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• Converting research insights into stakeholder and public reports designed to draw attention to gaps in government policy and technology industry accountability as it relates to online child protection;• Using research insights to help drive and guide communication and media relations strategies for the organization, including responding to and pitching media requests, writing press releases and blogs;• Developing and publishing organizational positions on various public policy questions in domestically and abroad, including responding to calls for public submissions on various provincial, federal and international legislative initiatives and/or bills; • Reviewing and monitoring domestic and foreign policy related to the technology industry and social media to help guide organizational decision making;• Guiding a team of researchers in OSINT research needs, including on the Dark web to identify emerging trends in online harms.

• Create rich visualizations through data interpretation and analysis, using multiple data sources;• Work closely with areas of the organization to understand their analytics needs and helping develop metrics to help deliver actionable insights;• Produce research reports and briefing notes for use internally and by external stakeholders.

• Produced highly researched and award-winning public-interest investigative news articles for local and national audiences;• Ongoing monitoring government and private sector data and events to identify opportunities to report on information with high degrees of public interest, including data related to elections, labour force, occupational health and safety, administrative penalties, etc.• Role involved advancing data-driven journalism techniques across newsrooms through the use of web scraping, automation, computer programming, GIS analyses, election mapping and data visualizations. Core data science toolset included Python packages such as Pandas, GeoPandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, BeautifulSoup, Selenium and other open source tools such as QGIS, PostGIS, SQL, OpenRefine, Tabula, Datawrapper;• Provided mentorship, training and support to CBC journalists across Canada, helping them leverage data science techniques to add value to their news reporting;• Professional understanding of obtaining records held by public bodies through the use of provincial and federal freedom of information laws (e.g. ATIP, FIPPA, etc.)

General assignment French-language news reporter for web, radio and television broadcasts. Dedicated assignments included municipal political reporting.

• Developed internal communications plans in collaboration with human resource leadership, including senior executive staff presentations;• Developed, wrote external communication products such as press releases, newsletters, internal media speaking points;• Managed French-language media relations; • Lead project manager and writer for the agency’s annual report;• Managed and produced an external agriculture-focused newsletter with a Canada-wide distribution;• Produced and edited corporate videos for social media.

• Developed external communications products for national-wide sales consultants and financial planners;• Worked with internal compliance teams to ensure marketing materials in the field met Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada (MFDA) and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) regulatory standard.

• Researched marketing, advertising and financial advisor compensation trends in the Canadian financial industry using open-source information and techniques.