JANE A.

GERSTER
jane.gerster@gmail.com www.janegerster.com

EDUCATION & AWARDS

Carleton University, 2009 present. Candidate for Bachelor of Journalism with minor in Spanish, 2013. Specializing in international affairs reporting with a special focus on media coverage of Mexican drug cartels. University of Calgary Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, May 2012. Certificate of completion for the Canadian Military Journalism Course. One of 12 students selected on scholarship to attend a nine-day course on military journalism and the Canadian Forces. Spent five days studying media-military theory in Calgary and four days interacting with Canadian Forces training at CFB Wainwright. Jarvis Collegiate Institute, 2005 2009. Ontario Secondary School Diploma. Winner of the Sports Writing, Feature category in the Toronto Star High School Newspaper Awards, 2008. Winner of the Douglas William Blackwood Memorial Award for American History 2007 2008. Winner of the Naomi Harder Memorial Award for Modern Literature 2008 2009. Blyth Academy, July 2007, July 2008. Earned grade 11 biology credit studying in Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands. Earned grade 12 European history credit while studying on a boat in Europe.

WORK EXPERIENCE

The Canadian Press Editorial intern with the Atlantic Bureau, June August 2012. Responsible for writing stories and monitoring the Atlantic wire alone on weekends, as well as providing original print, audio, and video content for print, broadcast and online services. Stories picked up by the CBC, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and more. More than 3,000 news outlets picked up story about a Nova Scotia lobster invention worldwide. St. Catharines Standard Intern, May 2012. Responsible for providing a variety of coverage including weather-related farming problems and a feature on a mother and son reunited after more than 40 years apart. Charlatan Publications News editor, January 2011 May 2012. Manage a volunteer staff by guiding news coverage, generating story ideas, assigning reporters and photo requests, editing consistent with CP style and page layout with Adobe InDesign. Responsible for breaking nationwide news multiple times and was asked for sources multiple times from Canadas leading news agencies. Coverage of university politics helped drive traffic on the newspapers website to the highest level ever recorded. The National Post Toronto news intern, December 2011. Responsible for writing stories, features, quick web hits and live-tweeting about city hall, a Canadian hockey player facing sexual assault charges and a pair of gay penguins, stories were picked up by Postmedia newspapers across the country.

The United Nations Student Journalism Program Reporter, September 2011. Provided coverage for the 64th annual UN DPI/NGO Conference on sustainability in Germany as the only Canadian in a 15-member global contingent of student journalists, blogging to the conference website and pitching story ideas related to sustainability. The Kelowna Daily Courier Intern, May - June 2011. Responsible for providing a variety of coverage including community town halls on the H.S.T., missing atheist bus ads and the 2011 mail strike, wrote briefs and news stories for print, web and Canadian Press wire publication. Global National Intern at the Toronto Bureau, June & December 2010 Intern at the Ottawa Bureau, January 2011 March 2011. Shot listed tapes, acted as budget runner during the 2011 federal budget lock-up, accompanied to and conducted interviews about security during the 2010 G8/G20, the 2010 FIFA world cup and secured the first public copy of the diagrams of the diagrams outlining Prime Minister Stephen Harpers fake lake during the G8/G20 summits, wrote script and picked clips for story on G20 security measures. VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Projects Abroad Caregiver, June August 2009. Lived with an Argentinean family and worked daily as a caregiver at Residencia Eva Peron, a community home just outside of Cordoba for children abused by their parents. Was responsible for organizing daily activities, preparing meals, feeding the children, changing their diapers and putting them to sleep. International Student Exchange (Ontario) Exchange Student, February April 2005, February May 2007 Lived and studied with a French family in Avremesnil, near Dieppe, for two months in grade eight. Lived and studied with another French family in Cavaillon, near Avignon, for three months in grade 10. Blogged and photographed two-week road trip through Moroccan desert and cities such as Fes, Marrakesh and Chefchaouen. Proficient in French and Spanish. Competent with Avid Newscutter, iNews, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Audition, Cool Edit & Jimi. Published photos in the Charlatan, Macleans OnCampus, CanCulture Online Magazine, Bonner Umweltzeitung magazine in Germany. October 2012.

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