Piya Chattopadhyay (/ˈpiːə ˌtʃætəˈpædaɪ/) is a Canadian journalist, currently host of The Sunday Magazine on CBC Radio One.

She is known for her work on CBC Radio,^[1][2][3] as well as on Fox News Radio,^[4] and TVOntario.^[5] 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.^[6]

In 2010 she won the Gabriel Award for Do No Harm, her documentary about Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish.^[7]

Her weekly CBC Radio series Out in the Open debuted on May 28, 2016, and ran until June 28, 2020.^[8]

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.^[9] The new programme, The Sunday Magazine, premiered on September 13, 2020.^[6]

Personal life

Chattopadhyay's parents immigrated to Canada from Kolkata, India, in 1967,^[7] and she was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.^[1][10] She is married to fellow journalist Peter Armstrong, whom she met while both were working for the CBC,^[11] and has a daughter and identical twin sons.^[10]

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