Amanda Lang
| Amanda Lang | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 October 1970 |
| Alma mater | University of Manitoba |
| Occupation | Journalist, news presenter |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Otto Lang and Adrian Macdonald |
| Relatives |
Anthony Merchant (uncle) Sally Merchant (grandmother) Vincent Reynolds Smith (great-grandfather) |
Amanda Lang (born 31 October 1970) is a Canadian business journalist, currently the host of Bloomberg North on Bloomberg TV Canada. Lang was formerly senior business correspondent for CBC News where she anchored The Exchange with Amanda Lang daily on CBC News Network. Prior to her work with CBC she worked as a print journalist for Canadian national newspapers and was an anchor for Business News Network and CNNfn.
She is the daughter of Otto Lang, a Liberal party MP and federal cabinet member during the 1960s and 1970s. Her stepfather, Donald Stovel Macdonald, was also a federal Cabinet minister. Lang has an identical twin sister, Adrian.
She attended St Mary's Academy, a private Catholic girls' school in Winnipeg, Manitoba and later studied architecture at the University of Manitoba.
Lang began her journalism career in print at The Globe and Mail in the InfoGlobe unit.
She was later the New York correspondent for the National Post (after it acquired the Financial Post).
She got her start in television as an anchor and reporter with CNN in New York City where she reported from the for American Morning, and anchored programs on CNN's then-financial network, CNNfn.
Moving back to Canada, she became an anchor for Business News Network and was host of both SqueezePlay and The Commodities Report.
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