Paula Todd
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Paula Todd (born 1959) is a Canadian journalist, lawyer and author, currently an investigative reporter for W-FIVE. She was the founding host of "The Verdict with Paula Todd" the nightly, live, prime-time legal and justice affairs program on CTV Newsnet. Prior to joining CTV News in 2007, Todd was the host and co-producer of TV Ontario's interview program Person 2 Person with Paula Todd. She previously co-hosted the nightly, Gemini-award-winning newsmagazine Studio 2 with Steve Paikin for 10 years before that show was cancelled in June 2006. Todd has written for numerous publications, including 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. Throughout her last four years at the Toronto Star, she 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 the University's student newspaper Excalibur), her LL.B. from York University's Osgoode Hall Law School.
She is married to Doug Grant, the Director of Current Affairs and Weekly Programming for CBC TV and Newsworld.[citation needed]
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| NAME | Todd, Paula |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | journalist, political analyst, television hostess |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
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