Saroja Coelho

Saroja Coelho
NationalityCanadian
Occupationradio personality
Known forMornings

Saroja Coelho is a Canadian journalist and radio personality, currently the weekend host of Mornings on CBC Music,[1] the call-in show Just Asking on CBC Radio One,[2] and the CBC Radio Overnight block.[citation needed]

Originally from Toronto, Ontario, Coelho was a foreign correspondent, reporting from Asia and Eastern Europe for CBC, BBC, NPR, Deutsche Welle and National Geographic.[3] In 2012, she became the host of Living Planet on Deutsche Welle, before returning to Canada to host Breakaway, the local afternoon program for CBC Radio One's Quebec Community Network in 2016.[4] She returned to Toronto in 2018, where she was a regular guest host of Here and Now during Gill Deacon's health leave, and became host of Mornings after Raina Douris left the program in 2019.[5]

Just Asking, a weekly call-in show on lifestyle topics such as health, careers and investment, debuted on CBC Radio One in February 2024 on Saturday afternoons.[2] First introduced as a one-hour show, it was later expanded to two hours to align with the older call-in show, Cross Country Checkup, in the equivalent timeslot on Sundays.

Coelho studied biology and political science at the University of Toronto,[6] and was a coordinator of Women Active, Vocal, Effective and Strong, a leadership program for young girls, in the early 2000s.[7]

  1. ^ "Revolving Door". Broadcast Dialogue, September 12, 2024.
  2. ^ a b Connie Thiessen, "CBC Radio introducing new live Saturday afternoon call-in show". Broadcast Dialogue, February 22, 2024.
  3. ^ Gordon Lambie, "Saroja Coelho settling in as new host of Breakaway". Sherbrooke Record September 22, 2016.
  4. ^ Steve Faguy, "Saroja Coelho is new host of CBC Quebec's Breakaway radio show". Montreal Gazette, September 22, 2016.
  5. ^ "Revolving door". Broadcast Dialogue, August 16, 2018.
  6. ^ Donna Nebenzahl, "Camp lets girls make waves: Aims to empower". Montreal Gazette, July 10, 2000.
  7. ^ "Making some WAVES: Help for young women". Toronto Star, July 3, 2001.