TORONTO – On Monday, Toronto’s Global News Morning will have a new co-host: Anne Marie Mediwake. 
The station announced in a press release late Friday that veteran broadcaster Mediwake (right) will be the new co-anchor for Global News Morning, alongside Alan Carter. She had been seen on Global News as co-anchor and reporter at noon and at 5:30.
The release made no mention of Christine Crosbie, the woman Mediwake is replacing. However, Crosbie is taking over as health reporter for Global News for Cortney Pasternak, who is on maternity leave. According to a spokesperson Crosbie has a young family and the decision to abandon a shift that begins at 3 a.m. was a personal choice.
"Anne Marie will bring tremendous energy as the new co-anchor of Global News Morning," said Ron Waksman, news director at Global Television Ontario in a release. "She’s a fresh face equally skilled at storytelling and interviewing, a news anchor Ontario viewers will enjoy waking up to."
"I’m excited to be joining the morning show team," says Mediwake, "and I’m looking forward to waking up with Ontario while drawing heavily on the 2 C’s of morning show anchoring, coffee and concealer."
She was born in Sri Lanka and came to Canada as an infant. Raised in Southern Alberta, Mediwake began her television career there in 1993, moving to Toronto in 1999 as a producer and reporter with 100 Huntley Street, before joining CTV in 2001. There, she co-hosted the award winning 21©, an investigative, current-affairs program aimed at Canada’s youth. Before leaving to join the Global, she also reported for Canada AM, CTV’s National News with Lloyd Robertson and various network specials.
Recently, Mediwake travelled to her homeland and tsunami stricken Sri Lanka, to bring back a one-hour prime time Global News special, Sri Lanka: A Journey Home.
