Education
University of Western Ontario.
University of Western Ontario.
Arsenault joined the Canadian Broadcasting Company in 1991, as an editorial assistant and night assignment editor for Canadian Broadcasting Company Toronto. She has had numerous other positions with the Canadian Broadcasting Company. She spent three years as the foreign correspondent in Jerusalem. In 2006 she succeeded Don Murray as the chief London correspondent.
In 2008 she was part of a small group of Western reporters who were allowed into Zimbabwe to report on that year"s election in the country.
Born and raised in Toronto, Arsenault is the daughter of Ray Arsenault (1929-2006), a Canadian television director (for series like the King of Kensington and Hockey Night in Canada), and Bette Arsenault. In 1986, Arsenault graduated from Saint Clement"s School as Head Girl, the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor in 1990 and an Master of Arts in Journalism in 1991.
While at Western, Arsenault developed her interest in broadcasting at CHRW radio. Canadian Broadcasting Company biography
Biology: Adrienne Arsenault on YouTube
Adrienne Arsenault at the Internet Movie Database.
She was named the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association"s journalist of the year for 2005. Arsenault has won two Gemini, in 2008, in the categories of Best Reportage and in Best News Magazine Segment and nominated for five Gemini, for her work on The National, including a segment called Healing Hikkaduwa. She has won awards from the American Society of Professional Journalists, the Radio and Television News Directors Association, and the New York and Columbus festivals. In September 2015, she won the News & Documentary Emmy Award for her coverage of the Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia.
