Beginning in September 2022, Steven DSouza joins THE FIFTH ESTATE as a new co-host of CBC News award-winning investigative documentary program.

DSouza is a veteran reporter and foreign correspondent, well known to CBC audiences for his impressive range of work including live reporting from the U.S. protests around the death of George Floyd, coverage of two presidential elections, and investigative work that stretches back to his time as a local reporter in Toronto. Most recently he co-hosted CBCs consumer investigative program MARKETPLACE.

He began his CBC News career in 2000 as a reporter and video journalist based in PEI and Toronto. As a foreign correspondent based in New York City, DSouza covered a range of events including Donald Trumps years in the White House, the Papal conclave in Rome and the World Cup in Brazil.

In his role on CBCs special coverage teams he has navigated live reporting from the G20 protests in Toronto, to the riots that followed the death of George Floyd, earning DSouza and the team a Canadian Screen award. He also won recognition while working with CBC Toronto for a series of investigative stories on drug trafficking in the South Asian community.