Michael Maclear, OC (1929 – December 25, 2018)[1] was an award-winning Anglo-Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker,[2] and former correspondent for various CBC programs and for CTV's W5.
[4] Born in London, UK in 1929, Maclear moved to Canada in 1954 and joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the next year.
In 1963, as CBC's Far East correspondent based in Japan, he married Yoko (Mariko) Koide, a news researcher whose contacts with the newsfilm agency Nihon Denpa News and its Hanoi bureau made possible a series of exclusive reports also aired by CBS, NBC and syndicated by The New York Times.
Subsequently, Yoko's contacts were key to obtaining Hanoi's military archives for the 13-hour television history "Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War", which Maclear independently produced in 1980.
[1] In 2004, he won the "Outstanding Achievement Award" at Hot Docs, an annual documentary film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, where he was also honoured with a 13-film retrospective.