Steve Paikin has been co-host of TVO's Studio 2 since the program's inception in 1994. Steve also hosts TVO's weekly foreign affairs series, Diplomatic Immunity with Steve Paikin, which debuted in 1998.

Besides his hosting duties, Steve has also produced several documentaries for TVO. Internationally, his 1993 effort, Return to The Warsaw Ghetto, won the Silver Screen Award at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival as well as awards at Canada's Yorkton Film Festival and China's Shanghai Film Festival. He also went to Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and presented Balkan Madness in 1992.

Here at home, in 1996 Paikin co-produced A Main Street Man which chronicled the life of former Ontario premier William Davis. The Mike Harris government's controversial education reform Bill 160 was the subject of Teachers, Tories, and Turmoil in 1997. And Chairman of the Board: The Life and Death of John Robarts aired in 2001, on the occasion of the former Ontario premier's 40th anniversary of taking power.

His latest book, published in March, 2005, analyses the impact of former Ontario Premier John Robarts on the province. It's called, Public Triumph, Private Tragedy: The Double Life of John P. Robarts. In 2001, Paikin wrote his first book, The Life: The Seductive Call of Politics for Penguin Canada. In 2003, he followed up with his second book, The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life.

Before coming to TVOntario, Paikin had been at CBC Television for seven years in a wide variety of anchoring and reporting roles: as anchor of CBC at Six, CBC's Queen's Park correspondent, and host of a daily news and current affairs program on Newsworld. Paikin has also held reporting jobs in private radio and print media, including the Hamilton Spectator and CHFI Radio in Toronto.

Steve Paikin is a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto, and a Master's Degree in Broadcast Journalism at Boston University.

For more information on Steve Paikin, please visit his Web site.