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Where Are They Now?: Ben Chin

Where Are They Now?

Ben Chin, regular weekend anchor of The National, is now the host of a series of Internet videos that attack the Conservative party in Ontario.

Ben Chin Last year, Chin became the nominee for the Liberal party’s run in a provincial by-election. Chin lost the election and now campaigns for the party.

Chin had worked for City TV and CTV News prior to joining CBC News. He was considered by many to be a rising star in the ranks, but in September 2003 he left the Corporation to join new TV station Toronto 1. When the station’s news programming was cancelled, he joined Global TV’s national newscast, but left to joined the communications staff of Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty before he was ever on air.

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	Personalities, Where Are They Now?	Posted at 12:03 pm (31 Aug 2007)

Today in CBC History: Diana death slows CBC site to a crawl

“It was just before one in the afternoon, Eastern Time, on Sept. 5, 1997, that the CBC’s online news service (then Newsworld Online, barely a year old) really realized the big difference between broadcasting broadcasting — where the signal goes out to the world — and online news, where the world comes to you,” remembers Robin Rowland of CBC.ca News.

“If much of that world arrives at the same time, all wanting the same story, then that could overload the server, jam the system and stop those people from getting the story they want.

In the early days, the small staff at Newsworld Online could tell instantly when a breaking story was attracting a huge public demand. The system slowed to a crawl. And that’s what happened at Newsworld Online the week Diana, Princes of Wales, died in a traffic accident.”

More at CBC.ca archives | Some audio clips of the coverage from the BBC.

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