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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.