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Maria Tobin
March 2023: Maria Tobin is no longer with CTV Atlantic.
Maria Tobin is a Halifax based web writer with CTV Atlantic.
Born and raised in Dartmouth, Maria decided to turn her passion for storytelling into a career. She attended the NSCC’s Ivany Campus, where she earned a Radio Television Journalism diploma.
After interning with Global News Halifax, Maria was hired as a teleprompter operator at CTV Atlantic in Halifax in March 2021. She has since taken on the additional roles of production assistant and web writer.
Maria was the recipient of the Atlantic Journalism Awards Best Student Journalism Award and the CWA/SCA Canada Student Award of Excellence
Maria is fluent in both English and French.
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