I am a multimedia journalist who specializes in chronic health issues and vulnerable populations. I'm currently working on story about a woman in her mid-fifties who is dealing with an aggressive form of Alzheimer's Disease.
In the fall of 2014, I launched a series on Chronic Vertigo on CBC.ca. And I few years ago, I worked with my students on a special multimedia series for CBC.ca on the state of palliative care in Canada. Before discovering multimedia, I worked as a producer at CBC National Radio Current Affairs for over a decade. There I created in depth programming on issues ranging from child welfare, homelessness, poverty, reproductive rights, various Supreme Court decisions, and health care policy, delivery and practice. I also regularly covered cultural issues. Previous CBC, I worked as a TV documentary writer and producer for Breakthrough Films. My documentary work was broadcast around the world. I stumbled into journalism through work in community radio. Previous to this I was a writer/producer in alternative theatre.
Throughout my career, I have been a freelance writer publishing in the New York Times, The Nation, the Newstatesman, the Globe and Mail and several Canadian magazines.
Prior to coming to Western in 2006, I taught at McMaster medical school.
Teaching: Media and mental health, multimedia journalism, audio production, and health journalism and communication.
Research: My research focuses primarily on narratives of chronic illness, journalism ethics, and the erasing boundaries between journalism and advertising content.
FIMS 9603
Health Reporting and Health Communication
2017 Winter , 2016 Winter
JOU 754
Theory and Practice of Radio Journalism
2007 Fall , 2006 Fall
JOU 764
Media Specialization: Radio
2008 Winter , 2007 Winter (2 sections)
JOU 9700
Introduction to Journalism
2011 Summer , 2009 Summer
JOU 9740
Health and Medical Journalism - Analysis and Practice
2015 Winter , 2013 Winter , 2012 Winter , 2011 Winter , 2010 Winter
JOU 9754
Theory and Practice of Audio Journalism
2014 Fall , 2013 Fall , 2012 Fall , 2011 Fall , 2010 Fall , 2009 Fall
JOU 9764
Media Specialization: Audio
2015 Winter , 2014 Winter , 2013 Winter , 2012 Winter , 2011 Winter , 2010 Winter , 2009 Winter
MIT 2165
Special Topics in MIT: Health, Media & Information
2017 Fall , 2016 Fall
MIT 3090
MIT Academic Internship I
2017 Summer , 2016 Fall (2 sections)
MIT 3432
Special Topics in MIT: Media and Mental Health
2017 Fall , 2016 Fall , 2015 Fall
MMJC 9601
Special Topic: Audio Storytelling
2017 Winter , 2016 Winter