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DIANA BISHOP
Diana Bishop is currently President of CILLA PRODUCTIONS INC. and creator of The Success Story Program, which helps business owners create and communicate the story of their success in order to get more customers, make more money and grow their business.
With 20 years of experience as a national and foreign TV news correspondent, Diana Bishop has had a journalism career that has taken her far and wide and has established an impressive network of contacts.
She has interviewed presidents and prime ministers, covered major national and international news events and specialized in the internal workings of Canadian politics and foreign policy.
After cutting her teeth with CBC News in Montreal and Quebec City in the 80’s, Ms. Bishop was snapped up by CTV National News in 1989 to become a National Political Correspondent in Ottawa where she filed news and did live reports on the Meech Lake constitutional crisis, the Oka Indian crisis, Commonwealth and Francophone Summits, visits by Russian President Boris Yeltsin, US President George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela's first trip abroad, as well as traveled with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney across Canada, the US, France and Africa.
In 1992, Ms Bishop was posted as Beijing Bureau Chief and made CTV history as the network's first full-time female foreign correspondent.
In CTV's affiliation with ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Ms. Bishop filed more than 100 news reports and current affairs documentaries on Chinese politics, human rights, and China's economic and social revolution, as well as Prime Minister's Jean Chretien's first Team Canada business tour in 1994 to Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Jakarta and Hanoi. Her work in China earned her a Gemini nomination in 1995 for best reportage.
Then NBC News came knocking and Ms. Bishop spent an additional year in China rebuilding the NBC News bureau and running Asia coverage for Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Weekend Nightly, the Today Show and Meet the Press.
In 1997, Ms. Bishop returned as a Senior Parliamentary Correspondent first for CTV News in Ottawa where she made regular contributions to W5, Sunday, Edition with Mike Duffy and anchored Canada AM Weekend and CTV NewsNet. In 1999 she moved to Global Television where she traveled with Jean Chretien to international summits and G8 meetings as well on the federal election campaign in 2000.
Ms Bishop has also produced several documentaries, and most recently wrote, narrated and produced a one-hour documentary for Global Television entitled A Hero To Me exploring the legacy of her famous grandfather and Canadian icon World War One flying ace Billy Bishop.
CILLA PRODUCTIONS INC.
90 Sumach Street, Suite 519, Toronto, ON M5A 4R4
TEL 416.363.9357 EMAIL dbishop@successstoryprogram.com