Susan Ormiston Named CBC News’ First International Climate Correspondent

CBC News today announced the appointment of Susan Ormiston to the newly created role of international climate correspondent. Beginning later this fall, Ormiston will tackle high-profile international climate stories, with deployments to breaking news related to the issue around the world.

“This announcement reaffirms our commitment to one of the most pressing stories of our time,” said Brodie Fenlon, editor in chief, CBC News. “Susan’s credibility and international stature will put us on the world map with our climate journalism, and bring the story home to Canadians in rich, unexpected ways that they won’t find anywhere else.”

“It is a job that looks to the future,” said Ormiston. “It has tremendous scope intersecting with people, politics, conflicts and solutions.”

Rounding out three years as CBC News’ Washington correspondent, Ormiston will also cover the U.S. midterm elections before returning to Canada next year. She will continue to cover other major breaking news and conflict stories, as she did while in Washington, covering Afghanistan and Ukraine; she returns to Ukraine later this summer.

As a long-time CBC senior correspondent for TV, radio and online, Ormiston has reported from 30 countries and conflict zones including Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, Russia, Ukraine, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. She’s covered natural and industrial disasters in Haiti, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

She also reported extensively on Nelson Mandela, covering his election as President of South Africa in 1994, and his death nearly 20 years later. As CBC News’ London correspondent, she covered the European debt crisis, a royal wedding and baby, and the revolutions in Libya, Egypt, and Syria. She has also reported on global sporting events including the Olympic Games London 2012, Rio 2016 and PyeongChang 2018, and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.