Rene Pellerin

Ren?e Pellerin is a former television and radio producer with CBC. For many years, she was a documentary producer for Marketplace , specializing in investigative health stories. She was also a producer at the Fifth Estate , consultant to the CBC Newsworld program Health Matters , executive producer of a documentary unit at CBC Newsworld, and a producer at Morningside and Sunday Morning . Before she left CBC, she was the head of the Health Content Unit for CBC News, leading a team of health...See more

Ren?e Pellerin is a former television and radio producer with CBC. For many years, she was a documentary producer for Marketplace , specializing in investigative health stories. She was also a producer at the Fifth Estate , consultant to the CBC Newsworld program Health Matters , executive producer of a documentary unit at CBC Newsworld, and a producer at Morningside and Sunday Morning . Before she left CBC, she was the head of the Health Content Unit for CBC News, leading a team of health journalists in radio, TV, and online. Pellerin has won several national and international awards for her work, including a Michener Citation of Merit for public service in journalism. She has also taught journalism at the National University of Rwanda in Butare and at Ryerson University in Toronto, and has held the visiting chair in journalism at the University of Regina. She holds degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and University of King's College in Halifax. She now lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake. See less