Tom Harrington

Tom Harrington is a Canadian retired radio and television journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Until recently, he was the anchor of CBC Radio One's afternoon news program The World This Hour.

A graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Harrington joined the CBC as a sports reporter for CBC Calgary before moving to CBC Montreal. He later moved to the national CBC Sports division as anchor of National Sports, a sports news program on CBC Newsworld, and as a sports reporter for The National. His work for the CBC included covering Commonwealth Games, Pan-American Games and Olympic Games events. He is married and has one child.