Rita Celli (born 1969 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian radio journalist,[1] who was the host of Ontario Today on CBC Radio One's stations in Ontario from 2006 to 2023.[2]
Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, she graduated from Carleton University’s journalism program in 1991.[3] Prior to Ontario Today, she held a number of positions at CBC on both radio and television, including anchor of CBOT-DT's supper-hour newscast.[4]
In 2000, she and a team of CBC journalists won an investigative award from the Canadian Association of Journalists.[5] In 2014, Celli was awarded the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Journalism.[6]