TORONTO — Global News announced yesterday award-winning journalist and anchor Farah Nasser (above) is joining its flagship newscast Global National as weekend anchor after co-anchoring Global Toronto’s Global News for seven years.
Nasser will continue reporting for Global’s national current affairs program, The New Reality, a press release says. Her last day on the local Toronto newscast is today.
“I’m honoured to be joining Global National. It is a bittersweet moment and while I’m sad to leave my Global Toronto colleagues, I’m excited for this new opportunity to expand my role to reach a wider national audience,” Nasser said in the press release.
Nasser joined Global Toronto in 2015 as co-anchor on Global News at 5:30 & 6 “and quickly rose to become a respected newsroom leader and mentor,” the release says.
With more than two decades of journalism experience, Nasser is described as “a trailblazer” by Global News. “She has initiated difficult conversations related to race and championed diversity and inclusion through storytelling,” the release reads.
Nasser received the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for her special Living in Colour: Being Black in Canada. She also won the Radio Television Digital News Association’s (RTDNA) Sam Ross Award for her viral commentaries 93 Killed a Day at the Barrel of a Gun (2018) and What If the Fighting in Aleppo Was Happening in Toronto? (2017). “The latter story is used as a teaching aid in schools to explain the Syrian conflict,” the release says.
“Nasser has covered major events with accuracy, grace and compassion including the Toronto van attack, the London, Ont. terror attack that killed a Muslim family, and was in Washington, D.C. for the election of President Joe Biden.”
She was also the first journalist granted a one-on-one interview with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when the country reopened after pandemic restrictions were lifted in 2021.
“Farah is a consummate professional and a passionate journalist who audiences trust. She has an incredible ability to break down stories in a compelling and relatable way. Farah is a powerhouse on every platform and we’re lucky to have her part of the Global National team,” said Ingrid Bakewell, national director of network programming at Global News, in the release.
Nasser is a member of the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s board of directors, and she serves as a mentor for the Canadian Association of Journalists and for non-profit CivicAction.
A regular speaker at community events, she has worked with organizations such as Journalists for Human Rights, the Aga Khan Foundation and the Economic Club of Canada.
She is a graduate of the radio and television arts program at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).
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