Richard Stursberg

{{Short description|Canadian entertainment executive}} '''Richard Barclay Stursberg'''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EO1EAQAAIAAJ&q=Jessamy+robertson+stursberg |title=The National Publishing Directory - Presstige Books of Canada - Google Books |year=1964 |via=Google Books|access-date=2013-01-22}}</ref> is a Canadian entertainment executive. He was executive vice president of CBC/Radio Canada from October 1, 2004 to August 6, 2010,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/richard-stursberg-leaves-cbc-1.946574|title=Richard Stursberg Leaves CBC|publisher=CBC News|date=August 6, 2010|access-date=2015-11-14}}</ref> narrated in his 2012 memoir ''The Tower of Babble''.<ref>{{cite web|first=Peter C.|last=Newman|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-tower-of-babble-by-richard-stursberg/article4103112/|title=The last lord of the CBC?|work=The Globe and Mail|date=April 20, 2012|access-date=2015-11-14}}</ref>

==Life and career== Richard Stursberg was born in London, England and grew up in New York where his father was working as a United Nations correspondent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dmpibooks.com/author/richard-stursberg |title=Richard Stursberg - D&M Publishers |publisher=Dmpibooks.com |access-date=2013-01-22}}</ref> He is the son of Jessamy Anderson (née Robertson) and broadcaster/writer Peter Stursberg. His father was born in China of German, English, and Japanese descent.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPsLAQAAMAAJ&q=Peter+Stursberg+1913+shaw |title=Canadian Who's Who, 1992 - Kieran Simpson - Google Books |via=Google Books|date=2010-06-30 |isbn=9780802046642 |access-date=2013-01-22 |last1=Simpson |first1=Kieran |publisher=University of Toronto Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=103467&rec_nbr_list=103467,3664228,101824,213273,3689874,3689538,3675667,106971,211914,211347 |title=Description found in Archives - Search - Library and Archives Canada |publisher=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |access-date=2013-01-22}}</ref> Stursberg has a master's degree from Carleton University.

Stursberg has more than 25 years' experience in the entertainment, broadcasting, cable, telecommunications, and cultural industries, including terms as head of the Canadian Cable Television Association from 1995 to 1999, Star Choice and Cancom from 1999 to 2001 and Telefilm Canada from 2001 to 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rrj.ca/on-trial/|title=On Trial|work=Ryerson Review of Journalism|date=Summer 2008|access-date=2022-01-02}}</ref>

Stursberg is a member of the executive committee of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. He has been a director of PEN Canada since 2015, and became president of the board in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://pencanada.ca/news/canadian-media-executive-richard-stursberg-elected-pen-canada-president-at-2017-agm/|title=Canadian media executive Richard Stursberg elected PEN Canada President at 2017 AGM|date=2017-06-07|work=PEN Canada|access-date=2017-10-24}}</ref>

In 2009, Stursberg married Carole MacNeil, a CBC news anchor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/cbcs-stursberg-to-marry-tv-news-host-macneil/article4275282/|title=CBC's Stursberg to marry TV news host MacNeil|work=The Globe and Mail|date=June 2, 2009|access-date=2015-11-14}}</ref>

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