& EXPERIENCE IN BRIEF
CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION || 2010 || Toronto, Canada
Senior Writer, News Online
Worked on CBC.ca, Canada’s largest news site, producing web content, editing copy and writing national and international breaking news stories. Invited to collaborate with a small multimedia team on a special project, Canadians in Haiti: Stories of Loss and Remembrance. Interviewed friends and family of earthquake victims, primarily from francophone communities, and wrote lengthy profiles of each.
WALL STREET JOURNAL || 2009 || Paris, France
Stringer, Intern, Southern Europe Bureau
Reported and wrote news articles, features and video on France, Spain and Portugal for the Wall Street Journal. A page A1 story and video on the Paris "Bad Behavior" Brigade were among the most popular items that week on WSJ.com. A report on the proposed ban of the niqab in France made the front page of the European edition. Several articles were picked up by international press and republished in other languages. Click here for full list of stories.
FRANCE24 || 2008 - 2009 || Issy les Moulineaux, France
Producer, English News Desk
Wrote and produced breaking news stories for broadcast on the English channel and website. Worked closely with the French and Arabic news teams. Used iNEWS and Avid Newscutter to research, voice and edit segments under tight deadlines. Click here for full list of stories.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE|| 2009 || Paris, France
Intern, English Copy Desk and AFP TV
Translated and edited copy from AFP correspondents into English at the international copy desk. Translated content, produced clips and short segments on Final Cut, and assisted with shoots for AFP TV.
CBC RADIO 3 || 2002 - 2005 || Canada
Contributing writer, Producer
I wrote music features for the online magazine and produced short segments for the radio broadcast.
My work was included in a "best of" issue, and my hour-long "Scene Report" documentary was rebroadcast several times.
FREELANCE WRITING || 2001 - 2009 || Canada & International
Various: The Toronto Star, WalrusMagazine.com, The Dominion, Exclaim, Pound, NOW, The Paris Globalist, etc
I wrote profiles, cover stories, research-heavy features, and music reviews for national magazines, newspapers and alternative weeklies across Canada.
I wrote a cover story on musician Buck 65 for Exclaim Magazine, and a feature on
commercial urban radio helped trigger a change in a Toronto-based station’s programming. An investigative piece on Greece's troubled border with Turkey was published in a Paris-based foreign affairs journal.
LANGUAGES || Native Portuguese speaker, proficient in French and Spanish, currently learning Arabic. I've worked as an interpreter (Portuguese and Spanish) for Toronto Community Housing Corporation, City of Toronto, and Schools Without Borders, and did extensive on-the-fly translation (French, Portuguese, Spanish) at AFP and France24.
OTHER SKILLS ||Highly proficient in audio recording and editing techniques (ProTools, Cool Edit Pro, Audacity), video recording and editing (Avid Newscutter, Final Cut), web building (Dreamweaver, Wordpress, MovableType, HTML, CSS), newsroom and research tools (iNEWS, Factiva, LexisNexis).
AWARDS || Recipient of a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. Two-time recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Grant for non-fiction research and writing. Proud winner of two "Golden Record" awards from CHMA FM for best radio show and best promo.
& EDUCATION IN BRIEF
SCIENCES PO (L'Institut d'études politiques de Paris) || Paris, France || 2009
Double Masters program with Columbia. Focus: European Affairs, International Politics, Migration, Arabic.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM || New York, USA || 2008
Masters of Science. Print concentration.
Focus: Human Rights Reporting, Literary Journalism, Radio Documentary.
MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY || Sackville, Canada || 2004
Bachelor of Arts. Major: English. Minors: French Literature, Hispanic Studies.
Semester exchange at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
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