Wendy Mesley

Journalism ’90

Renowned for her uncompromising interviewing style, Wendy Mesley is among the most recognized personalities in Canadian broadcasting. She has dedicated her distinguished broadcasting career to the CBC, beginning as a local news reporter, a parliamentary correspondent for The National, and a frequent contributor to Sunday Report, a program she later anchored. Ms. Mesley also helped create, and hosted, the Gemini Award-winning Undercurrents, which examined the media and marketing world. More recently, she hosted the popular program Test the Nation, a series of interactive quiz shows that attracted 1.5 million viewers, and has helmed the award-winning investigative consumer program Marketplace. Ms. Mesley was honoured with three Gemini Awards for Best Host in a News or Talk Program or Series.