Broadcast journalist and author Carol Off is just releasing her latest book, At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage. She recently completed a sixteen year run as the co-host of the multi-award winning radio program, As It Happens. Over her career, she has traveled extensively, covering events for the CBC.

As a radio correspondent, she reported on politics in Ottawa and Quebec. As a television journalist, she covered the Balkan wars, the 9/11 attack, the elections of Vladimir Putin as well as revolutions, wars and uprisings in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Her best selling books about Canada’s role in the world include The Lion, TheFox, and the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Since that book came out in 2000, she’s published All We Leave Behind: A Reporter’s Journey into the Lives of Others, winner of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet; The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: The Story of Canada’s Secret War; and the Lion, the Fox and the Eagle: Generals and Justice in Rwanda and Yugoslavia.

Carol has won a Gemini; two gold medals from the New York Festival of Television; a Gabriel Award; a Monte Carlo Festival Award and ACTRA’s John Drainie Award for Distinguished Contribution to Canadian Broadcasting, an RTNDA Lifetime Achievement Award, among many other honours.