Paul Kennedy (host)


Paul Kennedy is a broadcast journalist who works at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is a veteran broadcaster and award-winning documentarist, and is best known for being the host of the program Ideas on CBC Radio One from 1999 to his retirement in 2019.
In 1977, he researched and wrote his first documentary segment, titled The Fur Trade Revisited. This was featured in an Ideas series entitled Red Man, White World.
While hosting Ideas, Kennedy continued to do documentary work.

Education

Kennedy has a BA degree from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; a MLitt degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and he has done postgraduate work at the University of Toronto, where he studied with the media theoretician Marshall McLuhan.

Awards