Ab Douglas

Ab Douglas Driediger (born 1930 in Molln, Germany) is a former Canadian television news anchor. He co-anchored the CTV National News with Peter Jennings for two years. He was raised on the Canadian prairies and returned there after taking early retirement.

Ab Douglas (Driediger) was born into a German Mennonite Family in Molln, Germany in 1930 and grew up in the Brandon, Manitoba area. He spent 11 years working in radio/TV newsrooms on the Prairies, the last 7 at CFRN-TV in Edmonton. Douglas joined the fledgling CTV National News in Ottawa in 1962 where he was Parliamentary Bureau Chief and news co-anchor first with Peter Jennings and later with Harvey Kirck. In 1967 he moved to CBC Television where he worked as national correspondent in Edmonton and Vancouver; foreign correspondent in Moscow and London as well as on numerous special foreign assignments. From 1976-80 he was anchor/reporter on CBOT in Ottawa. 1980 took Douglas to the University of Regina where he was associate professor at the University's School of Journalism for 4 years. He subsequently operated his own cattle ranch in the Medicine Hat area but continued lecturing and conducting workshops at various schools of journalism in Canada and the U.S. for a number of years. He is the author of 2 published books, "On Foreign Assignment" (Temeron Books) and "No Dancing God" (Fitzhenry & Whiteside). Douglas is a graduate of Queen's University and a retired officer (Major '67) of the Canadian Armed Forces (Reserve.) He retired to Kelowna BC in 1998.