Former CTV Montreal anchor Bill Haugland received lifetime achievement award [Video]

Former CTV Montreal anchor Bill Haugland was honoured this weekend by the Quebec Federation of Professional Journalists, an association which represents roughly 1500 members of the press in Quebec. He received a lifetime achievement award, the first time such an honor is given to a non-francophone journalist in the province, during the Federation’s annual conference in Trois-Rivières.

Bill Haugland started working for CFCF-Radio in 1961, before joining its TV upstart CFCF-12 in 1964. Haugland was a star reporter, who witnessed all the major events of the 1960s in the province, from the Quiet Revolution, to the FLQ crisis, while covering other major changes in society during that period.

“We didn’t want to honour an anglophone or a francophone,” says the federation’s president Eric-Pierre Champagne. “We wanted to recognize a good journalist, a very good journalist.”

“Haugland had a huge career at CTV, and it was important to highlight it, and …