Piya Chattopadhyay


Piya Chattopadhyay is a Canadian journalist known for her work on CBC Radio, as well as on Fox News Radio, and TVOntario. She is known primarily as a fill-in anchor and host on TVOntario and the CBC's radio and television networks, including on The Agenda, The Current, Q, The World at Six and Cross-Country Checkup.
In 2010 she won the Gabriel Award for Do No Harm, her documentary about Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish.
Her own weekly CBC Radio series Out in the Open debuted on May 28, 2016.
On June 8, 2020, it was announced that
Chattopadhyay will be succeeding Michael Enright as host of CBC Radio's three-hour Sunday morning block of in-depth interviews and documentaries beginning September 6, 2020. The name of the new programme, which will succeed Enright's Sunday Edition, has not yet been announced.

Personal life

Chattopadhyay's parents emigrated to Canada from Kolkata, India in 1967, and she was born in Saskatoon. She is married to fellow journalist Peter Armstrong, whom she met while both were working for the CBC.