Mellissa Fung
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Mellissa Fung

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Mellissa Fung is a veteran journalist, best-selling author, and award-winning filmmaker. Her latest book, written with Louise Penny, The Last Mandarin, will be published in May 2026. Fung has traveled the world producing original award-winning documentaries for Al-Jazeera International, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and TV Ontario, among others. She covered the war in Afghanistan as a field correspondent for the CBC, leading to her best-selling first book, Under an Afghan Sky, which chronicled her experience as a hostage after she was kidnapped while on assignment in Kabul in 2008. Since then, she has focused on human rights reporting, especially on women and girls in post-war conditions. She is also a frequent contributor to The Globe and Mail and Monocle Radio, and her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Toronto Star, TRT, CNN, and PBS. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York. She was appointed as an officer to the Order of Canada in 2024. She lives in Toronto with her husband Paul and her scruffy rescue dog, Sammy.
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