Editing and writing
Examples of my work
Books
I edited these books for Pacific Newspaper Group.
A Thrilling Ride:
The Vancouver Canucks’ 40th Anniversary Season (Greystone Publishing)
Making Headlines: 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun (The Vancouver Sun)
Editing and Writing
Editing: Youth concussions
Rowan’s Law: This series by Vicki Hall, John Kryk and Scott Stinson for Postmedia News won the National Newspaper Award for sports writing in 2015.
Full series here
Feature writing: Mary Spencer inspires Indigenous youth
The word of the week is tacked to the classroom wall, the printing so perfect it could only have been written by an elementary school teacher: “Impossible”.
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Column writing: The Bachelorette
I’ve written on a variety of TV shows, including The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Survivor and Friends.
Read a column from Kaitlyn Bristowe’s season of The Bachelorette here
Writing: The Olympic Games
Olympic predictions: PyeongChang 2018
A sport-by-sport look at who will win what for Team Canada at the Winter Olympic Games.
Full story here
20 Questions with Scott Russell, host of CBC's Olympic Games Primetime
A Q&A with the Canadian voice of the Olympic Games.
Full interview here
Canada’s record-breaking Olympics, medal by medal
A look back at the 2018 Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
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A Bluffer’s Guide to the Winter Olympic Games
You don’t know much about sports, but you don’t want to be left out when talk around the water cooler turns to the Olympic Games. Here are some things you should know so you sound, well, in the know in a handful of common scenarios.
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The Mixed Zone: Ryan Lochte escaped Brazil, but he can't hide from the media
Writing about the Ryan Lochte fiasco for New Republic, Steven Cohen was straight and to the point: “Ryan Lochte is a very dumb man.”
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London 2012 a key moment in the advancement of women in sports
For the first time, every country included at least one woman on its Olympic team.
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The Mixed Zone: Watch out Olympic golfers, the capybaras are coming for you
The new Olympic Golf course is home to some unusual wildlife, including capybaras — the largest species of rodent in the world, which are a slightly cuter version of those horrible creatures from The Princess Bride.
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2016 Olympic countdown: A Rio piece of work
How Rio de Janeiro, Brazil prepared to welcome the world for the Olympic Games.
Full story here