Paula Todd - Career

Career

Todd entered broadcasting after more than a dozen years at the Toronto Star, where she worked as a reporter, feature writer and political correspondent. Throughout her last four years at the Toronto Star, she also served as an editorial writer and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board.

At TVOntario, she and Steve Paikin co-hosted the nightly newsmagazine Studio 2 for 10 years. She also hosted and co-produced Person 2 Person with Paula Todd, an interview program first broadcast in 2000. She was hired by CTV News Channel, where she did investigative reporting and hosted The Verdict with Paula Todd a prime-time legal and justice affairs program, and was an investigative reporter for CTV News. The debut episode of The Verdict was broadcast on 15 March 2007 from Chicago, where the show was covering United States v. Conrad Black, the criminal fraud trial of Conrad Black.

Todd has written for numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Macleans Magazine, Elm Street Magazine, Canadian Living and Law Times."

Todd served as a judge for the National Newspaper Awards, the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Awards, is a National Magazine Award nominee, and won the Paramedic Association’s Media Award for public education. She is a literacy advocate, and served on the Board of Directors of Integra, an organization that assists children and teens with learning disabilities, a cause she supports.

She serves on the board of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, and is the author of the book A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us which was published in 2004. It was based on Person 2 Person.

A frequent contributor to radio and television before joining TVO, Todd 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. Her contract with CTV News began on 1 March 2007.