Amanda Lang Biography
Amanda Lang is a Canadian business journalist, is presently employed at BNN Bloomberg. Previously, she hosted Bloomberg North on Bloomberg TV Canada. Lang was formerly a senior business journalist for CBC News, where she hosted The Exchange with Amanda Lang every day on the CBC News Network.
How old is Amanda Lang? – Age
She is 53 years old as of 31 October 2023. She was born in 1970 in Ottawa, Canada.
Does Amanda Lang have a twin sister? – Family – Education
Lang’s father, Otto Lang, was a Liberal Party MP and federal cabinet member in the 1960s and 1970s. Donald Stovel Macdonald, Lang’s stepfather, was also a federal Liberal Cabinet member. Adrian is Lang’s identical twin sister. She attended St Mary’s Academy, a private Catholic girls’ school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and went on to study design at the University of Manitoba. His mother is Adrian Macdonald.
Amanda Lang Husband – Does Amanda Lang have children?
She was married to Vincent Borg, a Communications consultant. The couple divorced in 2012. They together have a child Julian Borg.
Amanda Lang Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Amanda Lang Bloomberg
Lang became the host of Bloomberg TV Canada’s Bloomberg North in early 2016. Following the network’s shutdown in September 2017, Bell Media rehired Lang for Business News Network (which had previously announced that it would become a co-branded franchise of Bloomberg Television, BNN Bloomberg), where she now co-hosts Bloomberg Markets as part of a co-production agreement.
Amanda Lang CBC
Lang and Kevin O’Leary began hosting The Lang & O’Leary Exchange, a new business program on the CBC News Network that airs daily (as of 1 March 2010) at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, on which she has interviewed luminaries such as Brian Mulroney, Canada’s former prime minister.
Her book, The Power of Why, was released in 2012. Lang, 42, was already rumored to be Peter Mansbridge’s replacement on The National when he was named to Toronto Life’s 2012 ’50 Most Influential People in Toronto’ list. On October 13, 2015, CBC announced Lang’s departure from the broadcaster, effective October 16, for what was characterized as “a new opportunity outside the CBC in television.”
Amanda Lang Career
Lang started her reporting profession on paper at The Globe and Mail in the InfoGlobe unit. She was later the New York journalist for the Public Post (after it obtained the Monetary Post). She started out in TV as an anchor and correspondent with CNN in New York City where she revealed from the New York Stock Trade for American Morning, and secured programs on CNN’s then-monetary organization, CNNfn.
Moving back to Canada, she turned into an anchor for Business News Organization and was host of both SqueezePlay and The Products Report. Lang left SqueezePlay and BNN in July 2009. In 2011, Lang facilitated a board on CBC’s The Public where she was doled out to decide the validity of then NDP pioneer Jack Layton’s political decision stage. It was not revealed to the survey crowd that Lang’s sibling was, at that point, going against Layton for the Liberal Party in the riding of Toronto — Danforth. CBC’s Ombudsman decided in July 2011 that “it was unrealistic to compartmentalize Lang’s providing details regarding NDP strategy from Layton’s characteristics as a pioneer and qualifications to be upheld as a competitor. Any of her mission announcing even by implication meeting with the Nonconformists or NDP might have been seen as tangled.”
In December 2014, media site Canadaland introduced proof that previous that year Lang had given good CBC inclusion to two organizations, Manulife and Sun Life, without revealing to watchers that each organization had as of late paid her for talking commitment. In January 2015, Canadaland ran stories noticing that Lang took part in the inclusion of the Regal Bank of Canada during its impermanent unfamiliar specialist program embarrassment, including meeting the then-President of the bank Gord Nixon, while having done talking commitment at RBC supported occasions, advancing her own book, which highlighted a back cover underwriting from Nixon without unveiling she was involved with a board individual from the bank.
Directly following the RBC stories, George Monbiot, a feature writer for The Gatekeeper, composed on 20 January 2015, “It stuns me that [Lang] stays utilized by CBC.” John Doyle, a journalist for the Toronto The Globe and Mail, composed on 23 January “It’s the ideal opportunity for Lang to get over herself and disappear. This is about the CBC’s standing, not hers, which is as of now shredded.”
On 22 January 2015, the CBC declared it had prohibited live ability from tolerating paid talking commitment. Soon thereafter, Lang surrendered in a piece in The Globe and Mail that she ought to have made live exposures about her association with RBC and expressed that she concurred with the talking commitment boycott. On 5 Walk 2015, the CBC declared an inside report led by one of its own news representatives had decided Lang satisfied its editorial guidelines.
In any case, in a blog entry and in a letter to CBC watchers who griped about Lang’s supposed RBC irreconcilable situations, CBC News Head supervisor Jennifer McGuire expressed that the CBC didn’t uncover most of its report on Lang to the general population, including the parts concerning Lang’s supposed irreconcilable circumstances with respect to her own life: “Let me state out front that main a little piece of that survey was unveiled: examination of the substance that we broadcast and distributed. Different areas which cover the similarly significant inquiries concerning irreconcilable circumstance were not delivered as a result of commitments we need to keep them secret … Any discipline did as per that aggregate understanding is likewise classified.”
Toronto’s Currently Magazine provided details regarding 16 January 2015, that Lang “came to the guard” of Barrick Gold, a mining organization that had utilized her ex, in a live CBC segmen