William Robert Cunningham (10 July 1932 – 31 January 2024) was a Canadian television journalist, who was associated at different times in his career with the CTV, CBC and Global networks.
[1] Originally from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,[1] he began his journalism career in 1954,[2] working for the Times & Transcript, local radio stations in New Brunswick, and Broadcast News before joining the CBC.
[3] He was CBC Television's Vietnam War correspondent in the late 1960s,[4] and was promoted to head of network news by 1972.
[2] After just a year in that job, however, he left to head the news department at the fledgling Global network, holding that role until 1980.
[1] Cunningham was a media spokesperson for Dying with Dignity, a Canadian assisted suicide advocacy organization.