Rita Trichur is an award-winning journalist, Financial Services Editor for The Globe and Mail and a Canadian business columnist for the Report on Business Magazine. As a reporter for the The Wall Street Journal in its Canada bureau, covered domestic banks and insurance companies from Toronto, and wrote a variety of other stories about Canada for the U.S. newspaper.
Prior to WSJ, Trichur spent more than three years at the Globe, initially working as a general assignment reporter in the Report on Business before covering the telecom beat. Rita has also covered financial services and economics for the Toronto Star, and has held various roles at the Canadian Press and the Ottawa Sun. She has a Bachelor of Journalism and Political Science and a M.A. in Canadian Studies – both from Carleton University in Ottawa.