Ab Douglas

Who is Ab Douglas?

Ab Douglas Driediger is a former Canadian television news anchor. He co-anchored the CTV National News with Peter Jennings for two years. He was raised on the Canadian prairies and returned there after taking early retirement.

Ab Douglas was born into a German Mennonite Family in Molln, Germany in 1930 and grew up in the Brandon, Manitoba area. He spent 11 years working in radio/TV newsrooms on the Prairies, the last 7 at CFRN-TV in Edmonton. Douglas joined the fledgling CTV National News in Ottawa in 1962 where he was Parliamentary Bureau Chief and news co-anchor first with Peter Jennings and later with Harvey Kirck. In 1967 he moved to CBC Television where he worked as national correspondent in Edmonton and Vancouver; foreign correspondent in Moscow and London as well as on numerous special foreign assignments. From 1976-80 he was anchor/reporter on CBOT in Ottawa. 1980 took Douglas to the University of Regina where he was associate professor at the University's School of Journalism for 4 years. He subsequently operated his own cattle ranch in the Medicine Hat area but continued lecturing and conducting workshops at various schools of journalism in Canada and the U.S. for a number of years. He is the author of 2 published books, "On Foreign Assignment" and "No Dancing God". Douglas is a graduate of Queen's University and a retired officer of the Canadian Armed Forces He retired to Kelowna BC in 1998.