Education
Macarenko was raised in Prince Rupert, British Columbia and graduated from Prince Rupert Secondary School. She studied journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
radio and television journalist
Macarenko was raised in Prince Rupert, British Columbia and graduated from Prince Rupert Secondary School. She studied journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
A longtime anchor or co-anchor of CBUT"s local supper-hour newscast since the late 1990s. Later she co-hosted Canadian Broadcasting Company News: Vancouver, weekdays from 5:00-6:30 p.m. with Tony Parsons. Presently, she is the host of CBU-FM"s British Columbia Almanac and the national Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio One documentary series The Story from Here.
Macarenko has been a guest anchor on The National and Canadian Broadcasting Company News Now on Canadian Broadcasting Company News Network.
Her first broadcasting job was reading the news after school on weekdays and weekend mornings for CHTK Radio, Prince Rupert. On graduating from BCIT, Macarenko worked for two years as a beat reporter for CKWX Radio in Vancouver.
In her first two years in radio she interviewed then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and covered the trial of serial killer Clifford Olson. Following the Olson trial, she spent four years in Spain and France, studying languages and art history and teaching English.
She returned to Canada in 1989 and was hired by Canadian Broadcasting Company television in Vancouver.
Human rights case Paul, who had been a news anchor in New Orleans, filed a complaint with the British Columbia Human Rights Branch alleging age-based discrimination. While Macarenko had a decade of experience in radio, she had much less experience in television and none as a news anchor. "I think it comes down to my being knowledgeable, comfortable and professional, and I think I"m all of those things." The case went to the Canadian Human Rights Commission which ruled that there was no discrimination.
This was challenged in Federal Court.
However, in 2002, the Commission upheld its ruling that there had been no discrimination. Macarenko serves the Vancouver community as a volunteer and host for organizations such as Arts Umbrella, Doctor Peter Centre, Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation and Westcoast LEAF. In 2005 she was named one of TVWeek"s 10 Most Beautiful People in British Columbia She was "Mission PNE" in 1978.
"I hate it coming down to defending my credentials," said Macarenko.
Quotations: "I hate it coming down to defending my credentials,".