Amy L.

Dempsey
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Tel: 416.220.8527
Toronto, Ont. *** ***
dempsey.amylynn@gmail.com

REPORTING EXPERIENCE

Toronto Star – Reporter 2010 -

present
Toronto, ON
• Employed full-time as a general assignment reporter for the city and A-sections of
Canada’s highest-circulation newspaper

The Canadian Press – Reporting Intern

2010
Ottawa, ON
• Two national newspaper bylines in two weeks, multiple stories published in print and
online across the country
• Pitched stories, jumped at daily news opportunities, filed and updated developing
stories throughout the day, collected video and audio for the web and broadcast wire

CBC Radio – Associate Producer Intern

2009
Halifax, NS
• Pitched stories, produced and edited feature interviews, chased and booked guests for
Mainstreet, an afternoon news and current affairs show
• Produced a talk tape about second-hand holiday shopping, conducted multiple
interviews aired over two-week period, chased and booked guests, collected tape of
bizarre holiday stories for annual holiday special

Contact FM – Reporter
2009
Kigali, Rwanda
• Worked collaboratively with multilingual reporters to produce daily scheduled newscasts
in English, French and Kinyarwanda
• Pitched stories, conducted interviews and filed daily news stories by 6 p.m. each day

Ottawa Citizen – Reporting Intern

2009
Ottawa, ON
• Wrote daily news and feature stories on strict deadlines for the city, business and style
sections
• Pitched stories, took on assignments and filed to the web

STUDENT REPORTING EXPERIENCE

Midweek – Reporter, Producer, Audio Editor, Host
2010
Ottawa, ON
• Produced and reported for an weekly current affairs radio show transmitted on Ottawa’s
CKCU and online
• Chased and packaged stories on tight deadlines, produced short radio documentaries
and feature interviews

Capital News Online – Reporter, Editor, Multimedia Producer

2009
Ottawa, ON
• Reporter for two of five fall 2009 issues; both articles achieved top story placement on
capitalnews.ca
• As editor led story meetings, generated ideas, gave assignments, guided reporter-
producer teams, thoroughly copy-edited and re-focused multiple stories

Dalhousie Gazette – Reporter 2006 –

2008
Halifax, NS
• Pitched stories, attended meetings, covered campus and community events for
Dalhousie University’s weekly student newspaper
• Wrote features and reported for arts and culture and opinion sections

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Carleton School of Journalism – Teaching Assistant

2009 – 2010
Ottawa, ON
• Selected as teaching assistant for the first-year master of journalism introduction to
print, radio and TV reporting class
• Advised and guided reporters, critiqued story ideas, critiqued and graded assignments
• Directed reporting teams through the process of producing an online publication, radio
newscasts and TV newscasts

Rwanda Initiative – Research and Communications Assistant

2008 – 2009
Ottawa, ON
• Compiled a database of print, online and broadcast news coverage
• Assisted in the planning, organization and promotion of Living With, a photo exhibit on
HIV/AIDS in Rwanda that travelled to various Canadian cities

EDUCATION

Master of Journalism – Carleton University

2010
• Bill McWhinney Prize for International Development Journalism (2009)
• Andrew McIntosh Award in Investigative Enterprise (2009)
 • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2009)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate
Scholarship (2008 – 2009)

Bachelor of Arts in English literature (with honours) – Dalhousie

University 2008
• Dalhousie Renewable Entrance Scholarship (2004 – 2008)
• Dean’s list (2004 – 2008)
• George Burris Study in England Scholarship (2007)

PERSONAL

• Avid traveller – semester abroad at the University of Hull, UK; human trafficking
research in San Francisco, California; human trafficking field research in Ghana; radio
internship in Rwanda; travel throughout Europe and East Africa
• Before journalism – worked as a server in a resort on Cape Breton Island, nannied
for a family in Halifax, tutored a young man who has a physical and mental disability,
dipped cones at Dairy Queen
• Special reporting interests – public health, technology, media, social justice
issues, generational trends

***References available upon request.