Paula Todd
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Paula Todd (born 1959) is a Canadian journalist, lawyer and author, best known as host of TV Ontario's long-form, popular interview program Person 2 Person with Paula Todd. She previously co-hosted the nightly, Gemini-award-winning newsmagazine Studio 2 with Steve Paikin before that show's cancellation in June 2006. Todd has written more than 1,000 articles for such publications as The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Elm Street Magazine, Canadian Living, and The Law Times.
Todd entered public broadcasting after more than a dozen years at Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, where she worked as a reporter, feature writer and Queen’s Park political correspondent. The last four years at the Toronto Star, Todd served as an editorial writer and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board.
Todd served as a judge for the National Newspaper Awards, the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Awards and was nominated for a 'National Magazine Award' in 2003. She is the 2004 recipient of the Paramedic Association’s Media Award for public education, and serves on the Board of Directors of Integra, an organization that assists children and teens with learning disabilities.
She is the author of the best-selling book A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us.
A frequent contributor to radio and television before joining TVO, Paula was a regular host on CBC Newsworld's 'Face Off', appeared as a frequent Global TV and CBC panelist, and also as a political analyst for CBC Radio in Toronto and Ottawa. Paula earned her B.A. in English literature from York University (where she served as co-editor of Excalibur), her LL.B. from York University's Osgoode Hall Law School.
On February 21, 2007, CTV announced that Todd would be joining its network, effective March 1 to become host of The Verdict with Paula Todd.
She is married to Doug Grant, the Director of Current Affairs and Weekly Programming for CBC TV and Newsworld.
