Kathy Tomlinson

CBC-TV Vancouver

Kathy Tomlinson started her journalism career in television reporting in 1989, at CTV's Edmonton station CFRN. In the early 1990s, she was the Alberta Legislative Reporter for ITV and its sister station in Calgary. For the next 10 years, Tomlinson worked as a reporter for the CBC in Alberta and in British Columbia. During her tenure at the CBC, Tomlinson's stories helped initiate investigations, change laws and bring down dubious companies. She was also instrumental in having a wrongly convicted woman released from federal prison.

After joining CTV as national reporter in Vancouver, Tomlinson moved to Washington, D.C. in 2002 where she reported on the Bush administration and the war in Iraq for CTV's national news. Tomlinson then became CTV's "Whistleblower," using her passion for investigative reporting to lead this news segment devoted to exposing wrongdoing, injustice, incompetence and waste inside and outside the government.

Tomlinson has won several awards for investigative reporting including three Jack Webster Awards for Best Reporting of the Year and several Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) national and regional awards.

She is currently host of CBC Vancouver's investigative news segment "Go Public"-a weekly segment featuring investigative stories on CBC TV, radio and the web. Go Public stories come from people who write in story ideas through the web. It seeks to shed light on untold stories that are of public interest and hold those responsible accountable.