Graham Richardson
Managing Director, Media and Communications
(MC)
Graham Richardson is a seasoned journalist and multi-media broadcaster and newsroom leader who brings over three decades of media experience to EGA. Over his 31-year career, Richardson has covered major national and international events, earning the trust of viewers and the respect of those he covered.
As the Chief News Anchor at CTV Ottawa, and afternoon news reader at 580 CFRA, Richardson is a familiar face and trusted voice in hundreds of thousands of households across the region.
In his new role at EGA, Richardson will leverage his extensive media expertise to provide strategic communications counsel to clients across various sectors.
Before becoming Chief News Anchor at CTV Ottawa, Richardson covered Parliament for nearly four years. He filed reports from Kandahar Afghanistan, G-8 meetings in Germany and Japan, a NATO summit in Romania, official visits to India, Singapore, the Czech Republic, Poland and the United Nations in New York.
Before his assignment on Parliament Hill, Richardson was CTV's Los Angeles Bureau Chief, covering the Michael Jackson trial, Hurricane Katrina, space shuttle landings, the Mexican election, and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino Italy.
Richardson was also Queen's Park bureau chief for Global News, where he covered the end of the Harris premiership and the beginning of the McGuinty Liberal government. Prior to that he spent eight years in Alberta, four in Calgary, four in Edmonton, covering an extraordinary period of growth in that province, under Premier Ralph Klein.
A graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Richardson has spent many summers along the shores of Bob's Lake near Westport. When he's not working or volunteering, Richardson and his wife Leigh Anne are active dance parents, with their talented son Bennett, and now retired minor hockey player Jack, who just graduated Western University and now works in journalism