Experience

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  CBC Yukon

  • Whitehorse, Yukon

  • Executive Producer

    • Jan 2022 - Present
    • Whitehorse, Yukon

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  Stories North

  • Whitehorse, Yukon

  • Founder/Creative Lead

    • Feb 2017 - Present
    • Whitehorse, Yukon

    Stories North came to life through a Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award that I won in 2017. Since its start and over the past three summers, through Stories North I've brought 41 Carleton students to the Yukon for four weeks packed with transformative life and learning experiences.Stories North is a direct response to the Calls To Action in the final report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission aimed at fundamentally changing the way we teach journalism and the ways we report on the issues most important to Canada's Indigenous peoples, issues that should be important to all Canadians.

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  Carleton University

  • Ottawa, Canada Area

  • Associate Professor

    • 2003 - Present
    • Ottawa, Canada Area

    I teach across all four years of our undergraduate program and our two-year master's degree. I came to Carleton with a wide range of experience in audio and visual journalism as well as print and web reporting and have translated those core experiences into finding ways to innovate and adapt journalism education to the demands and opportunities of digital technologies.

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  CBC

  • Yukon, Canada

  • Bureau Producer

    • 2002 - 2003
    • Yukon, Canada

    Led a team of reporters, videographers and editors producing daily news and current affairs coverage for a pan-Northern newscast. Generated and assigned story ideas, vetted scripts, responded to network requests for content. Co-produced The Lone Trail, a feature-length documentary about life in the North, played out during one of the world's toughest sled-dog races. The documentary was nominated for a Gemini Award, one of Canada's top broadcast honours.

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  Reuters News Agency

  • Winnipeg, Canada Area

  • Senior Reporter

    • 2000 - 2002
    • Winnipeg, Canada Area

    Responsible for running bureau, writing general news, business stories and features of interest to an international audience. Coverage focused on grain trade, agriculture and livestock industries with regular reporting on the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, at the time Canada's only open outcry agricultural futures and options trading floor.

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  Global News

  • Winnipeg, Canada Area

  • National Reporter

    • 1998 - 2000
    • Winnipeg, Canada Area

    National Reporter for Global's supper-hour newscast, broadcast from Toronto. Responsible for monitoring and researching events in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Minnesota, covering major news stories and producing features for a national audience.

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  Gemini News Service

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Reporter, Copy-Editor, Researcher

    • 1996 - 1997
    • London, United Kingdom

    Fellowship awarded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to work at a London-based news agency specializing in covering the Global South. The position included four months on assignment as a correspondent in East Africa.

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  CBC

  • Canada
  • Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Writer-Broadcaster

    • 1995 - 1996

    Gathered and edited audio for short documentaries, studio debriefs and soundscapes. Filed live reports, chase produced and studio directed for current affairs show, Yukon Morning.

  • Associate Producer

    • 1994 - 1995

    Researched and produced live and pre-recorded stories for daily current affairs program focusing on Canada's capital. Script writing, audio editing and preparing research backgrounders for host(s) were regular components of this job.

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  CTV News

  • Ottawa, Canada Area

  • Field Producer

    • Apr 1993 - Sep 1993
    • Ottawa, Canada Area

    Coordinated stories for nightly national newscast. Worked closely with reporters to write scripts, conduct interviews, attend news conferences and Parliamentary scrums and gather visual footage from across Canada. Oversaw final editing of pieces.