A busy morning in Goderich, as about 500 people packed the Knights of Columbus Centre to have breakfast with CBC News Correspondent and Anchor Peter Mansbridge.
Mansbridge spoke for about 30 minutes to the crowd about his start in broadcast journalism and his over 40 years in the business.
In an interview with Bayshore Broadcasting News, Mansbridge said everyone in the industry is facing challenges right now and it’s hard to predict the future of broadcasting when the technology changes to quickly.
He says it depends on how we can reach out to younger people who don’t watch or read the conventional way of journalism.
Mansbridge says it’s already started with the inclusion of the internet but there’s going to have to be a shift in the way news is delivered.
Mansbridge has been all over the world, often in the middle of history in the making, but he says it’s the ordinary people who stick out in his mind the most.
He says despite sitting down with political, business and religious leaders from all over the world, regular people who have been impacted by an extraordinary event are the most interesting.
When asked about one of the biggest news stories of the past decade, Mansbridge says it’s hard to think of anything other than 9/11 that has impacted the world as much.
He says it’s not just the event itself that changed the world, but everything that has happened as a result of it.
