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professional
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q Qualified
print and web journalist with seven years of experience at major media outlets including:
The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, www.CTV.ca, The Independent (
q Copy
editing, fact-checking, and proofreading experience in book publishing industry
q Proficient
with industry software: Microsoft Office, research databases (i.e. Lexis Nexis,
Factiva), QuarkXPress and CopyDesk, Adobe Photoshop and Premiere, MAC and PC
computers, CCI publishing system, web publishing tools and video encoding for websites
q Bachelor of
Journalism degree from
professional experience
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q Assigning,
lining up, copy editing breaking news and in-depth features; repurposing copy
and photos
q Writing,
editing, producing and designing content for special sites on events such as
the Toronto International Film Festival, federal budgets and elections
q Freelance
publication credits between 2000 to 2007 include: The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Star, Quill & Quire, Wish magazine www.foodtv.ca (Food
Network Canada website), The Scarborough
Mirror, www.hero.ac.uk (U.K.’s official
higher education website), Massive
magazine (London, U.K.), Horizon
Armenian Weekly
q Freelance bi-weekly
columnist in
q Fact-checker,
proofreader, copy editor for the 2007 Patron’s
Pick Toronto’s Favourite Restaurants
guidebook
q Writer, copy
editor, researcher, fact-checker for English copy in the accolade-winning
bilingual guidebook The French Side of
Toronto (published 2005)
q Fact-checking and proofreading for Report on Business Magazine (2004)
q Reported for
news, Globe Toronto, Focus, Style and Review sections
q Reported
breaking news, wrote headlines, decks and articles for www.globeandmail.com
q Reported for
GTA section in radio room
q Reported for
www.thestar.ca online for
breaking news overnight
q Monitored
emergency services scanners, wires and liaised with police and emergency
services
q Writing press
releases, website content and preparing media contact lists for businesses such
as Gold House Wholesalers and Computer Source
q Delegated
tasks and led meetings for 17-member staff, oversaw production of weekly paper
using QuarkXPress
q Reported,
copy-edited and designed pages
q Reported and
researched for news, sports, and travel desks
achievements AND SKILLS
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q 2004 finalist for Canadian Association of
Journalists/Canada NewsWire Student
Award of Excellence for “A Tussle With Truffles” (appeared in Toronto Star,
2003)
q Member of Golden Key Intl. Honour Society at Ryerson
University 2000 to 2004
q Recipient of Allama Iqbal Award of Excellence from
Consulate General of Pakistan and CanPak Chamber of Commerce for article on
Education AND TRAINING
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q Completed
following post-graduate courses toward book publishing certificate at
q
q Faculty of
Journalism at
q Attended media law seminars with Toronto Star lawyer Bert Bruser, CTV consultant lawyer Grace
Shafran, as well as numerous investigative journalism and internet research workshops
volunteer experience
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q Co-editor-in-chief
of The Arts and Letters Club’s monthly LAMPSletter
(2005-2006)
q Copy-edited
and wrote website and newsletter content for non-profit organizations such as Women’s
Legal Education and Action Fund (2003 to 2004)
q Wrote press
releases, formulated media contact list and contacted media on behalf of
non-profit organizations such as Amnesty International Toronto and several Armenian
community cultural organizations based in
q Volunteer at
interests and affiliations
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q Speak and write fluent Armenian, currently working to
improve French and Bulgarian
q Enthusiastic traveller (Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands,
Scotland)
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references and writing samples available upon request |