Antonia Zerbisias

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Antonia Zerbisias (born Montreal) is a Canadian journalist and media critic.

She has been a reporter and TV host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as the Montreal correspondent for Variety trade paper. She was nominated for ACTRA awards for her documentary writing in 1980 and 1981.

In the 1980s she returned to school to earn her MBA (Marketing Research, Honours, 1985), while still working as a journalist for CBC-TV and Variety. In 1986, she became a reporter/producer for the CBC-TV business show Venture [1].

Zerbisias joined the Toronto Star in 1989, where she is still employed as a columnist. She began as a broadcasting critic and reporter and, in 1991, joined the Montreal bureau. In 1993, she returned to Toronto and became media reporter. She won the 1996 National Newspaper Award for critical writing for her columns about magazines. In 1997, she became TV critic and then, in 2003, was appointed media columnist. In 2002-2003, she co-hosted the CBC Newsworld program Inside Media [2] with Matthew Fraser.

Both her current Star column and her blog are devoted to media and journalism. Zerbisias's blog effectively went on hiatus in August 2006, with only occasional postings thereafter.