Title: Play by Play – 2013 BC AAA Swimming Championships
Date: July 7, 2013
Original Source: UBC/BC AAA Swim
Synopsis: Here’s a strange one – I was the MC/live play-by-play person for the British Columbia AAA Swimming Championships, located at UBC. It was fun, and a really goo experience, if not a little out of my element.
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Title: Pilot social media course profits from journalism-business crossover
Date: June 26, 2013
Original Source: The Thunderbird
Synopsis: The J-school I attend commissioned me to write two features for the school’s website for classes I didn’t take (no conflict of interest). This is the second, on a new business-journalism collaboration course on social media.
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Title: UBC women’s volleyball welcomes Nicola Laniuk
Date: June 21, 2013
Original Source: UBC Thunderbirds
Synopsis: This was a feature I wrote about incoming UBC women’s volleyball player Nicola Laniuk, a highly touted local recruit.
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Title: Reporting in Indigenous Communities Course Means More Than Just Storytelling
Date: June 19, 2013
Original Source: The Thunderbird
Synopsis: The J-school I attend commissioned me to write two features for the school’s website for classes I didn’t take (no conflict of interest). This is the first, on UBC SOJ’s RIIC course.
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Title: Molly Gosnell: A Thunderbird Journey
Date: May 1, 2013
Original Source: UBC Thunderbirds
Synopsis: This was a feature I wrote about UBC women’s softball player Molly Gosnell and her father Dave, who is both a super-fan and a large financial supporter of the team.
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Title: T-Birds to challenge for AII softball title
Date: April 30, 2013
Original Source: UBC Thunderbirds
Synopsis: This was a preview of the AII conference regional tournament that the UBC women’s softball team played in.
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Title: UBC split first two games in Tucson
Date: March 25, 2013
Original Source: UBC Thunderbirds
Synopsis: This was a preview of a 10-game home stand for the UBC women’s softball team.
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Title: Vancouver seeks local grads to fuel tech growth
Date: March 20, 2013
Original Source: The Thunderbird
Synopsis: Sometimes you’ve gotta go outside your comfort zone. For this term-end school piece, I teamed up with Jeremy Cothran to take a look at the divide between new grad supply and experienced developer demand in Vancouver’s tech industry. Note: This article will be nominated for a 2013 COPA.
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Title: T-Birds wrap up Arizona trip
Date: March 17, 2013
Original Source: UBC Thunderbirds
Synopsis: This was a game report from the women’s softball tournament UBC played in in Tucson.
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Title: Two more shutouts for UBC softball
Date: March 15, 2013
Original Source: UBC Thunderbirds
Synopsis: This was a game report from the women’s softball tournament UBC played in in Tucson.
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Blake Murphy Sports Writing 