CBC NEWS LAUNCHES ALL NEW PROGRAM, THE EXCHANGE - WITH AMANDA LANG

CBC News’ Amanda Lang is well known for her savvy financial expertise as host and senior business correspondent. Now, she’s taking it a step further with a completely revamped and reimagined new program, THE EXCHANGE - WITH AMANDA LANG, launching on CBC News Network on Monday, October 20, 2014 at 7 p.m. ET.

THE EXCHANGE - WITH AMANDA LANG is unlike any other program on CBC News Network or anywhere else in Canada, taking viewers inside the world of business and helping them understand it. Host Amanda Lang will cut through the jargon, showing Canadians how business news influences their work, their money, and their lives. Amanda’s extensive reporting experience will offer viewers exclusive, in-depth access to key players in business, finance, economics and politics both in Canada and around the world, and offer practical knowledge to help them make those every day decisions about money and life.

“Amanda Lang is an exceptional business journalist. She has an incredible ability to illustrate and contextualize complex stories - helping Canadians understand the impact of financial happenings here and around the world,” said Jennifer McGuire, general manager and editor-in-chief, CBC News and Centres. “In this new show she will showcase her insight with more in depth feature interviews with the players and will bring that context and depth to audiences in new ways. “

THE EXCHANGE - WITH AMANDA LANG features:

• Exclusive interviews with industry leaders and decision makers who make the big decisions Canadians need to know about;

• Behind-the-scenes, off-the-cuff story meetings with Amanda Lang, showing why CBC News covers certain stories and not others;

• Big picture panels and engaging debates with leading thinkers;

• Engaging real-time discussion, including a live Q&A session with financial experts to answer questions and offer personal financial advice.

Amanda Lang (@AmandaLang_CBC) is a veteran business journalist who got her start at The Globe and Mail before moving to the Financial Post, first as a technology reporter and later as the paper’s New York correspondent. She began her television career in 1999, at the newly launched Report on Business Television (now known as Business News Network). During that time she also worked as a reporter and anchor at CNN. Lang hosted Business News Network’s SqueezePlay and moved over to CBC in 2009 to launch The Lang and O’Leary Exchange. She is a frequent guest speaker on business and economics, and is the best-selling author of The Power of Why.

THE EXCHANGE - WITH AMANDA LANG airs Monday to Friday at 7 p.m. ET on CBC News Network.

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For further information, or to request interviews, contact:

Corey Black, News and Current Affairs publicist, CBC

416.205.8710 (office)/647.221.4133 (mobile)