Paula Todd

Paula Todd
Born	Hamilton, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Bachelor of Arts (York University) LL.B. (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Occupation	Multimedia Journalist & Editor, Digital Analyst, Author, Lawyer

Paula Todd is a Canadian journalist, investigative author, broadcaster, and lawyer. She is a professor of broadcast journalism and digital media at Seneca College, and is a frequent speaker on cyberabuse, Internet culture, writing, reporting, literacy and freedom of the press.

Todd sat on the Board of Directors of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and chaired its Digital Issues Committee. In 2012, she travelled with Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams to Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico as a journalist embedded with the Nobel Women's Initiative's investigation into escalating attacks on women and human rights defenders.

In 2012, she published an eBook about Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka.

She has also published several other books, including Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online in 2014. The book was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for non-fiction.

Todd earned her Bachelor of Arts in English literature from York University. She served as co-editor of the University's community newspaper Excalibur, where she led a successful campaign to secure independent funding for the student press. She graduated from York University with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1982, and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1988. She was called to the Bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1990.

Soon after graduating in 1982, she was hired by the Toronto Star, where she worked as a reporter, feature writer, and political correspondent. During her last four years at the Toronto Star, she also served as an editorial writer and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board.

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