Ginella Massa

Ginella Massa
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Born (1987-01-29) January 29, 1987 (age 37)
Panama
NationalityCanadian
OccupationJournalist
Websitewww.ginellamassa.com

Ginella Massa (born January 29, 1987)[1][2] is a Canadian television journalist. An Afro-Latina Muslim[3] reporter and anchor, she became Canada's first hijab-wearing television reporter in 2015, and the first news anchor in hijab when she anchored the 11 p.m. newscast for CityNews on CITY-DT in Toronto, Ontario, on November 17, 2016.[4]

  1. ^ "Reporter becomes Canada's first hijab-clad news anchor". The Guardian. November 26, 2016. Massa, 29...
  2. ^ Ginella Massa [@Ginella_M] (January 29, 2021). "Jan 29th is my birthday. It's been hard to celebrate lately because it's also the day Canada saw it's [sic] worst mass shooting. I remember coming home from celebrating with friends and turning on the TV to hear a gunman had opened fire in a Quebec mosque. I felt sick" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ Nouser, Mariam (February 2018). "Meet the Four Muslim Women That Have Inspired My Soul". Retrieved January 24, 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.
  4. ^ "Reporter becomes Canada's first hijab-clad news anchor". Hindustan Times. November 26, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2016.