Background
Gartner grew up in Chomedey, Laval, and was educated at Loyola College (now Concordia University), in Montreal Quebec.
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She graduated cum laude.
Career
She began her career as a radio host at Montreal"s CJAD in 1970, and joined the Canadian Broadcasting Company as a television news anchor in 1974. She joined Canadian Broadcasting Company Montreal in 1974, and moved to Toronto the next year to work on a program called In Good Company alongside Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson, Nancy White and Gene DiNovi. Gartner became host of Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio"s This Country in the Morning, replacing Judy LaMarsh, in 1976.
The following year, she moved to television, as a co-host of both the Canadian Broadcasting Company"s local newscast in Toronto and the network"s afternoon public affairs program Take 30.
(Previous hosts of Take 30 had included Mary Lou Finlay, Moses Znaimer and Adrienne Clarkson)
In 1982, Gartner became co-host of the Canadian Broadcasting Company"s prime time television newsmagazine, the fifth estate. She was given an interview series in 1994, Contact with Hana Gartner, to showcase a different side of her journalistic skills than the investigative reporting of the fifth estate.
In 1995, she replaced Pamela Wallin as co-host with Peter Mansbridge of Canadian Broadcasting Company"s flagship newshour, Prime Time News as it returned to 10 pm and reverted to its previous name of The National. Gartner hosted the National Magazine portion of the programme which consisted of interviews, extended features and documentaries and constituted the second half of the hour following Mansbridge"s newscast.
Gartner left the National and returned to the fifth estate in 2000 remaining with the programme for the next 11 years.
On May 11, 2011, Gartner announced her retirement from the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Achievements
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Gartner has won five Gemini, and has been nominated 18 times in Gemini hosting, anchoring, and interviewing categories during her career. She has also twice won the special Gemini Gordon Sinclair Award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 1985, and again in 2006. In 2011, she was nominated for a Michener Award for her story about a troubled teen who died while in the Ontario corrections system.
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Gartner has won five Gemini , and has been nominated 18 times in Gemini hosting, anchoring, and interviewing categories during her career. She has also twice won the special Gemini Gordon Sinclair Award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 1985, and again in 2006. In 2011, she was nominated for a Michener Award for her story about a troubled teen who died while in the Ontario corrections system.Gartner has won five Gemini , and has been nominated 18 times in Gemini hosting, anchoring, and interviewing categories during her career. She has also twice won the special Gemini Gordon Sinclair Award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 1985, and again in 2006. In 2011, she was nominated for a Michener Award for her story about a troubled teen who died while in the Ontario corrections system.