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about blake eligh |
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Blake Eligh is freelance journalist
and editor. At 16, she wrote a weekly high school column for her hometown newspaper.
Since then, she has covered diverse beats including stories about provincial
growth plans, home renovation, etiquette for
business travelers and over 200 restaurant reviews. Blake is a regular
contributor to Bankrate.ca, where she writes about
financial and consumer affairs. She is also editorial
assistant to food writer Lucy
Waverman where she edits, researches and (best of all)
taste-tests Lucy’s recipes. She assisted with Lucy’s 2004 cookbook A Matter of Taste, and is currently
working on Lucy’s upcoming book which goes to print in 2009. As a reporter for
Toronto-based urban affairs journal Novae Res Urbis, Blake covered planning
and development issues in Her stories have appeared
in newspapers (The Globe and Mail, Guelph
Mercury), magazines (Canadian Geographic, ParentsCanada, Squeeze
Magazine, Shameless Magazine, Cat Basics), websites (TorontoLife.com, Bankrate.ca, Food Network Canada), and electronic publications (Novae Res Urbis, OACA Newsletter). She is a graduate of the
magazine stream of Ryerson’s journalism program, and
previously spent two years as an English major at Bishop’s University in Blake’s non-journalism
work experience is varied. She has slung salad for a health food restaurant
chain, answered phones at a sewage treatment plant, provided care to both
geriatric patients and needy kids, transcribed a rally car racing television
series for translation into Korean, and coordinated the production of giant
mining trucks. As the perennial summer
student, she also issued building permits for the City of Blake is also an avid photographer, gardener and cook however she always returns to journalism because she loves a good story. |
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