With a career in journalism spanning more than 25 years, Donna Sound, an Indigenous Circle reporter for CTV NATIONAL NEWS, regularly contributes to the team’s newsgathering efforts, not only toward Indigenous stories, but bringing strong, investigative, exclusive news features. She is the first Indigenous person in the history of CTV to anchor nationally.
An award-winning journalist, Sound began her career as an editorial assistant and associate producer at CBC News in Toronto, before moving to the front of the camera in 2002 as a correspondent for the Aboriginal People’s Television Network, APTN, in Winnipeg. She went on to become producer and sole anchor for two daily national newscasts for APTN. Sound has covered many protests on the front line, including the G20 and Caledonia. She has interviewed Prime Ministers, our current Governor General, Mary Simon, heads of state, Lieutenant Governors, OSCAR® winners, music icons, and CEOs.
Ms. Sound has reported on, and been invited to, the private audience of the historic Papal apology to Indigenous Survivors of residential schools at the Vatican in Rome. She is the daughter and is family to residential school survivors.
Sound has guest co-hosted for Canada’s #1 talk show: “The Social.”
She is a speaker and moderator at Collision Conference, one of the world’s biggest technology conferences. Sound was invited to Lisbon Portugal and Vancouver for Web Summit; the biggest technology conference in the world, where she took to many stages speaking and moderating on issues of great significance.
She sits as a Director, Board of Director for ‘2 The Nations,’ a humanitarian charity helping people around the world; most recently in Ukraine. Sound is the newest Board of Director for Peaceful Hearts Foundation. This charity assists individuals with disabilities offering them a safe space to be independent, among other things.
Donna also sat as Director, Board of Directors, for True North Aid, an organization providing assistance to people in Canada’s remote northern indigenous communities. She was also a board member for Native Child and Family Services of Toronto.
A member of Sagamok Anishnawbek in Ontario, Sound feels a sense of pride in breaking down barriers for First Nations and Indigenous peoples and brings a distinct perspective to the newsroom, giving a voice to those underrepresented in Canadian media.
Throughout her childhood, Sound’s dream was to be a media journalist, and views responsible journalism as having “the best front seat to the world.” A graduate of Humber College’s Journalism – Print and Broadcast program, she dedicates herself by regularly educating through speaking engagements for First Nations communities and others in classrooms for high school and university students. Sound also contributes through her emcee work, bringing visibility to fundraising and community efforts.
Donna’s passion for her Ojibway culture gives her pause for reflection, while continually striving to engage with her community, working towards revitalizing her Ojibway language, and strengthening the voices of indigenous communities to tell our stories, with honesty and truth.
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