Ginella Massa

Ginella Massa (born January 29, 1987) is a Canadian television journalist.[1] An Afro-Latina Muslim[2] reporter and anchor for CityNews on CITY-DT in Toronto, Ontario, she is most noted for becoming Canada's first hijab-wearing television reporter in 2015, and the first news anchor in hijab when she anchored the CityNews' 11 p.m. newscast on November 17, 2016.[3]

Ginella Massa
BornJanuary 29, 1987
Panama
NationalityCanadian
OrganizationCityNews Toronto
Websitewww.ginellamassa.net

An honors graduate of York University and Seneca College, she has worked both behind-the-scenes and on-air for local and national Canadian news outlets since 2010, including CTV News, CFRB and Rogers Television, and has been published in The Globe and Mail and the National Post.

Massa married her now husband on May 11, 2018 in Toronto.[4][5] In 2019, she had a pancreaticoduodenectomy to remove a mass from her pancreas.[6]

References
  1. "Reporter becomes Canada's first hijab-clad news anchor". The Guardian. November 26, 2016.
  2. Nouser, Mariam (February 2018). "Meet the Four Muslim Women That Have Inspired My Soul". Retrieved 24 January 2019. Ginella is an Afro-Latina Muslim, and works as a reporter for CityNews, a local news channel in Toronto. She was born to a Christian family in Panama City, and became Muslim early on as a child when her mother converted to Islam.
  3. "Reporter becomes Canada's first hijab-clad news anchor". Hindustan Times. November 26, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
  4. Massa, Ginella (2018-05-12). "Oh hi, I got married last night and now I'm going on my honeymoon so I'll see you on the news in 2 weeks pic.twitter.com/VLklvrlc60". @ginella_m. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  5. "I Met My Husband The Love is Blind Way. Sort Of". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  6. "My Story Of Unintentional Weight Loss | Chatelaine". www.chatelaine.com. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
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