The radio piece that I worked on while at CBC London, England was broadcast last night on the national program, The World this Weekend.
I don’t know how long my piece will be up on the website, so I’ve posted it below for you to listen to. The anchor butchered the saying of my name anyway, so I’d rather not give that any more play. Enjoy!
Tags: CBC, england, london, radio, The People's Supermarket, The World this Weekend
I wrote this article (page 16-17) for Ryerson’s women’s magazine, McClung’s. It’s about why girl babies are still perceived as burdens in Indian society today. There was a big blowout in the press a little while ago about sex-selective abortion in India and how the trend and mentality may be spreading to places like Canada.
I interviewed a number of people for this article and unfortunately I couldn’t include all of their voices. One of those voices that didn’t get included was that of photojournalist Walter Astrada who is documenting gendercide on every single continent. The film he made while in India is riveting and worth a watch.
This past summer I got the chance to work as a videographer for Banff National Park. It was an incredible experience, but not without its challenges! It was basically a crash course in editing, shooting, producing and using a variety of different cameras and softwares. I fell in love with the Go Pro, went on a mad search for a lost audio cable in the woods, filmed bear guts and cougar feces. Ahh… yes… good times. In the end, one of the film’s I co-produced with my boss got accepted into the Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival. And every time another filmmaker asked me what mine was about, I got to say: “It’s a rap video about bears. (I’m so gangsta like that.)”
So… here are some of those films… finally!
Tags: Alberta, animals, archaeology, Banff National Park, bear spray, bears, Canada, crafts, elk, finger weaving, hunting, mountains, parks, rap, travel, Videos
1. Multimedia: Why you should love public radio
2. Prof Crib: Gerda Cammaer (article and photo gallery)
3. Voices: Life’s a stage in an acting family
4. Toronto students participate in National Day of Action (originally published as part of a live blog for the Ryersonian, was picked up by Canadian University Press wire)
5. Airplanes and beer, wisdom from Terry O’Reilly
6. Profile for McClung’s: Lisa Paulson, Ms. Mountain Rescuer (page 10-11)
7. Reduced TTC service takes effect this week
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Ryerson’s School of Architecture has come up with a new way to learn about Toronto buildings and all you need is your smartphone.
You might have to take an honesty/ethics/morality/judgment test at your next job interview. How would you answer?
Tags: architecture, job, journalism, McClung's magazine, multimedia, Ryerson University, Toronto, ttc, video
So this is it, folks, I’m done my physical time at Ryerson University and on Thursday I leave for London, England to start my internship at CBC’s foreign bureau. I had mixed feelings leaving the Ryersonian newsroom on Friday for the last time, emptying my locker and biking home along a route I know every pothole of. I’ve been in school for the past 18 years, at Ryerson for four and a half and now here it is, the next chapter we always talk and dream about, but are so scared to begin.
My beginning will be in Saint John, New Brunswick where I’ll be working as a reporter for the summer at the Telegraph-Journal. And then, we’ll see where the wind carries me. For now, I’m searching for a place to live in N.B. so if you know of anyone… hook a journo up!
Some J-School Firsts (Memories):
-one of our first assignments in first-year reporting was to write our lab partner’s obituary
-my first experience doing ‘streeters’ (aka. getting the peoples’ voice) was with a swollen face and a foggy brain: I’d just had my wisdom teeth removed
-the rush of pride when one of my photographs (that I took with my dinky little point-and-shoot) was printed on the front-page of the Ryersonian
-one of my first paid writing gigs: a 1,000-word feature about urban games pared down to 500 words for Spacing Magazine. Grand total? $50.
-going on exchange to India… and covering a fire in Mumbai, this probably takes the cake.
I’ll leave you with a couple humorous photos that I took this semester for the Ryersonian…
Depending on what type of food gets put into the creature's mouth (hot sauce, chocolate, yogurt, etc.), different poo designs are reflected on the wall behind it. (Otiena Ellwand)
This is a side-view of "Skitts and his Rainbow." The project was designed by Lilian Chow, a third-year image arts student at Ryerson. (Otiena Ellwand)
Tags: england, image arts, internship, journalism, london, new brunswick, Ryerson University, saint john, telegraph-journal
Hi All!
I’m pleased to announce that one of the articles I wrote this fall about the frequent all-nighters that Ryerson architecture students pull on a regular basis was the most read article on the Ryersonian’s website with 1600 reads and 30 comments.
When I applied to Ryerson’s Journalism School in 2007, my entrance essay was about journalism and architecture. It seems like a perfect way to wrap-up my fourth-year reporting class by writing about the subject that got me in. Please click here to read the story and check out the soundslide that I made to go along with it. There are some priceless “golden coins” (quotes) that you don’t want to miss.
Moldy coffee cup left sitting on a model in the studio. For more pics check out the soundslide! (Otiena Ellwand)
Liquid energy. Liquid awake. Liquid sleep. Vice. There's so much more where this came from. (Otiena Ellwand)
1. Dean, Professor, Friend. Remembering Stalin Boctor - Sept. 13, 2011, Ryersonian.ca
2. Downtown Toronto march tackles issues in sexual violence - Sept. 27, 2011, Ryersonian.ca
3. Time capsule found at Maple Leaf Gardens – Oct. 14, 2011, Ryersonian.ca
4. Pre-Med program to come to Ryerson? - Oct. 17, 2011, Ryersonian.ca
5. Are bison on their way back to Banff National Park? – Oct. 27, 2011, Thestar.com
6. Ryerson architecture students win bronze medal for Olympic architecture – Oct. 31, 2011, Ryersonian.ca
Tags: architecture, bison, maple leaf gardens, Olympics, pre med program, protests, Ryerson, Ryersonian, sexual violence, Stalin Boctor, time capsule, Toronto, women's issues
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