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Paula Todd | |
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Paula Todd is aCanadian investigative journalist, author, and lawyer. She is a professor in the School of Media atSeneca College.[1]
In 2012, Todd published a book about the Canadian serial killerKarla Homolka and since then, she has published several books includingExtreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online (2014), andExtreme Mean: Ending Cyber Abuse at School, Work & Home (2015). The book was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the 2015Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Nonfiction respectively.
In 1982, Todd earned her BA inEnglish from York University and afterwards an LL.B. fromOsgoode Hall Law School in 1988.[2] She was called to the bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada (now known asLaw Society of Ontario) in 1990.[3] As of 2019, she is a licensed, non-practicing lawyer in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario.[4] After graduating in 1982, Todd was hired by theToronto Star, where she worked as a reporter, feature writer, and political correspondent.[5] She also served as an editorial writer and a member of theeditorial board.[5]
In 1996, she was hired byTVOntario, where she alongSteve Paikin, co-hosted the nightlyStudio 2.[5] She also hosted and co-producedPerson 2 Person with Paula Todd, an interview program which aired in 2000.[5] Todd has worked for many broadcasting services including theCTV News Channel, where she was an investigative reporter as well as hostedThe Verdict with Paula Todd.[6] The debut episode ofThe Verdict was broadcast in Chicago on 15 March 2007,[7] and coveredBlack v. United States, the criminal fraud trial ofConrad Black.[2]
Todd has written for numerous publications, includingThe Globe and Mail, theToronto Star,Maclean's,Canadian Living andLaw Times.[citation needed]
Todd served as a judge for theNational 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.[8]
She served on the board of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, and is the author of the bookA Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us which was published in 2004. It was based onPerson 2 Person.[9]
A frequent contributor to radio and television before joining TVO, Todd was a regular host onCBC Newsworld'sFace Off, appeared as a frequentGlobal TV andCBC panelist, and also as a political analyst for CBC Radio in Toronto and Ottawa. Her contract with CTV News began on 1 March 2007.[10]
In 2012, Todd wrote a book chronicling her search for and eventual discovery of Karla Homolka several years after Homolka had been released from prison.[11]
In 2014,Signal Books published Todd's third non-fiction book,Extreme Mean: Ending Cyberabuse at School, Work and Home. Her book wasshortlisted by theHilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2014[12] and theArthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Non-Fiction in 2015.[13]
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