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The series provides information on Brian McKenna’s journalistic career, from its beginning as reporter for the Loyola News in the 1960s to his regular writings for The Montreal Star from 1967 to 1985, where he contributed especially as parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa and on the coverage of Expo ‘67 in Montreal. The series also contains articles McKenna contributed to various magazines and The Canadian Encyclopedia, and book reviews, as well as research material and the manuscript for his book on Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, published in 1981.

The series is organized into the following subseries:
• B1 Loyola News
• B2 The Montreal Star
• B3 Magazine and encyclopedia articles.
• B4 Jean Drapeau - book.

The series contains newspaper clippings, newspapers (among others several issues of Loyola News), research material, correspondence, and notes, but also photographs, drawings, proof prints, drafts, and a printed copy of McKenna’s book Jean Drapeau, and a replica of the satellite Sputnik from the United States Pavilion at Expo 67.

The series provides background information on Brian McKenna's education from his days at St. Thomas High School to Loyola College, as well as his experience as a Boy Scout. It also provides information on members of his family.

The series contains personal correspondence, curricula vitae, notes, essays, photographs, press clippings, a year book, and other documents.

The series provides information on various documentaries Brian McKenna worked on throughout his career. It covers documentaries that he produced for the CBC, and especially for The Fifth Estate, as well as independent productions, and even film proposals that finally never had been produced. The series spans from the 13-minute documentary Thomas D’Arcy McGee, McKenna’s first film that he wrote and directed for CBC City at 6 in 1973, to his later works as an independent filmmaker, as Newfoundland at Armageddon.
The series contains most of the research material gathered in the preparation of the documentaries as well as occasional comments, reviews and other feedback, and awards received.
Finally, the series includes Brian McKenna’s contribution to CBC radio in 1971.

The series is organized into the following subseries:
• G1 Film proposals and ideas
• G2 CBC radio scripts
• G3 CBC The City at 6
• G4 CBC documentaries
• G5 CBC Current Affairs : The Fifth Estate
• G6 Independently produced documentaries.

The series contains, but is not limited to, scripts, interviews, research material, drafts, notes, correspondence, press clippings, film proposals, monographs, court records, photographs, publications, objects, a report, videos, sound recordings, financial records, posters, and other documents.

The series provides information on Wartime Production and McKenna Purcell Productions, two companies incorporated by Brian McKenna and Susan Purcell, and used to produce several films, as The Valour and the Horror. The series also provides information on administrative aspects of the Fifth Estate, people McKenna worked with or contracted for his documentaries, and the technology used by McKenna in the 1980s.

The series is organized into the following subseries:
• F1 Fifth Estate
• F2 McKenna Purcell Productions / Wartime Production

The series contains, among other documents, annual reports, budgets, newspaper articles, financial statements, certificates, correspondence, CVs, pamphlets, advertisements, photographs, project proposals, sound recordings, a webpage template, a video, and documents related to the companies’ incorporations.

The series provides information on awards Brian McKenna received between 1970 and 2010.

The series contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, statues, plaques, a pewter, a medal, and several ACTRA Awards programs.

The series provides information on Brian McKenna's involvement with the Latin American Committee, the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), and the Committee to Protect Journalists (on human rights). It also includes his involvement as Max Bell Fellowship professor at the University of Regina School of Journalism.

P0112/C1 Involvement in Committees.
P0112/C2 Max Bell Fellowship

The series contains newsletters, reports, books and pamphlets, meeting minutes, newspaper articles, correspondence, notes, film proposals, and an open letter.

The series provides information on speeches and conferences given by Brian McKenna from 1981 to 1995, including a video of the Canadian National Debating Seminar of 1995 when Brian McKenna was asked to debate against a conservative economist on supporting the arts.

The series contains a newsletter, speeches, newspaper clippings, publications, notes, correspondence, and a video.