Paula Todd
{{short description|Canadian journalist}}
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Paula Todd is a Canadian investigative journalist, author, and lawyer. She is a professor in the School of Media at Seneca College.{{Cite web|url=https://www.senecacollege.ca/media/experts/paula-todd.html|title=Paula Todd – Seneca – Toronto, Canada|website=senecacollege.ca}}
In 2012, Todd published a book about the Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka and since then, she has published several books including Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online (2014), and Extreme Mean: Ending Cyber Abuse at School, Work & Home (2015). The book was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Nonfiction respectively.
Education and career
In 1982, Todd earned her BA in English from York University and afterwards an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1988.{{sfn|York University|2007b|}} She was called to the bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada (now known as Law Society of Ontario) in 1990.{{sfn|York University|2007c|p=22}} As of 2019, she is a licensed, non-practicing lawyer in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario.{{sfn|Law Society of Ontario}} After graduating in 1982, Todd was hired by the Toronto Star, where she worked as a reporter, feature writer, and political correspondent.{{sfn|York University|2007c}} She also served as an editorial writer and a member of the editorial board.{{sfn|York University|2007c}}
In 1996, she was hired by TVOntario, where she along Steve Paikin, co-hosted the nightly Studio 2.{{sfn|York University|2007c}} She also hosted and co-produced Person 2 Person with Paula Todd, an interview program which aired in 2000.{{sfn|York University|2007c}} Todd has worked for many broadcasting services
including the CTV News Channel, where she was an investigative reporter as well as hosted The Verdict with Paula Todd.{{sfn|CTV News|2007}} The debut episode of The Verdict was broadcast in Chicago on 15 March 2007,{{sfn|CBC News|2014}} and covered Black v. United States, the criminal fraud trial of Conrad Black.{{sfn|York University|2007b}}
Todd has written for numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Maclean's, Canadian Living and Law Times.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}
Todd served as a judge for the National Newspaper Awards, the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Awards, is a National Magazine Award nominee, and won the Paramedic Association's Media Award for public education. She is a literacy advocate, and served on the Board of Directors of Integra, an organization that assists children and teens with learning disabilities, a cause she supports.{{sfn|International Dyslexia Association, Ontario branch|2009}}
She served on the board of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, and is the author of the book A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us which was published in 2004. It was based on Person 2 Person.{{sfn|York University|2004}}
A frequent contributor to radio and television before joining TVO, Todd was a regular host on CBC Newsworld's Face Off, appeared as a frequent Global TV and CBC panelist, and also as a political analyst for CBC Radio in Toronto and Ottawa. Her contract with CTV News began on 1 March 2007.{{sfn|York University|2007}}
Writing
In 2012, Todd wrote a book chronicling her search for and eventual discovery of Karla Homolka several years after Homolka had been released from prison.{{sfn|Ha|2012}}
In 2014, Signal Books published Todd's third non-fiction book, Extreme Mean: Ending Cyberabuse at School, Work and Home. Her book was shortlisted by the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2014{{sfn|CBC Arts|2014}} and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Non-Fiction in 2015.{{sfn|CBC Arts|2015}}
Works
- {{cite book|title=A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us|publisher=Midpoint Trade Books|year=2004|isbn=9780887621550|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/quietcourageinsp0000todd}}
- {{cite book|title=Finding Karla: How I Tracked Down An Elusive Serial Child Killer|publisher=Canadian Writers Group/The Atavist|year=2012}}
- {{cite book|title=Extreme Mean|publisher=Signal|year=2014}}
Notes
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References
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- {{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/karla-homolka-lives-in-guadeloupe-and-has-three-children-new-book-reveals/article4360378/|title=Karla Homolka lives in Guadeloupe and has three children, new book reveals|last=Ha|first=Tu Thanh|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=21 June 2012|access-date=14 March 2014}}
- {{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/books/2014/09/hilary-weston-prize-2014-the-shortlist-revealed.html|title=Hilary Weston Prize 2014: The shortlist revealed!|publisher=CBC Books|date=17 September 2014|ref={{harvid|CBC Arts|2014}} }}
- {{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/books/2015/04/2015-arthur-ellis-awards-finalists-announced.html|title=2015 Arthur Ellis Awards finalists announced|publisher=CBC Arts|date=23 April 2015|access-date=27 April 2015|ref={{harvid|CBC Arts|2015}} }}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/todd-hosts-legal-affairs-show-the-verdict-1.674789|title=Todd hosts legal affairs show The Verdict|publisher=CBC News|date=14 March 2007|access-date=15 March 2014|ref={{harvid|CBC News|2014}} }}
- {{cite news|url=http://media.ctv.ca/ctvnewsnet/releases/release.asp?id=9349&yyyy=2009|title=The Verdict Is In. Paula Todd to Host Canada's First Crime and Legal Affairs News Series|publisher=CTV News|date=12 March 2007|access-date=31 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307192435/http://media.ctv.ca/ctvnewsnet/releases/release.asp?id=9349&yyyy=2009|archive-date=7 March 2012|url-status=dead|ref={{harvid|CTV News|2007}} }}
- {{cite news|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/dyslexia/toronto/prweb2350484.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426235526/http://www.prweb.com/releases/dyslexia/toronto/prweb2350484.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 April 2009|title=Paula Todd from CTV's W-FIVE Appearing at Toronto Dyslexia Conference|agency=PRWeb|publisher=Ontario Branch of the International Dyslexia Association|date=23 April 2009|access-date= 31 May 2010|ref={{harvid|International Dyslexia Association, Ontario branch|2009}} }}
- {{cite web|url=https://lso.ca/public-resources/finding-a-lawyer-or-paralegal/directory-search/members/lawyer/027/paula-joy-todd|title=Paula Joy Todd|publisher=Law Society of Ontario|access-date=28 December 2019|ref={{harvid|Law Society of Ontario}} }}
- {{cite web|url=http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2004/11/01/justice-system-must-recognize-fetal-alcohol-syndrome/|title=Stories of hardship inspire author|work=Yfile|publisher=York University|date=1 November 2004|access-date=31 May 2010|ref={{harvid|York University|2004}}|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316005448/http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2004/11/01/justice-system-must-recognize-fetal-alcohol-syndrome/|archive-date=16 March 2014|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=7973|title=Alumna Paula Todd joins CTV News|work=Yfile|publisher=York University|date=26 February 2007|access-date=31 May 2010|ref={{harvid|York University|2007}} }}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.yorku.ca/ylife/2007/03-March/03-19/media.htm|title=Paula Todd hosts new show covering Black trial|work=Ylife|publisher=York University|date=19 March 2007|access-date=31 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606180718/http://www.yorku.ca/ylife/2007/03-March/03-19/media.htm|archive-date=6 June 2011|ref={{harvid|York University|2007b}} }}
- {{cite journal|journal=YorkU|url=http://cpa.info.yorku.ca/files/2011/12/YorkU_October07.pdf|title=In Paula's Court|publisher=York University|date=1 October 2007|access-date=15 March 2014|ref={{harvid|York University|2007c}} }}
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External links
- {{LinkedIn URL|https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulatodd}}
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