Tim Knight has been a journalist for 35 years. He has won both Emmy and Sigma Delta Chi awards for journalism.

He’s worked at three newspapers, United Press International, Zambia-TV, NBC-TV, ABC-TV
and Radio, PBS and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

Over the years he’s done just about everything — Writer, Reporter, Interviewer, Foreign Correspondent, Anchor, Lineup Editor, Programme Producer, Documentary Producer, Executive Producer, News Director and Broadcast Journalism Trainer.

As a Reporter/Producer he covered stories in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Congo (including two wars), Kenya, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Great Britain, Russia, Jamaica, most of the US and much of Canada.

He ’s been Executive Producer of News and Current Affairs at CBC-TV, Ottawa, and Producer for CBC-TV’s flagship news programme, The National. He spent 10 years as Coordinator and Executive Producer of the CBC-TV Journalism Training Department before noticing the time and quitting to form his own international broadcast journalism training and consulting company.

Since then tim knight + associates has trained thousands of working broadcast journalists in Canada, the US (five years as Current Affairs Training Consultant to PBS), Jamaica, Mauritius, Spain, Ireland, Finland, Germany, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ghana and South Africa (12 workshops in 10 years).

He’s led training workshops for groups including the International Television Workshop (Rockport, Maine); the Commonwealth Journalists Association; INPUT (keynote speaker in 2002 at this International Public Service TV Producer’s Conference); the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the Radio and Television News Directors Association, the Innoversity Creative Summit, Journalists For Human Rights and the Canadian Association of Journalists.

In Canada alone, tim knight + associates has trained journalists for, among other broadcasters, the CBC; Radio-Canada; CTV; The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN); the National Aboriginal Communications Society; TV-5; Wawatay; The Sports Network (TSN); TVOntario; Radio-Qu ébec; TV-A; VideoTron; Vision-TV; The Discovery Network; HGTV; the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation; Shaw Cable; and Independent World Television’s The Real News.

He has written three books on communications and journalism:

• The CBC-TV Journalism Trainer's Guide;
• The Television Storyteller – A Guide For TV Journalists
• Everything you always wanted to know about how to be a TV journalist in the 21st century but didn't know who to ask or Storytelling And The Anima Factor: which you can buy online at Lulu.com.

  

Professional memberships have included:

• Founding Director – International Broadcast Training of Canada (IBToC)
• Vice-Chairperson (Broadcasting) – Commonwealth Journalists Association (Canada)
• Chairperson, Ethics Committee – Canadian Association of International Development Consultants
• Director – Writers Guild of America (East)
• Member – Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE); Commonwealth Association for Education in Journalism and Communication; Canadian Journalism Educators; Journalists for Human Rights; Society of Environmental Journalists; Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ).

Knight has lectured on journalism at the New School for Social Research (New York); the University of Toronto; Carleton University; Western University; Ryerson Polytechnic University; the British Columbia Institute of Technology; Mohawk College; the University of Regina; and Wilfrid Laurier University.

He Directed, Wrote and Narrated two one-hour documentaries, The Russians are Coming, for CBC-Radio's prestigious Ideas programme and Directed, Wrote and Narrated The Challenge, a one-hour TV documentary shot in Jamaica and Newfoundland for Vision-TV.

As well as President of tim knight + associates, he is also President and CEO of KnightHawk Communications Inc.

He is Executive Producer, Co-Director, Writer and Narrator of KnightHawk's Inside Noah's Ark trilogy which goes behind the scenes into the hidden world of South African wildlife reserves to reveal that they're no longer truly wild but have to be managed like giant ranches — huge zoos — if they are to survive for our children. The documentaries have already been broadcast by the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, PBS and 10 European networks.

Knight’s broadcast journalism workshops include training in Storytelling, Story Structure, Story Focus, Writing, Interviewing and on-air Performance. And running like a river under every workshop is a lifelong dedication to Journalistic Principles and Ethics.

Knight believes that free journalism is the essential cornerstone of democracy and that in a democracy journalists are the servants of the people. He teaches that it is both the journalist’s responsibility and privilege to nurture and protect the free marketplace of ideas and keep it safe from harm.

Knight is a charismatic trainer and speaker, convinced that great journalism has always been storytelling and that storytelling is the most elemental and efficient form of communication ever devised by human beings.

Tim Knight is based in Toronto. He can be reached at:
(416) 968-2947
www.TimKnight.org
TimKnight@rogers.com