Ann Medina

Ann Medina

Emmy Award-Winning Journalist

Ann Medina's wide-ranging experience and incisive coverage of foreign affairs have made her one of Canada's most highly respected and well-known journalists. Audiences respond enthusiastically to Medina's insights and sometimes rib-tickling analyses of some of the issues of the day. A self-described computer "nut", she also brings humour and insight to charting a course through the chaos of change. Medina combines an intensely personal view, with a world-view, based upon being there.


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Ann Medina’s wide-ranging experience and incisive coverage of foreign affairs have made her one of Canada’s most highly respected and well-known journalists. She began her television career in Chicago, later becoming a Network Producer for NBC News and then a Network Correspondent and Producer for ABC News. She moved to Canada in 1975 to marry a Canadian, and since then, her work has appeared regularly on CBC in Canada, BBC in England, and PBS’ MacNeil-Lehrer Report in the US. Her programs have won numerous awards in Canada and in the United States, including the prestigious Emmy Award.

Currently, Ms. Medina hosts History Television's History on Film, and she has also moved into the broader area of communications and technology. She has been honoured with five Honorary Degrees including The University of Toronto. She’s a YWCA Women of Distinction, and, in 2008, was named to the ‘Top 100 Most Powerful Women’ in Canada.

Highly respected in the broadcasting profession, audiences respond enthusiastically to Medina’s insights and sometimes rib-tickling analyses of some of the issues of the day. A self-described computer “nut”, she brings humour and insight to charting a course through the chaos of change. Medina combines an intensely personal view, with a world view, based upon being there.

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  • Change

  • Technology

  • We were delighted to have you talk to us and share your vision of exploration. It was thought provoking, which is always welcome, but most of all we believed that we had come to know something of you. One member told me later that she wished you could have spoken for another hour. Thank you for coming to North Bay. We enjoyed you immensely and hope that there maybe another opportunity to have you return. It was a pleasure to meet you.

    North Bay & District Canadian Club
  • Having the privilege of watching you handle yet another important conference segment of the IWF - navigating us through the confines and time-limits of a conference segment, translators, heavy accents, and political sensitivities - I understood all over again what it is in your art and form that makes you the exception and not the rule.  Some would point to your humor and personality.  I too admire their force.  But, it's that warmth, sense of mischief and fun, people-connecting skills coupled with your substance and grit that makes all the difference.  You brought that to the stage in Seattle for 450 fans from around the world, and there is no way to thank you for it.

    International Womens Forum, Hong Kong Leadership Conference
  • I wanted to especially thank you for kicking our ceremony off in such a dynamite way on Thursday.  I am truly impressed with your magnetism and flair on stage.  Of course you gave everyone lots to think about but you did it in such an entertaining way that I couldn't have imagined the event without you.

    Shad International
  • Seriously, Ann, in my 20 years in public policy I can't remember a conference where what transpired on the podium aligned SO WELL with the substance and the spirit of what we set out to do.  Thank you for challenging the delegates - AND ME - to really get to the heart of something that is usually regarded as inconsequential and downright boring by policy wonks, practitioners and politicians alike.  It was a privilege to work with you.

    Accelerating Primary Care Conference, Edmonton
  • You did a magnificent job.  Your questions were probing and incredibly well-informed. They pushed the panelists to be as concrete as possible.  Everyone I spoke with was raving about your work.  So thank you!


    Trudeau Foundation
  • I didn't have an opportunity to say this to you in person following Tuesday's event - but you were fantastic!  Thank you so much for
    agreeing to moderate and taking the job so seriously.  From an onlookers perspective - it was what I had hoped for and more in terms of being a real discussion among the panelists with an opportunity for the audience to have a lot of input as well. Your terrific sense of humour was an additional bonus.

    University of Toronto
  • Congrats on a great speech at the Cdn Food Processors Assn conference in Niagara Falls.  People were very impressed by your speech and your "down to earth" demeanour.

    Canadian Food Processors Association