My work has been published in The Hill Times, Embassy News, Power & Influence magazine, the National Observer, The New Times (Kigali, Rwanda), the Sherbrooke Record, First Perspective and Policy Options. You can read some of my work in my portfolio. Below are some highlights.

I spent 2014 volunteering and traveling in South Asia during a sabbatical from my job as the deputy editor of The Hill Times. You can read about my time on my blog, as well as a version of this story that was published in Embassy News on April 9, 2014.

I spent two months as the business desk sub-editor at The New Times, in Kigali, Rwanda in 2008. I wrote about my time visiting the Gisozi Genocide Memorial, but also this story “Press freedom in Rwanda: ‘It always has to be framed in the context of the genocide,'” published by Embassy News on July 23, 2008. To view the stories I wrote for The New Times, please click here.

Awards

• First place prize in Ontario Community Newspaper Association awards in best vertical product category (2015)

Under my leadership as editor, Power & Influence magazine won its first award since its inception.

• First place prize in Canadian Community Newspaper Association awards in best feature series category (2014)

Feature series “The Whistleblowers,” profiling whistleblowers in the federal government, co-authored with Jessica Bruno, The Hill Times, June 23 to Aug. 11, 2014

Judges Benjamin Vachet and Ed Arnold, said: “Finding and getting federal whistleblowers to tell their stories even years later was an incredible journalistic journey.”

You can read the stories that I wrote for the series here. For the full series, please visit The Hill Times.

• First place prize in Ontario Community Newspaper Association awards in best rural reporting category (2012)

“Attawapiskat doc filmmaker says Duncan must have known earlier, she asked him for an interview last year,” The Hill Times, Dec. 5, 2011

Judge Stephen Cogan, co-manager of the journalism program at Centennial College in Toronto, said:  “The story combines some of the best elements not only of community newspapering, but of journalism, period: social injustice, addressed through thorough reporting, clear writing, striking presentation … and even a touch of zeal. The fundamental issue being so well-addressed in this story is as critical now as it was then.”

• First place prize in Ontario Community Newspaper Association awards in best rural reporting category (2010)

“Canada should have national food policy, say political parties’ agriculture critics,” The Hill Times, July 12, 2010

Judge Tim Jacques said: “Well rounded story on an issue of national importance.”

• Second prize in Quebec Community Newspaper Association awards in best health reporting category (2005)

Thesis

While working full time, I completed a master’s thesis on how public journalism can be used as a development tool in South Africa. The thesis, ‘Making Public Life Work’: Can Public Journalism Be Used as a Tool to Further Development in South Africa?, abstract is below:

The thesis explains how the concept of public journalism, which allows journalists to get involved in their communities rather than being neutral observers in order to contribute to a better democratic society, can be used in South Africa to foster democratic and social development from a “bottom-up” approach. The thesis includes a discussion about the role of the media in a democratic society, as well as notions of democracy and development, to argue that journalists must be participants in debates about their society. This is even more important in the context of developing countries, such as South Africa, which is undergoing a significant transition from years of struggle under apartheid to an emerging developed democracy.

You can read the full thesis here.