Carol Off

Carol Off is an award-winning Canadian journalist, commentator, and author associated with CBC Television and CBC Radio.

Career
Off has been a host of CBC Radio One's As It Happens since 2006. Previously a documentary reporter for The National, where she covered international affairs, Off also hosted the political debate series counterSpin on CBC Newsworld.

She served on the board of directors of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression from 2001 to 2007.

Off has been honoured for her journalism with a Gemini (2002), a  John Drainie Award for Distinguished Contributions to Canadian Broadcasting (2008), and a Gabriel Award (2016)

Off has also written books on the Canadian military, including The Lion, the Fox, and the Eagle (2000) and The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: the Story of Canada's Secret War (2005, ). 

In 2006, she released Bitter Chocolate, a book about the corruption and human rights abuses associated with the cocoa industry.  She wrote that French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer, who was kidnapped in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire in 2004, had been murdered for exposing Ivorian government corruption in connection with cocoa.

Her latest book, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter’s Journey into the Lives of Others (2017), won the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the 2018 Ontario Historical Society Huguenot Society of Canada Award. 

Off grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She got her start in journalism as a staff writer for The Gazette, the student newspaper at The University of Western Ontario. She graduated with a B.A. degree from Western in 1981.

Off has received honorary degrees from both Western University and the Royal Military College of Canada.

Personal life
Off married fellow CBC broadcaster and former host of the  Fifth Estate Linden MacIntyre in 2000.

References

External links
 Carol Off biography at CBC Radio
 Carol Off - On Hosting As It Happens, The Importance of Public Space & Her Beginnings in Journalism at Broadcasting Canada, July 20, 2013

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