CNW Group Ltd. , also called Canada Newswire and CNW , is a commercial press release service owned by Cision . Cision Distribution services in Canada are powered by Canada Newswire. The service is offered stand-alone or as part of its flagship Cision Communications Cloud platform for PR professionals.
6-669: CNW was founded in 1960 as Canada News Wire, by Joseph Adair Porter Clark (1921–2013) who became CEO and President of the news service. Clark is the father of television journalist Tom Clark . CNW originally delivered text news releases to news media outlets on behalf of paying clients. This model expanded over time to include the provision of ancillary services required by investor relations and public relations professionals, including translation, photography, webcasts, media databases and media monitoring. Canada Newswire distribution switched to using XHTML instead of ANPA-1312 , allowing for more formatting of releases. In 2003, CNW entered into
12-472: A commercial endorsed deal with TSX for its newswire and webcast services through a paid sponsorship agreement. CNW was acquired by US-based PR Newswire in 2013. PR Newswire was subsequently acquired by Cision in 2016. Cision was most recently acquired by Platinum Equity , announced October 22, 2019. On March 19, 2021 Business Insider reported Cision may be looking to spin off its Newswire unit. Tom Clark (journalist) Tom Clark (born 1952/1953)
18-552: Is a Canadian former television journalist. A longtime reporter and anchor for CTV National News and CTV News Channel , he moved to Global News in 2011 before retiring from journalism in 2016. Currently, he serves as Canada's Consul General in New York. Clark was born in the early 1950s (1952 or 1953) to Joseph Adair Porter Clark and Patricia Grant, and raised in Toronto . He graduated from Upper Canada College in 1971. He
24-582: Is fluent in both English and French. Clark attended Carleton University to study journalism, but left for a news job in Montreal . Clark comes from a family of journalists: Besides journalism, Clark is a licensed pilot and flies a floatplane . Clark served as CTV's China Bureau Chief in the early 1980s. He was among the first to cover the Ethiopian famine in 1984, was in Berlin in 1989 to witness
30-557: The fall of the wall , and was the only Canadian reporter in Yugoslavia when NATO launched aerial war against Serbia in 1999. In all, Clark has covered six theatres of war. He was the first Canadian journalist to ever interview U.S. President George W. Bush one on one on television. He also hosted, and served as senior correspondent on CTV's W-FIVE for eight years, and hosted the political news show Power Play on CTV News Channel . On September 7, 2010, CTV announced Clark
36-408: Was leaving the network to pursue other opportunities. He had been considered one of the frontrunners to succeed Lloyd Robertson as CTV National News anchor; with his departure coming shortly after Lisa LaFlamme was named Robertson's successor, it was widely speculated that Clark's departure was tied to having been passed over. However, Clark later said that he was "neither angry nor bitter" about
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