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Ginella Massa

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Ginella Massa
Massa in 2024
Born (1987-01-29) January 29, 1987 (age 39)
Panama
OccupationJournalist
Websitewww.massamedia.ca

Ginella Massa (born January 29, 1987)[1][2] is a Canadian television journalist, and the CEO of Massa Media and Communication Inc[3] — a boutique media consulting firm. An Afro-Latina Muslim[4] reporter and anchor, she became North America’s first hijab-wearing television reporter in 2015, and the first news anchor in hijab when she anchored the 11 p.m. newscast for CityNews on CITY-DT in Toronto, Ontario, on November 17, 2016.[5]

Life and career

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An honors graduate of York University and Seneca College, she has worked both behind-the-scenes and on-air for local and national Canadian news outlets since 2010, including CTV News, CFRB and Rogers Television, and has been published in The Globe and Mail and the National Post.[citation needed]

In 2020, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced that Massa would join the network as host of a prime-time show on CBC News Network and a special correspondent for The National.[6] Her show, Canada Tonight, premiered on January 11, 2021, on CBC News Network.[7] In October 2022, Massa went on maternity leave to care for her newborn daughter,[8] leading Dwight Drummond to become the temporary host of Canada Tonight for the next year.[9][10]

In July 2023, Massa announced that she would not be returning to CBC News.[8] Travis Dhanraj succeeded Massa as the permanent host of Canada Tonight in January 2024.[11]

Personal life

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Massa married her husband in 2018 in Toronto.[12]

In 2019, she had a pancreaticoduodenectomy to remove a mass from her pancreas.[13]

References

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  1. ↑ "Reporter becomes Canada's first hijab-clad news anchor". The Guardian. November 26, 2016. Massa, 29...
  2. ↑ Ginella Massa [@Ginella_M] (January 29, 2021). "Jan 29th is my birthday. It's been hard to celebrate lately because it's also the day Canada saw it's [sic] worst mass shooting. I remember coming home from celebrating with friends and turning on the TV to hear a gunman had opened fire in a Quebec mosque. I felt sick" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ↑ "Massa Media Website".
  4. ↑ Nouser, Mariam (February 2018). "Meet the Four Muslim Women That Have Inspired My Soul". Retrieved January 24, 2019. Ginella is an Afro-Latina Muslim, and works as a reporter for CityNews, a local news channel in Toronto. She was born to a Christian family in Panama City, and became Muslim early on as a child when her mother converted to Islam.
  5. ↑ "Reporter becomes Canada's first hijab-clad news anchor". Hindustan Times. November 26, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
  6. ↑ Jackson Weaver, "Ginella Massa to join CBC News Network as primetime host". CBC News, October 28, 2020.
  7. ↑ Bruce DeMara, "Journalist Ginella Massa steps into national spotlight as host of Canada Tonight". Toronto Star, January 8, 2021.
  8. 1 2 Joshua Chong, "Ginella Massa, trail-blazing journalist and inaugural host of ‘Canada Tonight,’ to leave CBC News". Toronto Star, July 20, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Revolving Door". Broadcast Dialogue. October 27, 2022. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
  10. ↑ Ginella Massa [@Ginella_M] (October 18, 2022). "That's a wrap for me on Canada Tonight as I head off on maternity leave! All the best to @dwightdrummond who takes over hosting duties for the next year starting Monday Oct 24th. See you next year! ✌🏾" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  11. ↑ Thiessen, Connie (November 20, 2023). "Travis Dhanraj named new host of CBC's 'Canada Tonight'". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  12. ↑ "I Met My Husband The Love is Blind Way. Sort Of". www.msn.com. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  13. ↑ "My Story Of Unintentional Weight Loss | Chatelaine". www.chatelaine.com. October 4, 2019. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
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