death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date known_for article_title birth_name occupation
toronto , ontario , canada 24 may 2014 toronto , ontario , canada canada 18 november 1927 anchor and chief correspondent for cbc television news knowlton nash
 cyril knowlton nash author , journalist , news anchor
knowlton nash

cyril knowlton nash , oc , oont -lrb- november 18 , 1927 -- may 24 , 2014 -rrb- was a canadian journalist , author and news anchor .
he was senior anchor of cbc television 's flagship news program , `` the national '' from 1978 until his retirement in 1988 .
he began his career in journalism by selling newspapers on the streets of toronto during world war ii .
before age 20 , he was a professional journalist for british united press .
after some time as a freelance foreign correspondent , he became the cbc 's washington correspondent during the kennedy and johnson administrations , also covering stories in south and central america and vietnam .
he moved back to toronto in 1968 to join management as head of cbc 's news and information programming , then stepped back in front of the camera in 1978 as anchor of cbc 's late evening news program , `` the national '' .
he stepped down from that position in 1988 to make way for peter mansbridge .
nash wrote several books about canadian journalism and television , including his own memoirs as a foreign correspondent .
