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Stories by Ashley Bacon
- Aspiring chefs compete to win free semester at Conestoga College
- Post-secondary schools in Ontario say thousands of international students will miss fall semester
- Waterloo clinic offers psychotherapy using ketamine therapy
- 1 in 8 households struggle to afford food in 2024: Food Bank of Waterloo Region
- Fair inspires Black students to pursue academic excellence
- Kitchener paracyclist bringing hope to amputees in Ukraine
- What was lost - and found - after devastating Brantford club fire
- Experts say lithium batteries are safe – if used properly
- 'A devastating loss': Decades of army, air force memorabilia lost to massive fire at Brantford plaza
- Safety concerns over group of Guelph dogs leads to charges and mail delivery changes
- Meet the coach leading a Guelph high school football team to success
- Another Kitchener office building transforming into rental apartments
- Homecoming 2024: Weekend party wrap-up in Waterloo and Guelph
- Indigenous art to be featured on GRT bus for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- Open house to show how technology can help our aging population
- A supersized recognition for a small town fast food manager
- Region releases report on why corn was destroyed on purchased Wilmot land
- Ontario crowned tornado capital of Canada, weather investigators say
- Remembering Susan Bard, who died on her 79th birthday, in hit-and-run
- Honouring the memory of a Guelph girl who died from cancer
Ashley Bacon
Ashley Bacon is a video journalist and anchor with CTV Kitchener.
She was born in Toronto before moving to Kitchener-Waterloo to complete her bachelor's degree at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2004.
Bacon's first exposure to media was in Sarasota, Fla., at the annual film festival, where she interned in 2007. Her newfound love of interviewing and engaging with people sparked a desire to work in journalism.
She went on to complete her graduate studies in broadcast journalism at Seneca College in 2013.
Her career in media started in radio at Peace River, Alta., for the 680 newsroom.
In 2014, Bacon transitioned her career from radio into television as a reporter and anchor at Thunder Bay Television before moving Australia in 2016.
While in Australia, she was working in media for the Australia Broadcasting Company on the Gold Coast in Queensland.
In 2022, she joined the CTV Northern Ontario team as a Weekend Anchor and Reporter before transferring to Kitchener in October 2023.
She is enjoying being closer to her family and looks forward to exploring Ontario’s vast outdoors.
Bacon speaks English.
