Piya Chattopadhyay () is a Canadian journalist, currently host of The Sunday Magazine on CBC Radio One.
She is known for her work on CBC Radio,CBC’s Piya Chattopadhyay: ‘doing what I want to do’, by Constance Scrafield; at the Orangeville Citizen; published October 31, 2013; retrieved May 1, 2014Crowd greets CBC staff as bureau goes on air, by Jason Hewlett; at the Kamloops Daily News; published October 9, 2012; retrieved May 1, 2014Senate explores future financial landscape, by Paul Mayne, in Western News (University of Western Ontario); published November 21, 2013; retrieved May 1, 2014; "well-known radio and television personality, Piya Chattopadhyay, who is often a host on both CBC radio and TVO (...)" as well as on Fox News Radio,The adventure continues..., by Denise Garrado; in the Bradford Times; published March 31, 2011; retrieved May 1, 2014 and TVOntario.TVO welcomes Piya Chattopadhyay to The Agenda with Steve Paikin at TVOntario; published April 20, 2011, retrieved May 1, 2014 Prior to launching The Sunday Magazine in 2020, she was the host of Out in the Open and had worked in broadcasting for more than 20 years, 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, and previously as Fox News Radio's Middle East correspondent.
In 2010 she won the Gabriel Award for Do No Harm, her documentary about Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish.Arrival Lounge, in E-Desi News (page 31); published July 2011; retrieved May 1, 2014
Her weekly CBC Radio series Out in the Open debuted on May 28, 2016, and ran until June 28, 2020."CBC Radio to debut Out in the Open, The Candy Palmater Show". CBC News, May 16, 2016.
On June 8, 2020, it was announced that Chattopadhyay would be succeeding Michael Enright as host of CBC Radio's three-hour Sunday morning block of in-depth interviews and documentaries which was called Sunday Edition under Enright's tenure. The new programme, The Sunday Magazine, premiered on September 13, 2020.
Personal life Chattopadhyay's parents immigrated to Canada from Kolkata, India, in 1967, and she was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is married to fellow journalist Peter Armstrong, whom she met while both were working for the CBC,Office romance is good for business, by Jasmine Budak, in Canadian Business; published May 7, 2012; retrieved May 1, 2014 and has a daughter and identical twin sons.
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