Spencer Turcotte

Spencer Turcotte joined the CTV Kitchener team in July 2019. He graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism program with distinction and minored in sociology. Before joining CTV Kitchener, he interned at CTV Toronto and covered multiple elections for the Canadian Media Elections Consortium. Spencer was also a reporter and video producer for J-Source, where some of his work was republished in Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. He was awarded the Jeff Junke Memorial Award from Ryerson University. Since joining CTV News, he was named a RTDNA finalist twice for his feature reporting. He won the RNAO award for the best series, which highlighted hospitals' efforts to retain nurses after the onset of COVID-19. He also had two lead stories for newscasts which won awards for the RTDNA Central Region Best TV Newscast. Spencer speaks English.