Tina Srebotnjakis aCanadianradio and television journalist.
Background
editShe was born inSloveniaand moved to Canada with her parents as a child, growing up inMississauga,Ontario.She was educated at theUniversity of Toronto,studyingEnglishandFrench,and atCarleton University,studyingjournalism.
Srebotnjak is married to CBC journalistBrian Stewart.[1]
Career in radio
editShe joined theCanadian Broadcasting Corporationas a researcher in 1976, and covered the1980 Quebec referendumfor the network. She subsequently returned toTorontoto work as a studio director forMorningside.[2]
Career in television
editSrebotnjak leftCBC Radioand moved over toCBC Television,joiningMiddayas an entertainment reporter and later succeedingValerie Pringleas cohost of the program in 1992.
WhenMiddayended its run in 2000,[3]Srebotnjak moved toTVOntario,where she has hosted cultural programming including the (now-defunct) book seriesImprint.[4][5]
Her short story "Becoming Canadian" was published in the bookThe First Man in My Life: Daughters Write About Their Fathersby Sandra Martin.[6]
She worked in the communications and marketing department of theToronto Public Library,[7]from 2007 to 2014.[8]
References
edit- ^"Barbara's Choice".Toronto Star,July 14, 2007.
- ^R. B. Fleming,Peter Gzowski: A Biography.Dundurn Press,2012.
- ^Zerbisias, Antonia (Feb 11, 2000)."173 Jobs go as CBC's axe falls yet again; Television fixture Midday set to be chopped in June".Toronto Star.Archived fromthe originalon January 31, 2013.Retrieved2011-04-25.
- ^"Stuntman parachutes to his death".Toronto Star.July 3, 2000. Archived fromthe originalon November 6, 2012.Retrieved2011-04-27.
- ^Brioux, Bill (March 10, 2005)."Layoffs hit TVOntario".CANOE.Archived from the original on July 9, 2012.Retrieved2011-04-27.
Up to 10 Canadian Media Guild positions are being eliminated, including Imprint host Tina Srebotnjak.
{{cite news}}:CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^"Daughters express pain, love"Archived2012-11-10 at theWayback Machine.The Gazette,June 16, 2007.
- ^"Interview with Tina Srebotnjak – Following Her Passion From CBC, to TVO, to Toronto Public Library"Archived2014-11-12 at theWayback Machine.Canada Arts Connect,February 25, 2011.
- ^https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tina-srebotnjak-69b35224[self-published source]