2010/2011
Jonathan Whitehead graduated
Toronto Star
Year-long interns
Kate Allen is happy to be back home
in Toronto after finishing her master
of journalism at UBC. She also has a
B.A. in Classics — she spent 10 years
studying Latin. Kate spent the summer as
a national reporter for The Globe and Mail
and previously worked for the Globe’s
B.C. bureau. Recently, she travelled to
Thailand to film a documentary for PBS
Frontline about shrimp farming. She
has also worked for Toronto Life, the
Vancouver Sun, B.C. Business magazine,
and the Tyee.
Allison Cross spent the past year
chasing breaking news and reporting
from Parliament Hill at Canwest News
Service in Ottawa. Before that she
was an intern at the Vancouver Sun
and a community news reporter and
photographer at the Nanaimo Daily News.
While doing her master of journalism
at UBC, Allison traveled to China and
Hong Kong to help produce an Emmy-
nominated documentary that aired on
PBS Frontline/World.
Amy Dempsey is back after an intense
12 weeks as a Star summer reporting
intern. She is a graduate of Carleton’s MJ
program and has reported for the Ottawa
Citizen, CBC Radio’s Mainstreet and CP.
Amy has interned at Contact FM in Kigali,
where she spent her off-hours learning
how to dance like a cow and finding
adventure in the Rwandan countryside.
Last June, she trekked across Ghana to
investigate child slavery in the country’s
fishing industry for her multimedia
master’s research project.
Chloe Fedio began reporting at the
campus newspaper at the University
of Alberta while completing a B.A. in
political science. Since then she has
worked as a news assistant at Global
Edmonton, a chase producer at CBC
Newsworld, a radio host for a current
affairs program in Rwanda and as
a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen and
Montreal Gazette. This spring, she
produced a multimedia website about
sustainable agricultural practices in
sub-Saharan Africa as part of her MJ at
Carleton.
Jenni Dunning is a reporter at heart,
loves multimedia journalism and working
with the web. She joins the Star after
working at the Hamilton Spectator as
a general assignment reporter. She
also managed thespec.com website on
weekends. Before that, Jenni worked
at CBCSports.ca and The London Free
Press. She has a blog at nowherewithyou.
wordpress.com. Jenni has a master of
journalism from Western.
from the Graphic Design Program at
DESIGN/GRAPHICS
Fanshawe College in 2004 then went
into publishing with an educational book
design house in North York. In 2005, he
moved to an academic publisher based
in downtown Toronto. He also maintained
a strong and dedicated client base as
a freelance graphic designer. He has
a broad range of work experience that
includes print, branding and web-based
projects.
Jayme Poisson is excited to be
continuing at the Star after the summer.
REPORTING
Born and raised in Toronto she studied
political science at McGill. She has
worked for a documentary film production
company in New York and wrote for
Hello! Canada magazine. Last fall she
began a master of journalism degree at
Carleton where she had the chance to
travel to Nepal to make a documentary
about fallen womb, a debilitating condition
affecting 600,000 women in the fragile
South Asian country.
Dan Robson returns after spending
two summers with the Star, first in
the radio room and then as a reporting
intern. He holds a master of
journalism degree from Carleton
University, and did his undergrad and
B.Ed. at Queen’s. As a journalist and
teacher he has worked around the world,
in places such as Ireland, Guyana and
Rwanda. Previously he worked with CBC
Sports and The Canadian Press.
Nicki Thomas is a recent graduate of
the master of journalism program
at Carleton University. She moved east
from Edmonton, where she worked as
a general assignment reporter at the
Sun. She spent this past summer at the
Ottawa Citizen, where she was awarded
the Diane King Stuemer Fellowship. She
used the award to travel to Iqaluit and
report on HIV/AIDS and sexual health
among Inuit.
Cynthia Vukets is a Winnipegger
who has lived in Kitchener, Ottawa,
rural Quebec, Atlantic Canada, Europe,
Rwanda and Kenya. A Carleton
journalism grad, Cynthia worked in print
and TV for three years before arriving
at the Star. She enjoys cooking, yoga,
and going to the cottage. Her most
embarrassing journalism moment was
nearly getting run over by a herd of goats
while shooting a standup in Nairobi in
front of about 50 curious Kenyan
onlookers.
Sarah Millar joins the Star on
the web team. Throughout her (short)
WEB
career, Sarah has worked both in print
and online at papers big (the National
Post), medium (the Hamilton Spectator)
and small (the Kincardine News — a
community weekly). She blogs, tweets
and Facebooks, but can also carry on a
conversation in real-life.