Sarah Dea Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Creating and curating content, including still photos and short-form video for web and social media platforms.Using skills as a former journalist, story teller and strategist to create compelling, engaging and innovative social content, digital content and campaigns.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Supporting the development and production of engaging visual/digital content to enhance awareness about Senators and the work of the Upper Chamber.

• Carrying out assignments under direct contract with editorial, commercial and corporate clients• Regular contributor to @everydaymiddleeast, an Instagram feed with over 143,000 followers and post reach up to 2 million viewers• Commissioned to photograph 2015 Dubai edition of Burberry Art of the Trench in the Middle East, one of the British brand’s biggest and most successful digital campaigns. The microsite has received over 24.8 million pageviews to date• Created original content that has reached the front page of Reddit.com, a website that receives over 200 million unique visitors a month, accounting for 7.86 billion monthly pageviews• Featured on the Instagram blog and discovery page (United States territory) on February 22, 2015• Guest starred in the March 2014 episode of The Traveling Photographer with David Hobby, aka Strobist.com, named one of the “25 Best Blogs of 2010” by Time Magazine.• Past clients include : Burberry, Etihad Airways, M&C Saatchi, Getty Images, ABC News, IWC Schaffhausen, Huffington Post, LA Times, Daily Mail, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Postmedia News, European Pressphoto Agency, Luxury, Ultratravel, M Magazine, Fashion Magazine, Expressions Magazine by Acura, Inc. Magazine, RBC Royal Bank, Air Canada, National Film Board of Canada, CBC Ottawa, CTV Ottawa, SAW Video

Ottawa, Canada Area

Dubai

• Created original visual content and multimedia packages for thenational.ae, resulting in over 33 million page views per year, and for the print edition of The National, the UAE’s national newspaper with a circulation of 65,000• Guest speaker at Gulf Photo Plus Slidefest 15, 18/02/15 at Dubai Knowledge Village• Edited and packaged stories with multimedia, SEO and social media best practices to grow traffic and engage readers, organically reaching over 394,000 facebook followers, over 785,000 twitter followers and over 30,200 Instagram followers• 2015 - Award of excellence for photography/single feature photo in The Best of News Design, 36th Edition• 2014 - Winner in the Communication Arts 55th annual juried Photography Competition• 2014 - Recipient of Applied Arts Award, Photojournalism Photography x3• 2014 - Featured in the National's Six Years exhibition, Gulf Photo Plus Gallery, Dubai, UAE• 2013 - Recipient of Applied Arts Award, Editorial Photography and Photojournalism Photography x2

Toronto, Canada Area

• Created visual content for 3.9 million weekly print readers and 6.5 million multiplatform digital readers for Canada's national newspaper • Assigned and commissioned photographers and videographers for assignments• Worked together with design team to determine the creative direction of photo and video shoots to complement stories.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for the company’s internal communications activities (including the company intranet).• Coordinated the company’s social media and multimedia presence, and assisted in developing communication strategies and programs.• GigPark was acquired by Canpages, the largest independent directories publisher in Canada (since acquired by Yellow Pages Group). In less than one year, Canpages expanded its reach from 2 million to 8 million homes and businesses across the country, and its website Canpages.ca received more than 3.5 million unique visitors every month with their local search requests

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for photographing, editing, and presenting newsworthy images and multimedia packages for web or print for next-day publication in Canada's highest circulation paper.• Conducted research, investigated news possibilities, interviewed individuals, and created useful social networks.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Headed pilot podcasting program initiative : developed concept , researched, wrote scripts, produced podcast media for a 12-episode series bolstering NRC departmental research projects.• Responsible for corporate website redesign, including various internal and external communications products such a press releases and direct communication with clients.Worked on corporate website redesign and various internal and external communications products• Actively managed social media campaigns and accounts. Created/provided daily content on emerging social platforms• Proposed original, timely, and innovative stories for web content for different departmental research projects• Stayed current on new social media trends, platforms and analytics, always looking to improve upon existing methods and workflow.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Liaised and served as main point of contact with grant-holders to finalize granting process.• Developed expertise in grant-writing process to cultural agencies.

Diploma, Photojournalism

Bachelor, Journalism, Minor In Film Studies, High Honours