
Kevin Newman started his career as a coffee boy and runner at Global Toronto. Today, the 50-year-old anchor of the national newscast, Global National, who began anchoring the show in September 2001, is leaving his job in August after a 30-year journalism career to take a long holiday and to think seriously about what's next for him in an industry which he says is in a "profound evolution" right now.

Kevin Newman started his career as a coffee boy and runner at Global Toronto. Today, the 50-year-old anchor of the national newscast, Global National, who began anchoring the show in September 2001, is leaving his job in August after a 30-year journalism career to take a long holiday and to think seriously about what's next for him in an industry which he says is in a "profound evolution" right now.