Nancy Wood has covered a wide range of events during her 20 years as a journalist: from mining disasters and murder trials to elections and constitutional negotiations. She began her career in 1985 as a staff reporter with The Montreal Gazette. She then went on to The Toronto Star and became a senior writer from Maclean's Magazine's Ottawa bureau. In 1993, she won an Author's award for Journalistic Enterprise from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters, for The People's Verdict, Maclean's Magazine.

Nancy joined the CBC in 1994 as a writer-broadcaster and has held a wide range of roles since then including researcher, host and national reporter. Born in Montreal and raised in Mont St. Hilaire on the South Shore, Wood graduated from Concordia University, where she studied journalism and was a member of the School of Community and Public Affairs.