Knowlton Nash

Who is Knowlton Nash?

Cyril "Knowlton" Nash, OC, OOnt is a Canadian journalist, author, and former long-serving senior anchorman of CBC Television's flagship news program, The National. He began his career in journalism by selling newspapers on the streets of Toronto during World War II. Before age 20, he was a professional journalist for British United Press. After some time as a freelance foreign correspondent, he became the CBC Washington correspondent during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, also covering stories in South and Central America and Vietnam. He moved back to Toronto in 1968 to join management as head of CBC's news and information programming, then stepped back in front of the camera in 1978 as anchor of CBC's late evening news program, The National. He stepped down from that position in 1988 to make way for Peter Mansbridge. Nash has written several books about Canadian journalism and television, including his own memoirs as a foreign correspondent.