Wei Chen (journalist)

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Wei Chen is a Canadian television and radio journalist. Born in Taiwan, she started her career with stations in London and Hamilton. [1] She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before moving to Canada AM , the morning show at the CTV Television Network. [1] She was also an anchor on CTV News Channel [2] and a correspondent for the network's newsmagazine series W5 , receiving Gemini Award nominations in 2000 and 2002 for her work with W5. [3]

In 2003, Chen left CTV to work for independent station CKXT-DT as anchor of its daytime news program Toronto Today. [4] The program was cancelled after only eight months on the air, [5] and Chen was reassigned as a reporter for the primetime magazine program Toronto Tonight until that program was also cancelled in 2005. [6]

She then joined CBC Television and worked at TV stations in Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto until January 2007, when she became the new host of CBC Radio One's Ontario Morning , the network's local morning show for non-metropolitan markets in Southern Ontario, until 2022. [7] She lives in Toronto with her husband Michael Pollard and daughter (Jensen), who she adopted in 2003. [8] [9] [10]

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  2. ↑ "CTV News One all set to begin cable operations". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix , August 14, 1997.
  3. ↑ "Here are the nominees for the 15th annual Gemini Awards". Canadian Press, September 19, 2000.
  4. ↑ Ross Oakland, "New channel takes to the airwaves; Station has been built from the ground up Launch gala with 1,500 goes on despite the rain". Toronto Star , September 20, 2003.
  5. ↑ Michelle DaCruz, "Craig Media cuts shows, jobs at Toronto 1: Channel tries to stem losses of $1-million a week". National Post , May 19, 2004.
  6. ↑ Gayle MacDonald, "Troubled station backs off local news". The Globe and Mail , May 27, 2005.
  7. ↑ "Mother's last goodbye haunts her still; Wei Chen's family didn't talk about her mom's cancer, so her death was harder still". Toronto Star , September 24, 2009.
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