Ginella Massa
{{Short description|Canadian television journalist (born 1987)}}
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Ginella Massa (born January 29, 1987){{cite news|date=November 26, 2016|title=Reporter becomes Canada's first hijab-clad news anchor|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/26/reporter-becomes-canadas-first-hijab-clad-news-anchor|quote="Massa, 29..."}}{{Cite tweet|number=1355255016618123268|user=Ginella_M|title=Jan 29th is my birthday. It’s been hard to celebrate lately because it’s also the day Canada saw {{as written|i|t'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.|author=Ginella Massa}} is a Canadian television journalist. An Afro-Latina Muslim{{cite web |url=https://muslimgirl.com/52814/meet-the-four-muslim-women-that-have-inspired-my-soul/ |title=Meet the Four Muslim Women That Have Inspired My Soul |last=Nouser |first=Mariam |date=February 2018 |access-date=January 24, 2019 |quote="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." }} reporter and anchor, she became Canada'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.{{cite news |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/ginella-massa-becomes-canada-s-first-news-anchor-in-hijab/story-PhSj34njHEp5zRrCjLXcAK.html|newspaper=Hindustan Times |title=Reporter becomes Canada's first hijab-clad news anchor |date=November 26, 2016|accessdate=November 26, 2016}}
Life and career
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.{{cn|date=September 2024}}
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.Jackson Weaver, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ginella-massa-news-network-1.5780246?cmp=rss&fbclid=IwAR1Qa0f187KORkeW1COkFrffNz1mAZPoSp0z4YfSWK6rJoqQZiiQLgmsB0A "Ginella Massa to join CBC News Network as primetime host"]. CBC News, October 28, 2020. Her show, Canada Tonight, premiered on January 11, 2021, on CBC News Network.Bruce DeMara, [https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/01/06/journalist-ginella-massa-steps-into-national-spotlight-as-host-of-canada-tonight.html "Journalist Ginella Massa steps into national spotlight as host of Canada Tonight"]. Toronto Star, January 8, 2021. In October 2022, Massa went on maternity leave to care for her newborn daughter, leading Dwight Drummond to become the temporary host of Canada Tonight for the next year.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-10-27 |title=Revolving Door |url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/?p=54164 |access-date=2022-12-29 |website=Broadcast Dialogue |language=}}{{cite tweet|number=1582539084005748736|user=Ginella_M|title=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! ✌🏾|author=Ginella Massa|date=2022-10-18}}
In July 2023, Massa announced her departure from CBC News to accept a part-time teaching position with Toronto Metropolitan University.Joshua Chong, [https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/ginella-massa-trail-blazing-journalist-and-inaugural-host-of-canada-tonight-to-leave-cbc-news/article_15a50050-3fdf-5319-8dfb-46a3e5acfdd0.html "Ginella Massa, trail-blazing journalist and inaugural host of ‘Canada Tonight,’ to leave CBC News"]. Toronto Star, July 20, 2023. Travis Dhanraj succeeded Massa as the permanent host of Canada Tonight in January 2024.{{Cite web |last=Thiessen |first=Connie |date=2023-11-20 |title=Travis Dhanraj named new host of CBC's 'Canada Tonight' |url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/travis-dhanraj-named-new-host-of-cbcs-canada-tonight/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=Broadcast Dialogue |language=en-US}}
Personal life
Massa married her husband in 2018 in Toronto.{{Cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/relationships/i-met-my-husband-the-love-is-blind-way-sort-of/ar-BB119H0r?li=AAggxAX|title=I Met My Husband The Love is Blind Way. Sort Of|website=www.msn.com|access-date=March 14, 2020}}
In 2019, she had a pancreaticoduodenectomy to remove a mass from her pancreas.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chatelaine.com/living/real-life-stories/ginella-massa-unintentional-weight-loss/|title=My Story Of Unintentional Weight Loss {{!}} Chatelaine|website=www.chatelaine.com|access-date=March 14, 2020}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.ginellamassa.com/ Official website]
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Category:Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Category:Canadian television news anchors
Category:CBC Television people
Category:Canadian women television journalists
Category:Journalists from Toronto
Category:Panamanian emigrants to Canada
Category:Seneca College alumni
Category:York University alumni
Category:Black Canadian broadcasters