Cynthia Mulligan

Cynthia Mulligan (born 22 November 1973)[1] is a Canadian television presenter on CITY-TV's CityNews.[2]

She was born on 22 November 1973, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Mulligan studied English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.[2] She started at Citytv in the CityPulse library. Before moving over to CityNews, she was a news writer for Breakfast Television. Mulligan has also been an ENG cameraperson and a videographer.[2] She added the duties of anchoring CP24 in January 1998 until 2008 when CTVglobemedia acquired the channel.[citation needed]

Mulligan currently works as a reporter on CityNews at Five and CityNews at Six (weekdays) focusing on politics.[3] She used to be an education specialist/reporter in the 2008-2010 period.[2] Her work has been nominated for a Gemini Award for best local reporting.[4] She has won two Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) awards: her first was for her coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris; her second was in 2017 for her series on Transgender Surgery in Bangkok.[3] She also won The Edward R Murrow award for her 2010-2011 series "Kicking Cancer" which dealt with her battle with breast cancer.[3]

Mulligan has two daughters.[1] In April 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.[5] She announced the diagnosis publicly in May 2010, and has since reported on and blogged about her experiences of treatment.[5][6] In 2018, she made an impact statement in court against ex-boyfriend Mike Bullard after he pled guilty to making harassing phone calls.[7]

On 29 June 2021, Mulligan took to Twitter to announce that her cancer had returned. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer around Christmas, 2020.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Cynthia Mulligan, Front Seat to the World". Beaches Life Magazine. No. June/July 2011. Toronto. Archived from the original on 23 November 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "CityNews - Toronto's News - Personalities". CityNews. Toronto: Citytv. Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  3. ^ a b c "CityNews Toronto - Our Team - Cynthia Mullingan". CityNews. Toronto: Citytv. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  4. ^ "CityNews Gets 3 Gemini Nominations". CityNews. Toronto: Citytv. Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  5. ^ a b Tobin, Anne-Marie (8 June 2010). "Battling cancer in the public eye: reporter, actor tell their stories". Toronto Star. The Canadian Press. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  6. ^ "Statistics confirm cancer is now the leading cause of death for Canadians -". 680News. 19 May 2010. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  7. ^ Syed, Fatima (8 June 2018). "Mike Bullard pleads guilty to harassing phone calls to ex-girlfriend". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  8. ^ LeBlanc, Erin (29 June 2021). "CityNews' Cynthia Mulligan reveals her renewed battle with breast cancer". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.