Peter Mansbridge is the Chief Correspondent of CBC Television News. He anchors CBC's flagship nightly news program, The National, and all CBC News specials. He is also the host of Mansbridge: One on One on CBC Newsworld and writes a weekly column for the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's.

Mansbridge began his career in 1968 in Churchill, Manitoba, where he helped develop CBC Radio's news service to northern Canada. In 1971, he moved to Winnipeg as a reporter for CBC Radio and in 1972, he joined CBC Television. He became The National's reporter in Saskatchewan in 1975 and, the following year, was named parliamentary correspondent for The National in Ottawa.

Mansbridge became Chief Correspondent and anchor of The National in 1988. Now in his fourth decade with CBC News, he has provided comprehensive coverage of some of the most significant stories in Canada and around the world. Nationally, he has anchored live coverage of 10 federal elections, six leadership conventions, referendums in 1992 (Charlottetown) and 1995 (Quebec), the 1997 floods in Manitoba, the Quebec and Ontario ice storms of 1998, and the six emotional days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Mansbridge has also anchored in-studio coverage of such international events as the Falklands War, the Gulf War, the war in Kosovo and the events surrounding September 11, 2001. He's anchored on-the-scene coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, numerous royal and papal visits and the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 1994, he reported extensively from Normandy, 50 years after D-Day; and in 1995, from Holland and England, on the 50th anniversary of VE-Day.

Mansbridge has received 10 Gemini Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism. He has won the Gemini for Best Anchor eight times, receiving the award more times than anyone else. He has also won the Gemini for Best Overall Broadcast Journalist – the prestigious Gordon Sinclair Award – twice. He was awarded the gold medal for Best News Anchor at the 2000 New York Festival in a competition of television networks around the world.

Mansbridge has also been honored by a number of institutes of higher learning. He has received honorary degrees from Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta; the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg; Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario; and Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. He was named the 1998 Arnold Wolfers' Fellow at Yale University. And in the spring of 2001, he was invited to lecture at Oxford University in England as part of that institution's distinguished speakers series.

Born in London, England, in 1948, Mansbridge was educated in Ottawa and served in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1966 and 1967.