Duncan McCue

Award-winning broadcaster and educator Duncan McCue is a Professor of Indigenous Journalism and (Story)telling at Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, ON. At Carleton, he is also working with colleagues to launch a new journalism skills certificate on the ground in Indigenous communities.

McCue is a proud Anishinaabe from the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation in southern Ontario. He is the author of Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities and The Shoe Boy, a memoir of his time spent on a trapline with a Cree family in northern Quebec.

A longtime CBC radio host and TV news correspondent, McCue was the host of Helluva Story on CBC Radio and was also the driving force behind Kuper Island, an eight-part podcast series on residential schools. In addition to hosting CBC Radio One’s Cross Country Checkup, he was a longstanding correspondent for CBC-TV’s flagship news show, The National.

He previously taught journalism and created courses at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism and Toronto Metropolitan University and also as a visiting fellow at Carleton.

McCue studied English at the University of King’s College, then did his law degree at UBC. He was called to the bar in British Columbia in 1998.