Linden MacIntyre

Canadian award-winning journalist and author Linden MacIntyre is a former co-host of CBC TV shows The Journal and Fifth Estate.

Best known as the award-winning former host of the investigative TV show Fifth Estate and a best-selling novelist, MacIntyre began his journalism career as a parliamentary bureau reporter at The Halifax Chronicle-Herald in 1964. He later went on to work as an Ottawa report at the Financial Times of Canada and later held roles at CBC Television as a story editor. It was at CBC that Macintyre hosted his show The MacIntyre File, as well The Journal, CBC Radio’s Sunday Morning and Fifth Estate. During his 24 years hosting the popular investigative TV show, MacIntyre was awarded a Gordon Sinclair Award for Best Overall Broadcast Journalist, ten Gemini Awards and a coveted International Emmy. Also a leading documentary filmmaker, MacIntyre’s films include Power and Profit and A Toxic Company. Both went on to win him an array of prestigious awards including the Outspoken Opinions and Integrity Gordon Sinclair Award, a George Foster Peabody Award and a CBC Wilderness award. Of his other accolades, Macintyre later went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his A Toxic Company New York Times series.

As a bestselling author, MacIntyre’s novels including The Long Stretch, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, which won the Edna Staebler Creative Nonfiction award, his national bestsellers The Bishop’s Man and Punishment, as well as Why Men Lie which was chosen by the Globe and Mail as a Can’t-Miss Book for 2012.