Laura Lynch is a Canadian television and radio journalist for

CBC News CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC ...

, who hosts CBC Radio’s weekly show '' What on Earth''. Previously, she was a frequent guest host of CBC Radio's daily morning news program '' The Current''."Matt Galloway set to take over as host of CBC Radio’s The Current". ''

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'', October 25, 2019. After studying law at the University of Victoria and journalism at Carleton University, she began her career with the CBC as a legal affairs reporter covering stories in the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court of Canada.Jennifer Quinn, "CBC reporter wins fellowship; Goodman prize pays for a year at Harvard". ''

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'', May 25, 1999. She won the Law Society of British Columbia's award for Excellence in Legal Journalism, and was nominated for a Jack Webster Award, for her reporting on the Supreme Court case '' R v O'Connor''."3 Sun reporters in finals for Webster awards". '' Vancouver Sun'', September 1, 1999. She received the Martin Wise Goodman Nieman Fellowship the same year, and spent a year studying

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Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. She was subsequently a foreign correspondent based in Washington, D.C., and London, as well as travelling to report from various international locations including

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, Israel,

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, and

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, before returning to Canada as a national affairs reporter in

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. In addition to her appearances as a guest host of ''The Current'', she was the program's regular interim host in 2019, between the retirement of Anna Maria Tremonti and the debut of new host Matt Galloway in January 2020. She is currently the host of ''What on Earth'', a weekly CBC Radio show on environmental issues.

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