Piya Chattopadhyay | |
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Born |
Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada |
Spouse | Peter Armstrong |
Career | |
Show |
The Sunday Magazine (since 2020), Out in the Open (2016–2020) |
Network | CBC Radio One |
Piya Chattopadhyay ( /ˈpiːə ˌtʃætəˈpædaɪ/) is a Canadian journalist, currently host of The Sunday Magazine on CBC Radio One.
She is known for her work on CBC Radio, [1] [2] [3] as well as on Fox News Radio, [4] and TVOntario. [5] Prior to launching The Sunday Magazine in 2020, she was the host of Out in the Open and had worked in broadcasting for more than 20 years, as a fill-in anchor and host on TVOntario and the CBC's radio and television networks, including on The Agenda, The Current, Q, The World at Six and Cross-Country Checkup, and previously as Fox News Radio's Middle East correspondent. [6]
In 2010 she won the Gabriel Award for Do No Harm, her documentary about Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish. [7]
Her weekly CBC Radio series Out in the Open debuted on May 28, 2016, and ran until June 28, 2020. [8]
On June 8, 2020, it was announced that Chattopadhyay would be succeeding Michael Enright as host of CBC Radio's three-hour Sunday morning block of in-depth interviews and documentaries which was called Sunday Edition under Enright's tenure. [9] The new programme, The Sunday Magazine, premiered on September 13, 2020. [6]
Chattopadhyay's parents emigrated to Canada from Kolkata, India in 1967, [7] and she was born in Saskatoon. [1] She is married to fellow journalist Peter Armstrong, whom she met while both were working for the CBC. [10]