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Work Experience

Reporter, The , Toronto – September 2012 to present Selected to be part of the one-year reporting internship program, which includes rotations through city, national, business and other sections of the newspaper.

Reporter, , Toronto – July 2011 to September 2012 Reporting features and news for print and online, including breaking news such as the Eaton Centre shooting for Canada’s national newspaper. Political coverage included a two-month placement in Ottawa.

Web editor, Report on Business, The Globe and Mail Toronto – June to July 2011 Edited copy and created online assets for the Report on Business including text galleries, photo galleries, audio slideshows, interactive maps and live discussions. I edited audio and photos and used applications including Storify.

Radio Room reporter, The Toronto Star, Toronto – October 2010 to May 2011 Monitoring news and emergency scanners to produce breaking news and newspaper content. I contributed to morning live-blogs and found breaking news on social media.

Features editor, The Ryersonian, Toronto – October to December 2010 Developing in-depth journalism about as well updating the outlet’s website

Reporting intern, The Globe and Mail, Toronto – September to October 2010 Covering news and features in regular and alternative formats for a university credit internship.

Reporting intern, The Windsor Star, Windsor – May to September 2010 Filing breaking news, monitoring scanners, covering beats including court and pitching stories. Coverage of the June 2010 Leamington tornado was nominated for an Ontario Newspaper Award.

Associate news editor and news editor, The Eyeopener, Toronto – September 2009 to May 2010 Generating ideas, filing FOI requests, assisting reporters and designing pages for the campus paper.

Production assistant, Global Ontario, Focus Ontario: Our House – June to August 2009 Researching archives, finding sources and shotlisting video for the Queen’s Park documentary.

Intern, Queen’s Park Press Gallery, Toronto – May to August 2009 Assisting Ontario legislative bureau reporters with their assignments and attending scrums and press conferences.

Photographer, Snap Northumberland West, Cobourg – May to August 2008 Photographing more than 20 events.

Database team leader, theglobeandmail.com, Toronto – September 2007 to April 2010 Organizing photos, database information and biographies for election and business pages.

Education

Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas – January 2013 This online course is upcoming.

King’s Summer School in Data Journalism, Halifax – June 2012 This one-week course taught the basics of scraping, mapping and thinking like a data journalist.

Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) and Politics minor, Ryerson University, Toronto – September 2007 to April 2011

Awards

Canadian Military Journalism Course Scholarship – May 2011 Selected to take part in a 10-day course in Alberta that gave military background through classroom learning and hands-on experience including a three-day stay at CFB Wainwright.

Loretta H. Yaskiel Memorial Award – November 2010 Awarded to a student who has demonstrated excellence in court reporting or legal issues.

Sandra Pothier Award for Investigative Journalism – April 2010 Awarded annually to an editor on The Eyeopener’s masthead.

Mobile City Photo Contest Finalist – June 2008 One of 30 finalists from approximately 200 entrants.

Osprey Media Scholarship – June 2007 Awarded annually to the most promising co-op student at an Osprey newspaper.

Skills

• Writing for web • Photography • Photoshop • Shooting video • Final Cut Pro • InDesign • G driver’s license • Comfort on camera • Archival searching • Social networking • Story generation • Copy editing