Dana Lewis  Dana Lewis, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a TV News Correspondent based out of London.Dana is the host of podcast BACK STORY. He was formerly with Fox News, NBC News, CBS News, CBC News and CTV National News. He was also a contributor to Al Jazeera America reporting on the Paris attacks, the election in Ukraine, the 70th anniversary of D-Day, and current developments in Iraq. He is currently the Senior News Correspondent, freelance, for INSIGHT on TRTWORLD. Based in London he is completely independent. He has completed half hour shows in depth reports, as a host and reporter on such complex issues as BREXIT, Nuclear issues, and American Foreign Policy. Lewis has covered the World including the current war in the Middle East, the hotel suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan, and updates following the London terrorist attacks. In 2003 Lewis was an embedded reporter with the 101st Airborne in Iraq; he was also embedded with U.S. forces along the Pakistan border and in Helmand Province Lewis is considered an expert on Russia having lived there for 12 years, although he no longer lives there. He has covered China, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe. He speaks English and Russian. Lewis was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended York University and the Fanshawe College Broadcast Journalism program. He is a graduate of The Fanshawe College Journalism program. Prior to joining Al Jazeera and Fox News, Lewis worked for a number of different news programs and networks, including "NBC Nightly News", "CTV News" and "CBC News", and was a crime reporter for CFTR/CHFI Radio in Toronto. Dana anchored the CTV National News and was Prime Time anchor of the 24 hour News Channel. He was also the main 6 o clock anchor for CBC News Edmonton. Later he became a National News Report in Canada for CTV first based in Edmonton, then Toronto and then overseas. During the 1990s, Lewis was the Jerusalem-based Middle East Bureau Chief/Correspondent for CTV. He was based in Jerusalem for 6 full years. Later while working for NBC he came under fire while in a car in Ramallah during the Israeli siege of Yasser Arafat's compound, and narrowly escaped injury. He also covered the invasion of Somalia by U.S. forces, and the first Gulf War. He was embedded with the 101st Airborne Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 reporting for NBC News and DateLine NBC and MSNBC.