Cynthia Mulligan Explained

Cynthia Mulligan (born in Montreal, Quebec^[1]) is a Canadian television presenter on CITY-TV's CityNews.^[2]

Mulligan studied English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.^[2] She started at Citytv in the CityPulse library. Before moving over to CityNews, she was a news writer for Breakfast Television. Mulligan has also been an ENG cameraperson and a videographer.^[2] She added the duties of anchoring CP24 in January 1998 until 2008 when CTVglobemedia acquired the channel.

Mulligan currently works as a reporter on CityNews at Five and CityNews at Six (weekdays) focusing on politics.^[3] She used to be an education specialist/reporter in the 2008-2010 period.^[2] Her work has been nominated for a Gemini Award for best local reporting.^[4] She has won two Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) awards: her first was for her coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris; her second was in 2017 for her series on Transgender Surgery in Bangkok.^[3] She also won The Edward R Murrow award for her 2010-2011 series "Kicking Cancer" which dealt with her battle with breast cancer.^[3]

Mulligan has two daughters.^[1] In April 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.^[5] She announced the diagnosis publicly in May 2010, and has since reported on and blogged about her experiences of treatment.^{[5] [6]} In 2018, she made an impact statement in court against ex-boyfriend Mike Bullard after he pled guilty to making harassing phone calls.^[7]

On 29 June 2021, Mulligan took to Twitter to announce that her cancer had returned. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer around Christmas, 2020.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Cynthia Mulligan, Front Seat to the World . . Beaches Life Magazine . Toronto . June/July 2011 . 29 January 2022 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201123194957/http://www.beachesliving.ca/beacheslife/cover-story/cynthia-mulligan-front-seat-to-the-world/ . 23 November 2020.
2. News: CityNews - Toronto's News - Personalities . . . Toronto . 12 December 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101224025103/http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/personalities/349--cynthia-mulligan . 24 December 2010 . dead.
3. News: CityNews Toronto - Our Team - Cynthia Mullingan . CityNews . Citytv . Toronto . 29 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210630190738/https://toronto.citynews.ca/author/cynthia-mulligan/ . 30 June 2021 . live .
4. News: CityNews Gets 3 Gemini Nominations . CityNews . Citytv . Toronto . 12 December 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101224192023/http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/91851--citynews-gets-3-gemini-nominations . 24 December 2010 . dead .
5. News: Battling cancer in the public eye: reporter, actor tell their stories . Tobin . Anne-Marie . Toronto Star. 8 June 2010 . The Canadian Press . 12 December 2010 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20121023020728/http://www.thestar.com/living/article/820257--battling-cancer-in-the-public-eye-reporter-actor-tell-their-stories . 23 October 2012.
6. News: Statistics confirm cancer is now the leading cause of death for Canadians - . 680News . 19 May 2010 . 12 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927190700/http://www.680news.com/news/national/article/56805--national-plan-needed-to-fill-gaps-in-end-of-life-programs-cancer-society . 27 September 2011 .
7. News: Mike Bullard pleads guilty to harassing phone calls to ex-girlfriend . Syed . Fatima . Toronto Star . 8 June 2018 . 29 January 2022 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210510060646/https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/06/08/mike-bullard-pleads-guilty-to-harassing-phone-calls-to-ex-girlfriend.html . 10 May 2021.
8. News: CityNews' Cynthia Mulligan reveals her renewed battle with breast cancer . LeBlanc . Erin . Toronto Star . 29 June 2021 . 30 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210709181936/https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/06/29/citynews-cynthia-mulligan-reveals-her-renewed-battle-with-breast-cancer.html. 9 July 2021 . live.