# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wendy-mesley
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:30:31.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wendy-mesley"
name: "Wendy Mesley"
slug: "wendy-mesley"
description: "Wendy Mesley is a Canadian television journalist, podcaster, and blogger. She worked for CBC News from 1981 to 2021 in roles including national correspondent at the Quebec Legislature and the Ottawa Parliamentary Bureau. She was the anchor of The National, host of Undercurrents, Disclosure, and Marketplace, and from 2018 to 2020, she hosted the Sunday morning talk show The Weekly with Wendy Mesley."
tagline: "Canadian television journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wendy_Mesley_at_the_18th_CFC_Annual_Gala.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957-01-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.91
  momentum:             4.584717607973421
  historical:           3.792013333333333
  currentAttention:     25.47065337763011
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581919/"
    handle:    "nm0581919"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "ويندى ميسلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Mesley"
    title: "Wendy Mesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Mesley"
    title: "Wendy Mesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3567254"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5008345"
    title: "Wendy Mesley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations