Ginella Massa
Ginella Massa (born January 29, 1987) is a Canadian television journalist. An Afro-Latina Muslim reporter and anchor, she became Canada's first hijab-wearing television reporter in 2015, and the first news anchor in hijab when she anchored the 11 p.m. newscast for "CityNews" on CITY-DT in Toronto, Ontario on November 17, 2016. An honors graduate of York University and Seneca College, she has worked both behind-the-scenes and on-air for local and national Canadian news outlets since 2010, including CTV News, CFRB and Rogers Television, and has been published in "The Globe and  Mail" and the "National Post". Massa married her husband in 2018 in Toronto. In 2020, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced that Massa will join the network as host of a prime time show on CBC News Network and a special correspondent for "The National". Her show, "Canada Tonight", premiered on January 11, 2021 on CBC News Network.