About Fabiola

Fabiola Carletti. Photo by Justin Langille.

(Last updated: March 28, 2011)

Fabiola Carletti is currently working at the CBC’s Toronto headquarters, where she writes for  CBCNews.ca. She has contributed to the daily desk, which covers national and international news; the community desk, which handles social media; and the Toronto desk, which covers local news in the Greater Toronto Area. She has also written content for the Arts and Science/Technology pages.

Fabiola was one of eight young journalists chosen for the prestigious summer-long Joan Donaldson CBC News Scholarship in 2011.  As a Donaldson scholar, Fabiola worked for the Toronto regional news team, the CBCNews.ca staff, the arts content unit and the news network cable station.

In the spring of 2011, she graduated from the master’s program at the UBC School of Journalism in Vancouver, Canada. She earned several distinctions while at UBC, including the James L. and Donald A. Duncan Fellowship, the Helen Badenoch Scholarship, and the Stephen J.A. Ward Prize in Journalism Ethics.

In prior months, Fabiola completed a work/study program at the Globe and Mail’s B.C. bureau., and also worked as the sole teaching assistant for her school’s undergraduate New Media & Society course. In the summer of 2010, she completed a 4-month internship at The Toronto Star, where she covered breaking news from the newspaper’s radio room.

During her stint at the Star, Fabiola also freelanced for other departments, such as the Living and Travel sections. One of her original stories was featured on the paper’s front page, another on the cover of the GTA section and several others on the front page of the Living section.

During the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Fabiola completed a two-week practicum at the Tyee: an independent, online publication dedicated to media democracy and incisive commentary on current events.

Fabiola has also contributed to several student publications like The Ubyssey, The Thunderbird, and MacMedia Magazine, as well as specialized publications like Schema Magazine,  This Magazine, and Open File.

Before graduate school, she studied Professional Writing and Communication Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. In 2009, she graduated with the highest distinction (summa cum laude) having earned an honours double major and several awards and scholarships along the way.

Her digital footprints are all over the internet, but you can learn more about her by reading her resume, or following her twitter feed. She can be reached by email at: ef (dot) carletti (at) gmail (dot) com.

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