Francis D'Souza

Francis D'Souza is a Canadian television executive and a former broadcaster. He is the Managing Editor of News Programming at CBC, nationally, and a former television news anchor for Citytv in Toronto, Ontario.

This article is about Canadian TV news anchor. For Indian politician, see Francis D'Souza (politician). For American businessman, see Francis deSouza. For the British scientist and politician, see Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza.
Francis D'Souza

Biography

D'Souza became interested in a career in television after being selected from Citytv's Lunch Television audience to perform the opening announcement on Queen Street. Prior to joining Citytv, D'Souza volunteered at Rogers Cable TV in Mississauga, his home town. He was chosen to host Plugged In! on Rogers Television. He was a production assistant with the CBC, a videographer at Global News Toronto and for two years (2000-2002) in Sudbury, Ontario anchored the CTV Northern Ontario (CICI-TV) News at 11:30pm in Northern Ontario.[1]

At Toronto's Citytv, he co-anchored a weekend newscast with Merella Fernandez and co-anchored a noon newscast until that program was cut in January 2010. D'Souza anchored the 5 pm newscast from its inception in 2011 until May 2019. He also served as substitute anchor for morning program Breakfast Television.

In June 2019 D’Souza joined CBC as Managing Editor of News Programming, overseeing the journalism, operation and strategic direction of The National, World at 6, World Report, World this Weekend, Front Burner, and CBC News Specials.

Education

D'Souza graduated from Clarkson Secondary School in 1996.

Awards

References
  1. "Sauga success story: Francis d'Souza Citytv". 18 October 2012.


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