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.[ citation needed]
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]