Farah Nasser

Canadian journalist

Farah Nasser is a Canadian journalist. She has anchored for Citytv (2007-2010), CP24, and Global News (2015 to 2024).

Career

Nasser was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada,^[1] and moved to Toronto to work as a journalist at Newstalk 1010 (1999-2003), Toronto 1 (2003-2005) before joining /A\ Channel News in Barrie (2005-2007).^[2]

In 2001, at the age of 20, she landed a summer job with CNN in New Delhi, India. She was then a second-year radio and television student at (then) Ryerson Polytechnic University. She also studied European Media Studies at University of Westminster in London.^[2]

She anchored Citytv Toronto's CityNews weekend editions at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. with Roger Petersen from 2007 until she was laid off on January 19, 2010. CITY-TV announced cuts to several news programs and staff. The weekend news was cancelled, and Nasser was part of a company-wide layoff that affected 6% of CITY's staff, and several on-air presenters.^[3] She was a reporter and anchor with CablePulse24 in Toronto in 2010. In May 2015, she was named by Shaw Media as the co-anchor of Global Toronto's 5:30pm and 6pm newscast, alongside Alan Carter.^[4]

In June 2022, Global News announced that Nasser would be moving from Global Toronto to join Global National, as weekend anchor.^[5]

In June 2024, Nasser announced on Global National she is moving on from the network.^[6]^[7]

References

^ "Farah Nasser: My first experience with racism". Global News. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
^ ^a ^b Actually, Muslims. "Farah Nasser – Redefining Muslim Women on TV". Retrieved 2018-07-19.
^ Lem, Sharon (19 January 2010). "Toronto's Citytv makes cuts". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
^ "Global News Toronto Announces New Anchor Line-up". Broadcaster. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
^ "FARAH NASSER JOINS GLOBAL NATIONAL AS WEEKEND ANCHOR". Corus Entertainment. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
^ "x.com". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 2024-06-15.
^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2024-06-15.