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Location:

India

Posted:

February 21, 2013

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Resume:

Journalist

Jennifer Wilson

Education

****-****

University of King s College

Combined first class honours in journalism and political science.

Experience

Sept. 2008 to present

Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.

Technology and gaming editor, living and entertainment departments. Responsible for consumer technology and video games coverage, as well as some urban life, arts and life editing and web and print production. Also responsible for weekend curation of thestar.com.

Team editor, living and entertainment departments. With a focus on online story telling, responsible for keeping sites up to date, editing and assigning the latest news and helping to plan and execute projects such at .

Editor of, responsible for editing, commissioning and packaging articles and photos, updating the site, generating special sections and coordinating with departments and home page staff for content and placement on the Star‘s homepage.

Editor of, responsible for commissioning, writing, copy editing and packaging editorial, blogging, maintaining a Twitter presence and requesting, overseeing and QA-ing changes to the site.

Web editor for, maintaining lineups, editing reporter and wire copy, running live blogs, creating online multimedia packages, and working on a variety of projects including features, breaking news and Olympics and election coverage.

2010

Emond Montgomery Publications

Contributing author to new media journalism textbook The New Journalist, writing a chapter on interviewing skills in the digital age. Credited as Jennifer Wilson-Speedy.

2008- present

Freelance writer, copy editor and researcher. Weekly column on home decor television appears Saturdays in the Toronto Star s New in Homes section for two years, as well as contributions to special sections.

June 2008- August 29, 2008

Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.

Summer copy-editor for thestar.com, responsible for editing wire copy and stories from Star reporters for the web. Also responsible for creating Olympic athlete profiles and photos.

June 2007-June 2008

CBCNews.ca, Toronto, Ont.

Casual researcher and writer, writing stories on the regional, national, world, consumer life, technology and science, and health websites as well as in depth features, moderating comments on the Your Voice page and writing headlines for the Newsworld crawl. Also worked on the Ontario Votes website and the Toronto multiculturalism project (http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/features/diversity).

Training

October 2009

One day CampVJ workshop, hosted by the Toronto Star, covering the basics of writing and reporting online, as well as use of social networks for professional purposes.

May 2007

Photoshop workshop hosted by CBC.ca, covering the basics of choosing and editing photos for online use.

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