Resume:
Work experience_____________________
• Reporter / editor, CBC North Radio One
(First contract was December 2007 to October 2008. New term as reporter started January 2010)
Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Reporter covering different communities in Canada’s western arctic. Contributor to Northwind, a weekday hour-long community news program heard on CBC North Radio One. Duties include finding stories, recording and editing interviews, writing scripts and questions. I can also serve as replacement host of Northwind during holidays, for up to three weeks at a time.
I also create soundslides for CBC.ca’s national and local sites, (www.cbc.ca/northwind). Radio news items have been broadcast on the NWT’s morning news and the nationally-broadcast World Report and Editor’s Choice on Sirius Satellite.
Daily work includes pitching, researching and assembling stories for radio news. Occasional TV commentary via Skype and Ipod video.
• Reporter, The Review
(October 2008 – December 2009)
Vankleek Hill, Ontario
The Review is a community newspaper which covers Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec. It is updated daily online and published weekly. I worked at the Review during the launch year of TheReview.ca, with a focus on creating multimedia features and helping the publication set up a website.
Writing work included coverage of local crime and politics including frequent interviews with members of parliament and provincial legislature. Created weekly multimedia features and online photo galleries.
• Beaufort Delta reporter, Northern News Services
[June 06-Dec. 07]
Inuvik, Northwest Territories
General assignment reporter for NWT weeklies News/North, Yellowknifer and Inuvik Drum. Would use telephone to cover seven small communities as many were only accessible by plane. Wrote 7-10 articles a week plus news briefs and photos.
Covered variety of topics including stories of residential school abuse, territorial government and local oil and gas industry. Three weekly rotating features including “On the job” profiles, “Northern Life” cultural features, photo spreads, humour columns, editorials and “Neighbourly News,” a weekly collection anecdotes and community events.
Briefly served as replacement editor of Inuvik Drum, writing entire newspaper’s content from sports page to editorial to news to “street beat.”
• Freelance reporter:
My articles and photos have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, Up Here magazine, Far North Oil & Gas, Nunatsiaq News, the newsletter Beyond the Hill (Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians) and the Inuvialuit cultural magazine Tusaayaksat.
I’m a former writer and board member for The Charlatan, Carleton University’s campus newspaper.
• Layout/coordinator, “The Bomber Pages” Inuvik youth publication
[Summer 2007-Winter 08]
Worked alongside Inuvik Youth Centre and NWT Literacy Council. Helped young people create a publication about themselves featuring stories, polls and jokes. (“Bomber pages” was the title voted by youth, and bomber is youth slang meaning cool in the North.) Published six small editions and also made available online.
• Photo blogger
My website www.inuvikphotos.ca gets between 200 and 500 visits a day.
Up Here magazine recommended this site to its readers in April/May 2008. It offers information for people moving to town, as well as more than 1000 searchable pictures of Inuvik wildlife, buildings, scenery and people.
Voted “Best photography” 2008 by NWTblogs.com vote, which was featured in NWT media and open to public voting.
Education and training________________
• Bachelors of Journalism, Carleton University, Ottawa.
[Graduated April 2006]
Specialization in online and print reporting, B+ average overall in all courses over four years.
Misc skills_________________________
• Photography:
I own a Nikon D90 and and know to use aperture, shutter speeds and ISO to take good photos in different situations. My kit includes zoom lenses, filters, fish-eye lens, tripod, etc.
• Layout / photo processing
I can use Quark, Photoshop and other applications for layout.. Also familiar with techniques used to enhance photos for print and web. (Colour curbing, sharpening, etc.)
• Knowledge of WordPress and Drupal
Though I cannot code Flash or other languages, I know basic HTML and am familiar with WordPress, Blogger and Drupal systems of web publishing.
• Francophone
I can speak and write fluently in French.
Philippe Morin
(867) 777-7615 at CBC North Inuvik
(867) 678-0542 cell phone
Phil.Morin1@gmail.com
