Leora Kornfeld

Who is Leora Kornfeld?

Leora Kornfeld is a digital media researcher and former radio personality. She was best known for hosting Realtime on CBC Stereo in the 1990s, which was billed as the first radio program in the world to integrate emerging Internet technologies such as e-mail and IRC into its program format.

Kornfeld got her start in radio at CITR-FM, the campus station at Vancouver's University of British Columbia where fellow disc jockeys included Terry McBride, founder of the Nettwerk label, former Globe and Mail music critic Chris Dafoe, CBC Radio commentator and digital marketing consultant Tod Maffin, and Vancouver Jazz Festival founder Robert Kerr. After graduating from UBC she went on to work at CFOX-FM, first as a technical operator during the 2-6 a.m. shift and then as the writer for the syndicated program The Rock Journal. Following her stint at CFOX she ventured into television writing at the CBC. Her first job there was on the short-lived late night teen series pilot 1. She then went on to work on the final season of Switchback and the inaugural season of Streetcents.