Wendy Graves Email & Phone Number

Brampton, Ont.

Develop, produce, manage and post engaging and informative content for Canon Canada’s three distinct audiences: consumers, businesses, and professional photographers and videographers

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

* Develop, produce and manage content for national and international hockey events, including team, player and community written and video features * Help develop and execute social media content strategies for national and international events, teams, programs and special initiatives * Develop and produce written and video content to promote grassroots.

Toronto

• Produced fresh content on variety of health- and life-related issues (including fitness, nutrition, preventive medicine, emotional well-being, finance, pets, travel, technology, parenting, family and community) within.
• Worked with writers, copy editors and art directors, improving readability of stories and creating unique content for our target audience
• Conceived, developed and edited story on perils of cyberbullying that was nominated for 2013 National Magazine Award
• Proactively wrote stories for the print publication as well as stories and slide shows for the website that spoke to the latest trends or gave fresh takes on popular subjects
• Wrote weekly blog post on pets, frequently engaging readers in dialogue and facilitating online contests to draw in more visitors and increase user engagement
• Developed and produced fresh story ideas as both editor and writer as part of online team at CanadianLiving.com that won Canadian Society of Magazine Editor’s 2013 website of the year

Toronto

• Led day-to-day activities of the copy department, including assigning stories, coordinating with freelancers and regularly updating with my staff as well as other departments
• Ensured accurate copy – including proper grammar, syntax, spelling, punctuation, format and style – on deadline for 22 magazine issues a year
• Maintained high standards on all copy throughout production cycles, minimizing monetary cost of changes at end stages
• Oversaw freelance fact-checking budget for Homemakers, staying within budget each issue

Toronto

• Ensured accurate copy to magazines’ standards each month
• Assisted on fact checking and copy editing of special interest publications
• Acted as copy chief and led short-staffed department during the October 2005 relaunch of Canadian Living

Toronto

• Collaborated with team members to create standardized style guide for two magazines
• Developed checklist system for every article that was adopted by the department head as standardized list for all stories
• Ensured accurate copy to magazines’ standards each month
• Assisted with fact checking to help keep stories moving and on deadline

Toronto, Canada Area

Certificate, Book And Magazine Publishing

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English