Farah Nasser
Template:Short description Farah Nasser is a Canadian journalist. She has anchored for Citytv (2007-2010), CP24, and Global News (2015 to 2024).
Career
Nasser was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada,[1] and moved to Toronto to work as a journalist at Newstalk 1010 (1999-2003), Toronto 1 (2003-2005) before joining /A\ Channel News in Barrie (2005-2007).[2]
In 2001, at the age of 20, she landed a summer job with CNN in New Delhi, India. She was then a second-year radio and television student at (then) Ryerson Polytechnic University. She also studied European Media Studies at University of Westminster in London.[2]
She anchored Citytv Toronto's CityNews weekend editions at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. with Roger Petersen from 2007 until she was laid off on January 19, 2010. CITY-TV announced cuts to several news programs and staff. The weekend news was cancelled, and Nasser was part of a company-wide layoff that affected 6% of CITY's staff, and several on-air presenters.[3] She was a reporter and anchor with CablePulse24 in Toronto in 2010. In May 2015, she was named by Shaw Media as the co-anchor of Global Toronto's 5:30pm and 6pm newscast, alongside Alan Carter.[4]
In June 2022, Global News announced that Nasser would be moving from Global Toronto to join Global National, as weekend anchor.[5]
In June 2024, Nasser announced on Global National she is moving on from the network.[6][7]
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