{"id":11730,"date":"2024-01-19T14:26:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11730"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:58:13","slug":"craig-oliver","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/craig-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Craig Oliver\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"147\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Craig-Oliver.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11731\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig Oliver was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 14, \u201cin recognition of his stellar work as a Gemini-winning journalist, political commentator, news director, producer and autobiographer.\u201d<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada Day 2017 marks his 60th year as a national TV correspondent. He has covered wars, revolutions and politics from Ottawa to Washington, reported on 11 Canadian prime ministers and two U.S. presidents, and every Canadian election campaign since 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oliver has won two Gemini Awards, the Hy Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism from the Public Policy Forum, the Presidents&#8217; Award for Excellence in Canadian Broadcast Journalism from the Radio and Television News Directors Association, the National Press Gallery&#8217;s Charles Lynch Award and the Carleton University Arthur Kroeger College Award for Public Discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014, he was named to the Canadian News Hall of Fame. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Regina and Nipissing University<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LI2UUA5uU3Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Craig Oliver<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Oliver was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 14, \u201cin recognition of his stellar work as a Gemini-winning journalist, political commentator, news director, producer and autobiographer.\u201d Canada Day 2017 marks his 60th year as a national TV correspondent. 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