The Good Sport

Scheme Magazine is currently featuring my story “The Good Sport.“ My piece is kicking off the second run of their series on cultural identity “But where are you really from?” Excerpted from the original… Read More →

Learning to Listen

“A wise old owl sat in an oak. The longer he sat, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can’t we be like that wise old bird?”… Read More →

From the breaking news desk: May 29-June 1

Today, for the first time, I called the mother of a victim who was shot–specifically, a 14-year-old boy who was sprayed with bullets through the window of his own home. Fortunately, the teen… Read More →

From the breaking news desk: May 21-26

My latest string of radio room overnight shifts mostly consisted of listening in on police officers who were dealing with rowdy party-goers and complaints of gunshots that ended up being false alarms. One… Read More →

The women of the Toronto Star radio room

We’ve introduced ourselves on the Toronto Star intern blog. According to Roger Gillespie–senior editor, training and development–the post has been attracting lots of traffic from both twitter and facebook. In a profession that used… Read More →

Party-goers save baby raccoons from rooftop

It’s been a pretty slow night in the Toronto Star radio room. On the bright side, I got to do a happy story. Even the police officers I spoke with couldn’t help but… Read More →

No comment: the hidden face of feedback

There are many names for people who read blog posts but don’t comment on them: internet introverts, digital wallflowers, the silent majority… The CBC’s Jim Lebans lists all of these nicknames in his… Read More →

Donate more than blood, emergency workers ask

Fabiola Carletti Staff Reporter Originally published in the Toronto Star | | Paramedics and other emergency workers are asking healthy Canadians to register as potential stem cell and bone marrow donors Monday from… Read More →

UBC J-school students win prestigious US award

It’s that other j-school in the west—at least, that’s how I used to refer to the UBC School of Journalism. Call me a self-centered Torontonian, but when considering graduates programs in journalism last… Read More →

From the breaking news desk: May 14

Here are my most recent stories. Sorry, they’re generally still really depressing. Police and mourners join together for a special RIDE Bowmanville man charged with sexual assault Police looking for three men in… Read More →