
Spouse	Carol Off(m. 2000)
Children	5

Linden Joseph MacIntyre(born May 29, 1943) is aCanadianjournalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won tenGemini Awards,anInternational Emmyand numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence, including the 2009Scotiabank Giller Prizefor his 2009 novel,The Bishop's Man.Well known for many years for his stories onCBC'sThe Fifth Estate,in 2014 he announced his retirement from the show at age 71. His final story, broadcast on November 21, 2014, was "The Interrogation Room" about police ethics and improper interrogation room tactics.

Life and career

One of three children of Dan Rory MacIntyre and Alice Donohue, he was raised inPort Hastings, Nova Scotia.The Donohue family was fromBay St. Lawrence,a small fishing community in northern Cape Breton, who were originally from Ireland. As a miner, his father was rarely at home. MacIntyre has said, "The old fellow decided the family would stay in the community and he would go away and stay as long as it took.... My mother was a teacher and my sisters and I stayed with her."

After high school, MacIntyre moved toAntigonish, Nova Scotia,where in 1964 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree fromSt. Francis Xavier University.He also studied atSt. Mary's Universityand theUniversity of King's Collegein Halifax. From 1964 to 1967 he worked for theHalifax Heraldas a parliamentary reporter in Ottawa. He continued in the same role with theFinancial Times of Canadafrom 1967 to 1970. He was drawn back toCape Bretonafter the death of his father in 1970 and for the next six years he lived there and worked as a correspondent for theChronicle Herald.

He joined theCanadian Broadcasting Corporationin Halifax in 1976 and for three years he hosted a regional public affairs show calledThe MacIntyre File.It was with this program that he launched a successful legal challenge before theSupreme Court of Nova Scotiaover access to affidavits and documents relating to search warrants. Later heard before the Supreme Court of Canada, the successful suit was a landmark case which set a precedent in support of public and media access to information in Canada.

In 1980, MacIntyre moved to Toronto, where he still resides, to work as a producer and journalist and in 1981 he joined CBC's new flagship news program,The Journal.

His work took him around the world preparing documentary reports on international affairs, preparing such notable features as 1981's "Dirty Sky, Dying Water" (about acid rain). From 1986 to 1988 he was host and national editor ofCBC Radio's flagship show,Sunday Morning.In 1990 he was named co-host of the weekly investigative newsmagazinethe fifth estate,with which he remained until 2014. In addition, he has been a frequent guest host ofThe CurrentonCBC Radio One.

In 2014, MacIntyre decided to retire both to help spare at least one younger colleague from the pending 657 job cuts from the CBC and to illustrate the effect of the considerable budget cuts the CBC is enduring.

Stories

Forthe fifth estate,he has written numerous investigative reports often with producer Neil Docherty. Many of the shows have also appeared onFrontline.Examples of his stories include:

• "To Sell a War"(1992). The film is about a public relations campaign to gain public opinion support for the First Gulf War. It won an International Emmy and a Gemini Award.
• "The Trouble With Evan" (1994). This film, about the psychological abuse of a child by his parents, was introduced by MacIntyre when first broadcast as the saddest story he ever had to tell. Winner of an Anik Award, it was removed from competition at the Cannes Film Festival and banned in Canada for several years due to court orders on behalf of some of the subjects.
• "His Word Against History: TheStephen TruscottStory "(2000). It was a co-recipient (with otherfifth estatedocumentaries) of the Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism.
• "The Scandal of the Century" (2001) about false accusations of sexual abuse in Saskatchewan (see Sheila Steele).
• "Terror and Tehran" (2002) about US policy in Iran.Transcript of an online discussion about the program fromThe Washington Post)
• "Toxic Company" (withFrontlineandNew York Times Television,2003). An exposé ofMcWane,it won a Dupont/Columbia Silver Baton, the George Polk Award, the George Foster Peabody Award and the CBC's Wilderness award. The accompanyingNew York Timesseries, "Dangerous Business", won a Pulitzer Prize.
• "A Hail of Bullets" (2005) about theMayerthorpe tragedy.
• "Brian Mulroney: The Unauthorized Chapter" (2007) about theAirbus affair.

Personal life

During a fifty-day lockout by the CBC in 2005,MacIntyre penned a memoir calledCauseway: A Passage from Innocence,which he dedicated to his mother. He has five children including CBC New Brunswick producer Darrow MacIntyre. He married broadcasterCarol Offin 2000.

Publications

Novels

Linden MacIntyre talks about The Bishop's Man on Bookbits radio.

His first three novels are called his Cape Breton Trilogy:

• The Long Stretch,1999
• The Bishop's Man,2009 - Winner of the 2009Scotiabank Giller Prize- Winner of the 2010 Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award.
• Why Men Lie,2012
• Punishment,2014
• The Only Café,2017
• The Winter Wives,2021

Non-fiction

• Who KilledTy Conn(withTheresa Burke), 2001
• Causeway: A Passage from Innocence,2006
• The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of aNewfoundland Tsunami,2019

External links

• CBC profile,October 2011
• Linden MacIntyreatIMDb