Laura Lynch

Laura Lynch is a Canadian television and radio journalist for CBC News, who hosts CBC Radio’s weekly show What on Earth. Previously, she was a frequent guest host of CBC Radio's daily morning news program The Current.

After studying law at the University of Victoria and journalism at Carleton University, she began her career with the CBC as a legal affairs reporter covering stories in the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court of Canada. She won the Law Society of British Columbia's award for Excellence in Legal Journalism, and was nominated for a Jack Webster Award, for her reporting on the Supreme Court case R v O'Connor. She received the Martin Wise Goodman Nieman Fellowship the same year, and spent a year studying human rights at Harvard University.