Carolyn MacKenzie

Carolyn MacKenzie is an awarding journalist who spent more than a decade covering some of the biggest stories in the GTA and across Canada. She was born and raised in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). She received a Bachelor of Journalism Honour degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She began her journalism career hosting Toronto Living on Roger's Television. She accepted a position with ATV/CTV as a Video Journalist in Sydney, Nova Scotia. She not only reported on issues affecting Cape Breton Island, but shot and edited footage as well. Carolyn's next move was to Barrie, Ontario, where she reported and anchored at the New VR helping the radio station win a number of Radio & News Directors of Canada Awards (RTNDA) for "Best Newscast" for a small/medium market. In 2005, she left for Toronto to join the Global News team. In 2006, Carolyn won the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for "Best Investigated Journalist" for her series on transit inaccessibility. She also won "Best Spot News Story" from York Regional Police for her coverage of a home invasion in Vaughan. Other career highlights include covering the Air Canada Crash, the Queen Jubilee Visit, and helping Global Toronto win an RTNDA for "Best Continuing Coverage" on the arrests of the Toronto Terror Suspects. She is married to Chris, a Toronto Firefighter. In the Spring of 2008, she gave birth to her first child, a baby girl.