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Carol Off is a Canadian television and radio journalist, associated with CBC Television and CBC Radio. She has been a host of CBC Radio's ''As It Happens'' since 2006.〔(CBC journalist Carol Off to host 'As It Happens' ). CBC News, May 18, 2006.〕 Previously a documentary reporter for ''The National'', Off also hosted the political debate series ''counterSpin'' on CBC Newsworld. She is the vice-president of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. She was awarded ACTRA's John Drainie Award, for distinguished contributions to Canadian broadcasting, in 2008.〔(CBC journalist Carol Off wins broadcasting award ). CBC News, July 31, 2008.〕 Off has also written several books on the Canadian military, including ''The Lion, the Fox, and the Eagle'' (2000) and ''The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: the Story of Canada's Secret War'' (2005, ISBN 0-679-31294-3). In 2006, she released a book, ''Bitter Chocolate'', about the corruption and human rights abuses associated with the cocoa industry. She claimed that French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer, who was kidnapped in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire in 2004, had been murdered for exposing Ivorian government corruption in connection with cocoa. Off grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She got her start in journalism as a staff writer for ''The Gazette'', the student newspaper at The University of Western Ontario. She graduated with a B.A. degree from Western in 1981. ==Personal life== Off married fellow CBC broadcaster Linden MacIntyre in 2000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carol Off」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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