Farah Nasser
Canadian journalist
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, 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).
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.
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.
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