David Brake Email & Phone Number

St. John's, NL, CA

Managing communications for the Atlantic branch https://transportactionatlantic.ca/ of Transport Action Canada https://www.transportaction.ca/ - the leading citizen-led national transit advocacy group.

St John’s, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

Founded and launched this site and newsletter which focuses on the practical and policy needs of the Canadian consumer rather than on car enthusiasts or the tech or car industry.

St John's, Newfoundland

Writing articles about Newfoundland public policy issues including transit, climate change, immigration and libraries for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, The Overcast, The Independent, the MUN Gazette and Le Gaboteur and other local publications.

St John’s, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

Helping Iron and Earth to understand the needs and desires of oil and gas workers and their communities in the East of Canada. Then working with them and through building partnerships with other non-profit organizations to communicate their vision of a just transition to the media and policy makers.

St John's, Newfoundland And Labrador

Ensuring that research-led insights into immigration policy and practices in Atlantic Canada are communicated with policy-makers and the public

St John’s, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

Providing impartial advice to existing and potential EV owners.

St John's, Newfoundland

Working for this leading Canadian science education non-profit I have:* Ensured that the science content in volunteer-provided articles on the website is up to date, credible and understandable for a K-12 audience.* Defined and documented how the website editorial team will work with the volunteer management team to recruit and train online volunteers to.

Alberta, Canada

Returned to teach a graduate-level course COMM505 which I completely redesigned to focus on the future of journalism in Canada and its regulatory context.

Returned to teach COMM 505 a graduate course on online community building and management online via Moodle.

Online

Have updated and delivered a course in online community management, drawing on my social media research and on prior professional experience (eg as Virtual Communities Director at a multi-million dollar startup). Fittingly I taught it online using U of A's Moodle courseware platform.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Researching and writing stories about transit and other policy issues for the front page of the leading website focused on condos, architecture, urban development and real estate in the GTHA.
• Managing relationships with the site's vibrant virtual community
• Overseeing the promotion of the site using social media
• Advising the site's owners on content and user experience issues

Toronto, Canada Area

Writing news, reports and case studies for this organization that promotes government use of open data in Canada and internationally, creates websites to promote transparency and facilitates public participation.

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Teaching "Building Publics Using Social Media" to third and fourth year undergraduates

Toronto, Canada Area

• Teaching in the BA Undergraduate Journalism degree
• Courses delivered:First year: The Role of Media in Society and Introduction to NewsgatheringSecond year: Social Issues in JournalismThird year: News Now (daily website production course) and Specialized Content (beat.
• Introduced social media marketing as a topic causing traffic to the students' journalism website http://skedline.com to quadruple

Luton, United Kingdom

• Department of Journalism & Communications
• Co-creator of MA in International Journalism
• Course Leader: BA Magazine Journalism, BA Multimedia Journalism, BA Journalism and PR
• Undergraduate Unit Leader: Magazine Publishing, Print Production and Design, Online Publishing, Essential Skills
• Masters Unit Leader: Multiplatform Journalism
• Teaching undergraduates and masters students across the division, including supervision of final year portfolios, BA and MA dissertations and three PhD students.

Leicester

Designing and delivering MA-level lectures and leading MA seminar groups on media depictions of crime, digital cultures and news management, communication and social problems and research methods.Supervising MA and BA dissertations and MA group work projects.

London, United Kingdom

Part time position training research students and faculty web publishing and the use of Office applications

Principally supporting the EU Kids Online project, a €2.5 million pan-European effort. Aided the development of the project’s online group work infrastructure using Google Apps and helped provide technical specifications for an online research repository for the UK Council for Child Internet Safety.

Researching personal weblogging through interviews with LiveJournal and Blogger users and researching social network software use through interviews with MySpace users.

Providing strategic web consultancy, virtual community building advice and training - principally to the public and not for profit sectors. Projects during this period included:Researching the e-Envoy's report "E-enabling the Voluntary and Community sector", which was subsequently referenced by the Treasury and by voluntary organizations and academics.

Responsible for the creation and development of an internet community based around NOW's TV programming which was streamed and broadcast through digital satellite, and its web content aimed at global broadband users.* Wrote specification for the technology platform and 'social infrastructure' required to start and foster the growth of a virtual community..

• Led in a variety of roles for a UK-based technology incubator. Achievements included
• Managing a development team in the UK and Minsk to deliver NewsScape, an online news headline aggregation service.
• Coordinating an enterprise-wide PR strategy with the MD and board management.

London, United Kingdom

Wrote primarily about the internet and technology in business, law andsociety for a variety of websites, magazines and newspapers both in the UKand abroad, including the Daily Telegraph, AOL, Salon and The IndustryStandard. Also worked for ITN’s online site as a duty journalist.

Produced news stories containing audio, video and internet links for the most popular news website in Europe. Our team was commended for its work covering the Omagh bombing.

I was responsible for the launch, management and editorial content of its website, managing a team of three. One of the first major media websites in the UK (in 1995) the site was profitable from launch and quickly became one of the ten most popular UK sites, winning several awards.

London, United Kingdom

Founded, wrote and edited a new, 50 page editorial section - Cutting Edge. Created and wrote the first Internet column in a mainstream UK computer magazine and created a website for the magazine–one of the first in the UK.

Phd, Media And Communications

My thesis was: ‘As if nobody’s reading’: The imagined audience and socio-technical biases in personal blogging practice in the UK. It.

Msc, New Media, Information And Society, Distinction

Dissertation was Missing the grassroots? Factors shaping the political use of the Internet among UK activists supervised by Professor Nick.

Ba, English, Gpa: 3.0

Courses taken also included Sociology, Computer Science and Economics.