About Global News Online
Global News Online offers Canadians from coast to coast a host of news and information – from breaking news in their town or city to deep engaging content that puts complex world issues in perspective. Our 11 local sites provide up-to-the-minute community-based news, weather and information, while our new umbrella national site features stories, analysis and deep, engaging content about issues in Canada and abroad.
We leverage the strength of Canada’s largest news organization – Canwest – to tell our stories in ways that make a difference: through video, text, photographs and interactive features. And we deliver those stories to Canadians wherever and whenever they want: through the web, mobile devices, email alerts, RSS feeds, and the emerging world of social media.
GLOBAL NEWS ONLINE STAFF
Andrew Lundy has been Director of Global News Online since 2008, and has spent more than half of his 20-year journalism career in the online world. He was an award-winning newspaper reporter for The Standard, in St. Catharines, Ontario, and the Financial Post, before moving to CBC as a web producer for CBC-TV's Marketplace, and later created CBC.ca's Consumer zone. He moved to CBC Sports Online in 2000 as its senior producer, where he remained until 2007, when he joined Microsoft as MSN.ca’s editor-in-chief.
Andrew studied graduate journalism at the University of Western Ontario, where he received his political science degree, and has also studied graduate international affairs at Carleton University.
David Skok oversees the network's 11 local news sites as Global News Online’s senior producer. His career spans both the online and on-air worlds of news, and he’s pioneered many of Global News’ online efforts, including helping launch the first interactive local newscast in Canada. Previously, David worked for six years at Global Toronto, where he helped create and produce several of Global Toronto's news programs before becoming the station’s first online producer. He has worked with ABC News in Washington on its iconic Nightline program, and with CHUM Radio in Toronto.
David is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Ryerson’s Journalism program where he was awarded the Joe Perlove scholarship as best graduating student.
Herman Chau has been Global National's online news producer since the fall of 2008, where he maintains GlobalNational.com, as well as the newscast's Facebook and Twitter pages. He made the move to Global National from Edmonton's most-watched news source, Global Edmonton, where he launched his television news career a decade ago, taking on a multitude of jobs: script assistant, news writer, back-up news producer, and then news promotions producer. After becoming Global Edmonton's online news producer in the summer of 2007, Herman helped create the station's immensely popular page on Facebook. He was also responsible for helping feed many co-workers with his drawer full of snacks - a tradition he continues today at the Global National newsroom.
Herman graduated with honours from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology’s Radio & Television program and previously attended Grant MacEwan College.
Ryan Cripps has been Global Toronto's online news producer since March 2009.
He has worn several hats during his time at Global Toronto; he worked as senior producer of the Morning News and producer of the noon and weekend news from 2007 to 2009 and he was a producer of Global Sports from 2001 to 2006. Ryan also wrote and produced a national special, Return to Augusta, the story of Mike Weir’s Masters triumph, in 2004.
He has a journalism degree from Ryerson University and a Bachelor of Science from Queen’s University.
Randi Druzin has been a producer at Global News Online since February 2009, and has worked for newspapers, websites and television in her 17 years as a journalist. She started as a foreign correspondent. Based in the Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998, Randi filed stories to a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and Maclean’s. She returned to Canada in 1998, taking a copy editing and writing job at the National Post, before moving to the CBC in 2002. For the next seven years, she wrote for television and CBC.ca, contributing to CBC Sports Online’s coverage of four Olympic Games. Randi has also written a book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Women in Sports, which was published in 2001.
Randi attended the University of Western Ontario, where she earned a political science degree. She earned a journalism degree from the University of King’s College in Halifax.
John Hadden is Global News Online’s first video producer, responsible for all online video content across the network.
John is a graduate of Niagara College, where he won the Grafiti Award for 'Best on-air TV personality' and a year later hosted the same awards show. After an internship on the nightly Global Sports program in Toronto, he was hired by the station and has worked both in sports and in the newsroom as a writer, editor and producer.
John is also a self-taught web junkie and helped create www.gotorontofc.com, one of Toronto FC's first online communities and a leader in Canadian soccer news. He's also not afraid to use the word 'nerd' when it comes to Star Wars and the Blue Jays.
Heather Loney is the Senior Web Coordinator for Global News Online. Prior to joining Global News, Heather worked as an intern at CBC’s London bureau, and has also worked as a reporter for FASHION Magazine.
Heather is a graduate of Sheridan College’s New Media Journalism program where she was awarded the Canwest Media Journalism Award of Excellence and Sheridan’s Silver Medal for Academic Excellence. She is also a graduate of the University of Guelph, with an honours degree in Philosophy.
Peter Meiszner has been the online news producer for Global BC, British Columbia's most-watched news source, since the summer of 2008, after spending four years on the prairies. Previous to his Global BC work, he held the role of Communications Specialist at Canwest in Winnipeg, and also spent three years working for canada.com in both Vancouver and in Winnipeg.
Peter is a graduate of the Broadcast Journalism program at BCIT and grew up in Nanaimo, B.C. You can find his technology blog, Gadget Guy, on the Global BC website.
Karyn Mulcahy has produced online news for Global Edmonton since late 2008. In addition to the website, Karyn also maintains Global Edmonton's wildly popular Facebook page, and condenses news updates into 140 characters or less for the Twitter page.
Prior to becoming an online producer, Karyn was a video news editor for several years, both at Global Edmonton and CTV Edmonton. She taught herself HTML coding and Photoshop and built websites for fun before catching the TV bug in high school and enrolling in the tlevision program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT).
When she's not online, Karyn enjoys riding her horse Jacob, knitting, taking her dog to the off-leash park and collecting and taking photos with her Lomo cameras.
Irene Ogrodnik joined the Global News Online team in late 2009 as the website coordinator. It's her second stint at Canwest, following her February, 2008 internship at Canada.com, Driving.ca and Working.com, where she worked as an editorial assistant. Prior to joining Global News, Irene wrote a weekly pop culture blog for the entertainment news website andPOP.com. Irene gained her first real-life journalism experience at age 17, writing for a local trade newspaper, The Business Times.
Irene has freelanced for various publications, including the real estate magazine Home by Design and One80 — a community newspaper from a youth angle.
Irene majored in online journalism and graduated with honours from the journalism program at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Nicole Shepherd is Global Calgary’s online news producer, a position she could scarcely imagine holding just a few years ago. While completing her final year of her Communications degree, she was asked where she saw herself in five years. Nicole’s answer was "definitely not in a newsroom!"
Nicole began her career as a multimedia specialist for a small production company and joined Global Calgary in 2006 as an ENG editor, quickly moving on to producer for the Saturday Morning News. In early 2008, an opportunity in online news knocked, and she answered, starting a new phase of her career where she manages Global Calgary’s website, as well as its Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Nicole attended the University of Calgary and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), where she obtained a degree in Communications Studies as well as a diploma in Television studies.
Ashley Terry joined Global News Online in 2008, as a national producer for Global's federal election website. Before coming to Global, she was a senior writer for CBCSports.ca, and covered the 2008 Beijing Summer Games for CBC’s Olympic website.
Ashley completed a political science and sociology degree at the University of Toronto before completing a post-graduate new media program at Sheridan College.
