David McGuffin

David McGuffin is a broadcast journalist, working with National Public Radio in Washington, DC as an editor on its flagship Morning Edition program. Prior to that he helped launch Voice of America's South Sudan radio service, as its Managing Editor. From 2004 until 2010, he was the Africa Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, reporting for its television, radio and online news services. From his base in Nairobi, Kenya, he re-asserted CBC's presence on the continent, regularly reporting from conflict zones in Darfur, Congo, Somalia and Afghanistan. He also covered a wide range of social, economic, and cultural issues affecting Africa, travelling from Timbuktu to Mogadishu, Khartoum to Cape Town. In his work, he interviewed former South African President Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Desmond Tutu, rebel leaders and indicted war criminals. The CBC closed the Africa bureau in April 2012 after the federal government chopped $115 million from its Parliamentary grant.

McGuffin previously served as the bureau chief in Moscow for Feature Story News, a British broadcast news agency, during the last tumultuous years of the Yeltsin era. His reports from the former Soviet Union aired on National Public Radio, CBC News, ABC Radio News and US Public Television. In 2000, he opened FSN's Beijing bureau, before joining CTV News as its Beijing bureau chief and Asia correspondent. During a two-year stint in Rome, he also reported for ABC News and NBC News, on Vatican and European affairs. His reports aired on NBC Nightly News, MSNBC and ABC Radio. His first job in journalism was for the MacNeil–Lehrer Newshour on PBS. He was part of the team that launched the NewsHour's award winning website and oversaw the Online NewsHour's foreign coverage. He graduated from Trent University, the journalism program at the University of King's College and Lisgar Collegiate Institute.