Steve Paikin
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Steve Paikin is a journalist, film producer, author and political talk show host best known for his hosting of TV Ontario's current events oriented shows Studio 2 and Diplomatic Immunity.
Paikin is a native of Hamilton, Ontario and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University.
Over the years, Paikin's roles within Canadian political commentary have been diverse and plentiful. During his seven years at CBC Television, he held a variety of roles including anchor of CBC at Six, Queen’s Park correspondent, and host of a daily news and current affairs program on Newsworld. He also held reporting jobs in private radio and print media, including The Hamilton Spectator and CHFI Radio in Toronto.
In 1992 Paikin began work at TV Ontario, hosting the political series Between the Lines and the Queen’s Park magazine Fourth Reading until 1994. In that year, Paikin began co-hosting duties (with Mary Hynes, and now Paula Todd) on the newly incepted Studio 2, a political commentary show. In 1998 he began hosting Diplomatic Immunity, a foreign affairs commentary show.
Aside from his hosting and jouralistic endeavours, Paikin has produced a number of feature length documentaries: Return to the Warsaw Ghetto, A Main Street Man, Balkan Madness, Teachers, Tories, and Turmoil, and Chairman of the Board: The Life and Death of John Robarts. For 1993's Return to the Warsaw Ghetto, Paikin won the Silver Screen Award at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, as well as receiving awards at the Yorkton Film Festival in Saskatchewan and at China’s Shanghai Film Festival.
To date Paikin has written two books of political commentary: The Life: The Seductive Call of Politics (ISBN 0670892238) and The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life (ISBN 0670043281).
External links
- TV Ontario Biography (http://www.tvontario.org/mediakit/hostbios/stevebio.html)
- stevepaikin.com Biography (http://www.stevepaikin.com/contact.html)
- Audio interview with Steve Paikin: Monday, 30 May 2005 (http://www.thecommentary.ca/ontheline/20050530a.html)