Christopher Waddell is a professor emeritus, former director of the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton and past holder of the school’s Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism. He joined Carleton in July 2001 after 10 years at CBC Television News where he was initially senior program producer for The National and from 1993 to 2001, Parliamentary Bureau Chief in Ottawa and also Executive Producer News Specials for the network. Between 1984-91 he was at the Globe and Mail as a reporter in Report on Business, economics reporter in Ottawa , Ottawa bureau chief and from 1989-91 was associate editor and then national editor of the Globe in Toronto. As a reporter for the Financial Post in October 1984, he attended and reported on the Davis retirement announcement.
