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CBC’s Ioanna Roumeliotis joining The Fifth Estate as host

CBC on Tuesday announced award-winning journalist Ioanna Roumeliotis is joining CBC News’ flagship investigative program The Fifth Estate as full-time host alongside current hosts Mark Kelley and Steven D’Souza. A past guest host of The Fifth Estate and most recently a senior reporter with CBC’s The National, Roumeliotis’s first episode in her new position will air Friday, March 7 at 9 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. NT) on CBC and CBC Gem, offering a deeper look at the dark world of online extremism, a topic she previously reported on as guest host of the investigative documentary program. “In her nearly 30 years with CBC News, Ioanna has...