Radio / Television News

Cartt.ca Interview: Anna Maria Tremonti on technology, fake news and the truth


VETERAN JOURNALIST AND CBC stalwart Anna Maria Tremonti reversed her iconic role as interviewer and was the guest – in the same Toronto studio where she hosts The Current – on a special “Ask Me Anything” 26-minute segment on the network’s radio national call-in show Cross Country Checkup, two Sundays ago.Listeners asked Tremonti various questions, including what she would ask U.S. President Donald Trump in an interview (“I would not try not to argue with him”) and offered some personal anecdotes to Checkup host Duncan McCue, who sat in The Current seat Tremonti normally occupies. “I sing in the car...