2010/2011
Wendy Gillis is pleased to be back at
Toronto Star
Radio room interns
Alexandra Macaulay
Abdelwahab is in her fourth year of
journalism at Ryerson. She interned at The
Gazette in Montreal this summer as an
online editor. In May, she spent a month
at Global News in Toronto as a health
intern. This semester, she’ll be heading
off to London, England where she will be
interning at CBC.
Tamara Baluja is back for her
second stint in the Radio Room after a
summer at The Province in Vancouver.
She has worked as a reporter with CFRB
1010 and is an editor for the South Asian
magazine, Anokhi. Tamara has a BA in
English and History from U of T and is
entering her final year of journalism at
Centennial College. She speaks Hindi,
Punjabi and Urdu.
Gloria Er-Chua is returning to the
Radio Room after a four-month stint this
summer. She just graduated from Queen’s
University, where she was news editor
of the campus paper, the Journal. She
is completing her French certificate at
Ryerson University. She’s worked at the
Kingston Whig-Standard and interned at a
magazine in Quebec.
Liam Casey is a graduate student
in the Ryerson journalism program and
was a reporting intern with the Star this
summer. He studied biology at Queen’s
and wrote a manuscript under the tutelage
of Paul Quarrington at the Humber School
for Writers. He is the editor of the winter
2011 Ryerson Review of Journalism and
has interned at the Ottawa Citizen and
Toronto Life.
Christine Dobby is entering second
year of Ryerson’s master of journalism
program but she still remembers a couple
of things about the legal system from her
time practising family law for two years
before returning to school. She spent the
summer in Saint John, New Brunswick
working as a business and provincial
reporter at the Telegraph-Journal.
Daniela Germano is in her final
semester of the Ryerson journalism
program. In 2007, she traveled through the
Iberian Peninsula and worked for a golf
magazine. She has also interned at two
community papers, the Town Crier and
Vaughan Today. She was the arts editor
for The Ryersonian and an assistant editor
and copy editor for Ryerson’s feminist
magazine, McClung’s.
the Star after a summer internship. Wendy
has been a reporter for the Saskatoon
StarPhoenix and the central bureau chief
with Canadian University Press. She
was also the editor-in-chief of The Sheaf,
the University of Saskatchewan student
newspaper. She is entering her second
year of the master of journalism program
at Ryerson.
Noel Grzetic is entering her second
year of the post-grad journalism program
at Humber College. Prior to journalism
she studied psychology at the University
of Guelph and was involved in autism
research at Sick Kids Hospital. Born in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Noel moved
to Toronto in the 1980s. She is fluent in
French and Spanish.
Hayley Kelman is a York University
graduate and currently attending Seneca’s
journalism broadcast program. She spent
the past two years living in the U.K.
interning for The London Weekly focusing
mostly on entertainment and pop culture.
Carys Mills will start her final year
of Ryerson’s journalism program in the
fall by interning at The Globe and Mail
before joining the Star’s Radio Room. This
summer she worked at The Windsor Star
as a reporting intern. Last summer she
worked as an intern at the Queen’s Park
Press Gallery and will be graduating with a
politics minor.
Emmanuel Samoglou is in his
final year of the post-graduate journalism
program at Humber College. Having
previously studied finance and marketing
at Ryerson University, he plans to take his
diverse background and deep interest in
politics abroad where he hopes to report,
write, and photograph from the world’s
emerging hot spots.
Liem Vu is a MJ student at Ryerson. He
has reported for The Varsity, The National
Post and The Globe and Mail. He was the
lead singer of a barbershop quartet called
The TemptAsians. After an amicable split,
he got a degree in Criminology at U of T.
As a journalist, his experience includes
kettling during the G20 and a one-day stint
as Bob Geldof’s transcriber.
Madeleine White is a Radio Room
vet. She has also worked for a Liberal
leadership contender and federal MP.
When not in the Radio Room, she is
completing her Master of Journalism
degree at Ryerson and her Major
Research Project — a multimedia project
profiling women running in Toronto’s
municipal election. Maddie is fluent in
French.