PAULA TODD is an investigative journalist, lawyer and author of EXTREME MEAN: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online, which reveals the real reasons adults, youth and kids torment, harass, stalk and sexually extort online, along with the solutions. Extreme Mean, a national bestseller, was shortlisted for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction. She became the first journalist in Canada to break news in an e-book with Finding Karla: How I Tracked Down An Elusive Child Serial Killer and Discovered a Mother of Three.
She spent more than a decade as a full-time reporter with the Toronto Star, and another decade-plus hosting news programs at CTV and TVO. A frequent speaker and educator, she is a broadcast and digital media professor, and the Chair of Digital Issues for Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. She holds degrees in literature and law from York University and Osgoode Hall Law School.
