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Thursday, January 29, 2004 @ 8 am
OPENING ALL-CONFERENCE PLENARY
Plenary Super Hero...
PAULA TODD
TVOntario STUDIO 2
SUPERPOWERS:
- Political analysis
- Intelligence and insight
- Social context and human interaction
- Attention to what is significant
PROFILE:
This is Paula Todd's eighth season as co-host of Studio 2, TV
Ontario's popular flagship current events program, which won the Gemini
for the Best Talk Show in Canada in 2003. She also hosts and
co-produces "Person 2 Person with Paula Todd," an intimate biography program about
human behavior, which won the Tema Conter Memorial Trust Media Award in
2003.
Paula came to Studio 2 from The Toronto Star, which she first
joined in 1983 and where she worked as a reporter, feature writer and Queen's
Park correspondent. In her last four years at The Star, Paula served
as an editorial writer and a member of the newspaper's editorial board.
Paula, who is also a lawyer, has worked extensively as a national magazine
writer and columnist for such publications as Elm Street Magazine, Homemaker's
and The Law Times. She's served as a National Newspaper Awards judge,
and was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2003.
A frequent contributor to radio and television before joining TVO,
Paula was a guest host on Newsworld's Face Off, appeared as a Global TV
and CBC panelist, and also as a political analyst for CBC Radio in Ottawa.
Paula earned her B.A. in English Literature from York University (where
she served as co-editor of Excalibur), her L.L.B from Osgoode Hall Law
School (where she wrote a media manual for poverty law clinics) and was
called to the Ontario Bar in 1990.
She is currently writing a book for Thomas Allen & Son about the
exceptional courage of ordinary people.
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