Versatile journalist...
Californian
Reporter
My journalism in California has touched on everything from the housing crisis to crime to wildfires to municipal and state politics.
Silicon Valley community journalist
In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic Metro News launched a newspaper in the Silicon Valley town of Los Gatos, California that quickly found its place at heart of the community.
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As the lead reporter, my coverage has included Council and Planning Commission updates, reporting on the contentious Housing Element process, environmental cleanups, education articles and street festival, concert and 9/11 memorial write-ups.
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I also helped manage our summer internship program.
Santa Cruz County writer and photographer
My staff reporter role with Metro News also involves covering school boards, community life, traffic collisions, municipal and regional politics across Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley for the Press Banner newspaper.
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It has given me the opportunity to contribute, for two consecutive years, to the Good Times Santa Cruz team that won the General Excellence award with the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and to appear frequently on the Cruz, News & Views show on KSQD 90.7 FM.
I spent a year working as a reporter on the crime desk of City News Service, the largest regional wire service in the country, on a fill-in basis.
The job involved scanning Twitter feeds, checking for public agency press releases, monitoring local media broadcasts and listening to firefighter and police scanner traffic in order to identify, verify and report on breaking news as it happened.
My reporting was used by latimes.com, ABC7, KNX1070 radio, CBS8, NBC4 and FOX11 among other news outlets.
Wire Reporting - City News Service (LA)
Creating from my earliest days:
Just a month after birth I started writing. In elementary school, I would deliver "newscasts" with my best friend at recess. And in secondary school I filmed satirical news videos with another friend.
By the time I graduated high school I was already reporting full-time for the local daily. And while at Ryerson University (in Toronto), I interned for Now Magazine, Canada's largest alt-weekly. I graduated with a Bachelors of Journalism.
A year of rural reporting at the Innisfail Province
I worked for a year in rural Alberta, Canada, reporting from a two-person newsroom in Innisfail, an agricultural and oil industry outpost.
I wrote 10-12 articles a week about breaking news, local councils, community characters, crime, education, sports and economic issues.
Two years reporting in Courtenay B.C. at the Comox Valley Echo on picturesque Vancouver Island
Next I worked at twice-weekly newspaper the Comox Valley Echo covering court, health, municipal politics, business and more.
My articles were picked up by regional publications such as the Victoria Times Colonist and Vancouver Sun.
Additional journalism
