Steven Hillel PaikinOCOOnt (born June 9,1960) is a Canadian journalist,author,and documentary producer. Paikin has primarily worked for TVOntario (TVO),Ontario's public broadcaster,and is anchor of TVO's flagship current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
Paikin was an anchor and Queen's Park correspondent for CBC Television's Toronto station CBLT-TV,and host of a daily news and current affairs program on CBC Newsworld. He also held reporting jobs in private radio and print media,including the Hamilton Spectator and Toronto radio station CHFI,where he was Toronto City Hall reporter from 1982–85.
In 1992,Paikin began work at TVO,hosting the political series Between the Lines until 1994. He also co-created the Queen's Park magazine Fourth Reading,which he hosted for 14 years. In 1994,Paikin began co-hosting duties (with Mary Hynes for two years,and then Paula Todd) on Studio 2 until 2006. In 1998,he co-created and began hosting Diplomatic Immunity,a weekly foreign affairs commentary show.
Paikin frequently is selected to be the moderator of election debates. He acted as a moderator for federal leaders debates in 2006,2008,2011,and 2025[4] and for Ontario provincial leaders debates in 2007,2011,2014,2018 and 2022.
Aside from his hosting and journalistic endeavors,Paikin has produced a number of feature-length documentaries:Return to the Warsaw Ghetto;A Main Street Man;Balkan Madness;Teachers,Tories and Turmoil;and Chairman of the Board:The Life and Death of John Robarts. For 1993's Return to the Warsaw Ghetto,Paikin won the "Silver Screen Award" at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival,and received awards at the Yorkton Film Festival in Saskatchewan and at China's Shanghai Film Festival.
In February 2012,Paikin was named the Queen's Park journalist with the most Twitter influence in a study conducted by PR agency Hill+Knowlton Strategies.[5]
Paikin retired as a full-time TVO host on June 27,2025,which was also the final episode of The Agenda. He will be continuing with TVO as co-host of the weekly political podcast #onpoli,and writing column's for TVO's website as well as hosting the town hall series,TVO Today Live,which airs several times a year,and the YouTube history series,Ontario Chronicle.[6][7]
He is a cousin to the late Dr. Harry Paikin,a Hamilton school trustee for 30 years who was a Labor-Progressive Party candidate for the Ontario legislature in the 1945 Ontario election.[12] Another cousin,Harold Paikin,was mayor of Waterloo from 1958-59. Another cousin,Carol Paikin Miller,was a Hamilton school trustee and married to former NDP MPP Paul Miller.[1][13]
The New Game: How Hockey Saved Itself (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2007) ( ISBN0-670-06560-9)
Paikin and the Premiers: Personal Reflections on a Half Century of Ontario Leaders (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013) ( ISBN978-1-45970-958-4)
I am a Victor: The Mordechai Ronen Story by Mordechai Ronen with Steve Paikin (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2015). ( ISBN978-1-45973-178-3)
Bill Davis: Nation Builder, and Not So Bland After All (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2016) ( ISBN978-1-45973-175-2)
Introduction to Without Walls or Barriers: The Speeches of Premier David Peterson by Arthur Milnes and Ryan Zade (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017) ( ISBN978-1553395256).
John Turner: An Intimate Biography of Canada's 17th Prime Minister (Toronto: Sutherland House Press, 2022).
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