Anna Maria Tremonti
Template:Short description Template:Infobox presenter
Anna Maria Tremonti (born July 2, 1957) is a Canadian radio and television journalist who has been featured on a variety of radio and television programs on the CBC.
She has served as a senior reporter for The National, where she won two Gemini Awards,<ref>"CBC big Gemini winner". Vancouver Sun, October 3, 1998.</ref> and a host of The Fifth Estate, where she won a Gracie Award.<ref>Electric Current Template:Webarchive, by Marianne Delija, at the Ryerson Review of Journalism; published June 2004; retrieved May 1, 2014</ref> From 2002 until 2019, she hosted CBC Radio One's morning news and current affairs program The Current;<ref>"Anna Maria Tremonti switches to radio". Toronto Star, July 24, 2002.</ref> in May 2019, she announced that she would retire from the program at the end of her 17th season, and transition to a new role creating and hosting two new CBC podcasts.<ref>"Anna Maria Tremonti leaves CBC’s The Current after 17 seasons". The Globe and Mail, May 27, 2019.</ref> In November 2019, her first new podcast was announced, which was released in January 2020, as More With Anna Maria Tremonti.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Born in Windsor, Ontario, she began her journalism career at the University of Windsor student newspaper, The Lance, and the university's radio station, CJAM.<ref>"Toll of wars vivid for broadcaster". Windsor Star, March 27, 2002.</ref>
Her later experiences included private broadcasting contracts in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia at CKEC Radio and Toronto before serving with the CBC in Fredericton, Halifax, Edmonton, Ottawa and Toronto. She also worked as a CBC correspondent in Europe, and was for several years the chief CBC correspondent in the Middle East.<ref>"Reporter savours dream job in Israel". Ottawa Citizen, July 4, 1998.</ref>
She is the partner of former Toronto city councillor John Filion.<ref>Acknowledgements in Filion's book The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford. Random House of Canada, 2015. Template:ISBN.</ref> In February 2022, she published Welcome to Paradise on CBC Radio and in podcast format. Welcome to Paradise is an audio memoir of her earlier marriage to an abusive husband.<ref>Connie Thiessen, "New series from Anna Maria Tremonti, Tamara Khandaker headline CBC Podcasts’ winter slate". Broadcast Dialogue, January 13, 2022.</ref>
References
External links
- Anna Maria Tremonti
- Welcome to Paradise (podcast site on CBC Radio)
- CBC: More with Anna Maria Tremonti
- 1957 births
- Canadian television reporters and correspondents
- Canadian radio news anchors
- Canadian women podcasters
- Canadian podcasters
- Canadian Screen Award winning journalists
- Canadian people of Italian descent
- Living people
- People from Windsor, Ontario
- University of Windsor alumni
- Canadian talk radio hosts
- CBC Radio hosts
- CBC Television people
- Journalists from Ontario
- Canadian women radio journalists
- 20th-century Canadian journalists
- 21st-century Canadian journalists
- Canadian women television journalists
- 20th-century Canadian women journalists
- Canadian women radio hosts
- 21st-century Canadian women journalists