Sheila MacVicar


Sheila MacVicar is a Canadian television journalist most recently with Al Jazeera America as the host of Compass With Sheila MacVicar and a correspondent for America Tonight.
A native of Montreal, she worked for CBS News from June 2004 until 2013 as the network's London correspondent. She has also worked as a reporter for CBC Television, ABC News and CNN. From 1977 she worked at CBC affiliated stations in Calgary and Montreal.
She graduated from Carleton University in 1977 with a Bachelor of Journalism.

Awards and recognition

MacVicar reported on a connection between Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein on January 14, 1999 on ABC News.