Cartt.ca Interview (part II): Anna Maria Tremonti on hard lessons learned

By Christopher Guly

LAST THURSDAY, ANNA MARIA TREMONTI hosted her final episode of The Current before an audience at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto.As she moves onto podcasting for the CBC, Tremonti won’t have to wake up weekday mornings at 4:30 a.m. and be at the studio by 6 a.m. to be ready to go live with the network’s flagship current-affairs radio program at 7:37 a.m. for the Maritimes.Having a more flexible schedule will allow the veteran broadcaster to pursue stories and ideas that have driven her 41-year career in journalism, which she addresses in the second part of an interview with...