Tom Clark hosts CTV Newsnet's daily marquee political program.
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Host of CTV's Power Play With Tom Clark & Award-Winning Journalist.
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Tom Clark hosts CTV Newsnet’s daily marquee political program, Power Play with Tom Clark, which offers a fresh look at politics, politicians and plays for power. Clark cuts through the rhetoric and highlights the people and players that dominate the political scene in Canada. Clark has a long history of covering politics in Canada.
He has covered every federal election campaign since 1974, as well as numerous provincial campaigns. He has interviewed nearly every Prime Minister since Pierre Trudeau, and in his most recent post as CTV’s Washington Bureau Chief, he secured Canada’s first televised interview with a sitting U.S. President in over 30 years.
Previously, Clark was the Host and Senior Correspondent of North America’s longest-running current affairs program, W-FIVE. His hard-hitting investigations were recognized and honoured internationally as well as domestically.
One of Canada’s most experienced and respected journalists, Clark has reported from five war zones, most notably from Southern Iraq in 2003. Prior to that he was the only Canadian reporter in Belgrade during the Yugoslav war. He also did two tours of duty in the Persian Gulf War, as well as two tours of duty in Bosnia. In the early 1980s, he was the Bureau Chief in CTV’s Beijing bureau in China, where he became one of the first Western journalists to report from Tibet. He also was the only Western journalist to get an interview with the son of Chinese leader Deng Xiao Ping, during which he uncovered a previously secret connection of that family to Canada.
Clark, who is from Toronto, and fluently bilingual, started his career at CFCF Montreal. He comes from a long line of journalists; his great-grandfather, Joseph T. Clark was editor of Saturday Night and editor-in-chief of the Toronto Star. His grandfather was a reporter for The Star who later worked as the head of public information services of the Army, Navy, and Air Force during World War II. His father was instrumental in founding and heading up Canada NewsWire and his great-uncle Gregory Clark was one of Canada’s most acclaimed journalists and writers.
In what spare time he has he uses his pilot’s licence to explore the North in his floatplane.
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