{"id":43996,"date":"2021-01-08T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/?p=43996"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T21:20:22","slug":"groundbreaking-journalist-ginella-massa-makes-history-with-cbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/2021\/01\/groundbreaking-journalist-ginella-massa-makes-history-with-cbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking Journalist Ginella Massa Makes History With CBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Groundbreaking television journalist and anchor Ginella Massa is making <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2021\/01\/08\/ginella-massa-to-make-history-with-cbc-news-show-canada-tonight-with-ginella-massa\/\">history<\/a> as the first hijab-wearing host of a national television news program in Canada. The award-winning journalist&#8217;s new CBC show <em>Canada Tonight with Ginella Massa<\/em> begins on January 11<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a statement released when the announcement was made, Massa shared her excitement. \u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true to be joining Canada\u2019s national public broadcaster,\u201d said Massa. \u201cI\u2019m excited to bring a fresh perspective to CBC, and connect with Canadians across the country every night. I look forward to working with an amazing team, as we dissect and discuss the issues that matter most to our country.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Massa&#8217;s previous work includes time at NewsTalk 1010 and as an on-air anchor at CityNews Toronto.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Back to work and a busy day of meetings preparing for our show launch next week. Super excited (and super nervous) to show you what we\u2019ve been working on. Hope you\u2019ll tune into Canada Tonight weeknights at 8pmET\/5PT on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBCNews<\/a> starting January 11th \ud83d\ude0a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/67PcGyIh5T\">pic.twitter.com\/67PcGyIh5T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ginella Massa (@GinellaMassa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GinellaMassa\/status\/1346186976429568004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Groundbreaking television journalist and anchor Ginella Massa is making history as the first hijab-wearing host of a national television news program in Canada. The award-winning journalist&#8217;s new CBC show Canada Tonight with Ginella Massa begins on January 11. In a statement released when the announcement was made, Massa shared her excitement. \u201cIt\u2019s a dream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20189,21418],"tags":[27704,27705,27706],"class_list":["post-43996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-living-2","tag-ginella-massa","tag-ginella-massa-cbc","tag-ginella-massa-journalist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43998,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996\/revisions\/43998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}