Paula Todd

Paula Todd is a Canadian multimedia journalist, investigative author, broadcaster, and lawyer. She is a professor of broadcast journalism and digital media at Seneca College, and is a frequent speaker on cyberabuse, Internet culture, writing, reporting, literacy and freedom of the press. Todd sat on the Board of Directors of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and chaired its Digital Issues Committee. In 2012, she travelled with Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams to Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico as a journalist embedded with the Nobel Women's Initiative's investigation into escalating attacks on women and human rights defenders.In 2012, she published an eBook about Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka. She has also published several other books, including Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online in 2014, and Extreme Mean: Ending Cyberabuse at School, Work & Home in 2015. The book was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for non-fiction.