Farah Nasser is a Canadian journalist. In May 2015, she was named by Shaw Media as the co-anchor of Global Toronto's 5:30pm and 6pm newscast, alongside Alan Carter.[1] Previous to this role, she was a reporter and anchor with CablePulse24 in Toronto in 2010.
She previously anchored Citytv Toronto's CityNews weekend editions at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. with Roger Petersen from 2007 until she was laid off on January 19, 2010. CITY-TV announced cuts to several news programs and staff. The weekend news was cancelled, and Nasser was part of a company-wide layoff that affected 6% of CITY's staff, and several on-air presenters.[2]
In June 2022, Global News announced that Nasser would be moving from Global Toronto to join Global National, as weekend anchor.[3]
In June 2024, Nasser announced on Global National she is moving on from the network.[4][5]
Nasser was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada,[6] and moved to Toronto to work as a journalist at Newstalk 1010 (1999-2003), Toronto 1 (2003-2005) before joining /A\ Channel News in Barrie (2005-2007).[7]
