Petrina Gentile is an award-winning automotive journalist - one of the few women who cover cars in Canada. Petrina has been writing for The Globe and Mail’s Drive section since 2004, reporting on new vehicle debuts, the transition to electric vehicles, smart mobility solutions and the latest automotive technology.
She appears regularly covering the automotive beat on CTV NewsChannel, CHCH TV, BNN Bloomberg, CP24 and CityTV. She emcees and moderates several automotive events including The APMA's annual Canada Automotive Summit, Build A Dream's Brunch & Build in honour of International Women's Day and The Globe and Mail's Future of Automotive event. She is a recipient of the 2025 Donald S. Wood Leadership Award for Exemplary Commitment to Automotive Journalism and one of three Canadian jurors on the Women's World Car of the Year Award, which includes 82 women auto writers from across 55 countries. Previously, she produced 18 seasons of the national TV show Car/Business with Jeremy Cato and Michael Vaughan, which was broadcast weekly on CTV and BNN Bloomberg.
She has written several non-fiction books for kids including "Big Trucks, Big Wheels," "Dirt Movers" and "The Ballet School." Before focusing on cars, she was a news writer at CTV and a producer at BNN Bloomberg. She has a Master of Journalism (MJ) from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours English - Rhetoric and Professional Writing and Applied Studies - Co-operative Program) from the University of Waterloo.
