Peter Mansbridge

Peter Mansbridge is a Canadian television reporter.

He is the Chief Correspondent of CBC Television News and the anchor of The National, CBC's flagship nightly newscast.

Mansbridge was born in London, United Kingdom in 1948 and was raised in Ottawa, Ontario, having attended Glebe Collegiate Institute. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1966 and 1967.

While working as an airport announcer in at the airport in Churchill, Manitoba in 1968, Mansbridge was recruited to work for a local radio station, followed by a move to CBC Radio's northern service, still in Churchill. In 1971 he moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba to continue as a reporter for CBC Radio and while there in 1972 began as a reporter for CBC Television.

In 1975 he became The National's reporter for Saskatchewan and in 1976 he became The National's parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa. Following a decade of political coverage, Mansbridge had become a substitute anchor for The National's Knowlton Nash and in 1988, was reportedly being recruited by U.S. broadcaster CBS for a prominent position. Nash, in fact, voluntarily gave up his position as anchor later that year, specifically so that Mansbridge would be promoted to anchor and remain in Canada.