Farah Nasser

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Farah Nasser is a Canadian journalist. In May 2015, she was named by Shaw Media as the co-anchor of Global Toronto's 5:30pm and 6pm newscast, alongside Alan Carter. [1] Previous to this role, she was a reporter and anchor with CablePulse24 in Toronto in 2010.

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She previously anchored Citytv Toronto's CityNews weekend editions at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. with Roger Petersen from 2007 until she was laid off on January 19, 2010. CITY-TV announced cuts to several news programs and staff. The weekend news was cancelled, and Nasser was part of a company-wide layoff that affected 6% of CITY's staff, and several on-air presenters. [2]

In June 2022, Global News announced that Nasser would be moving from Global Toronto to join Global National, as weekend anchor. [3]

Early life

Nasser was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, [4] and moved to Toronto to work as a journalist at Newstalk 1010 (1999-2003), Toronto 1 (2003-2005) before joining /A\ Channel News in Barrie (2005-2007). [5]

In 2001, at the age of 20, she landed a summer job with CNN in New Delhi, India. She was then a second-year radio and television student at (then) Ryerson Polytechnic University. She also studied European Media Studies at University of Westminster in London. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Global News Toronto Announces New Anchor Line-up". Broadcaster . 15 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  2. ↑ Lem, Sharon (19 January 2010). "Toronto's Citytv makes cuts". Toronto Sun . Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "FARAH NASSER JOINS GLOBAL NATIONAL AS WEEKEND ANCHOR". Corus Entertainment. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  4. ↑ "Farah Nasser: My first experience with racism". Global News. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  5. 1 2 Actually, Muslims. "Farah Nasser – Redefining Muslim Women on TV" . Retrieved 2018-07-19.


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