Stuart A.

Thompson
stuartathompson@gmail.com | 519-670-0818 | London, ON | www.stuartathompson.com | @StuartAtGazette

Education
Honours BA — Media Studies — The University of Western Ontario 2006 – 2010
With Distinction
• Courses in media, information, technology and culture
• Awarded Dean’s Honours in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010
• Certificate in Writing (with distinction)

Diploma — Print Journalism — Sheridan College 2004 – 2006

With Distinction
• Courses in journalism and media law, set within a weekly student newspaper
environment

Media Experience
Summer Staff — The Globe and Mail June – August 2011
Pending the June 6, 2011 start date

Editor-in-Chief — The Gazette (UWO) May 2010 – April 2011

News and Web Editor — 2009-2010 | Gazette Staff — 2006-2009
• Managed an office of 23 editors with more than 50 volunteers, overseeing story selection,
layout, editing, headline writing, photo selection and website content on high-pressure daily basis
• Used social media and online reporting to become the principal news source for
information about a Western faculty strike, earning more than 300 Twitter followers in one night
• Wrote the first live news story and live blogged about a violent campus arrest; filmed,
edited and posted a related press conference video to net thousands of views in a day
• Earned a $12,000 budget for a video section I built from the ground up, filming and
editing videos that earned 35,000 views in just over a year
• Overhauling the website and introduced social media, earning a 28 per cent boost in
traffic
• Built a Twitter network from the ground up with 17 Gazette accounts and over 4,000 new
collective followers
• Introduced a digital workflow by putting web first, empowering journalists to break
stories online and redesigned the print edition to emphasize web throws, web icons and online-
only content
• Created a free book-sharing website run through the Gazette to attract online readers

Executive — Open House Arts Collective Oct. 2008 – Sept. 2010

• Co-created and ran a three-day music festival, promoting through an interactive website
and print media, breaking our attendance goals
• Organized and promoted concerts, album releases and festivals for a local non-profit
• Created brand identity online and offline, more than doubling community support
Stuart A. Thompson
stuartathompson@gmail.com | 519-670-0818 | London, ON | www.stuartathompson.com | @StuartAtGazette
through concerts and festivals

IT Consultant — University of Western Ontario May 2009 – June 2010

• Created a brand identity for an exchange program between Western and Barcelona
University
• Updated a frames-based website and improved the UI using jQuery, allowing users to
select and load only the desired content