Thinking about hiring Kate?
Apart from winning the 2006 award for Best Magazine Food Feature Reporting from the U.S.-based Association of Food Journalists, her journalistic credentials include:
- Arts and entertainment reporter and critic, Calgary Herald
- Contributing editor, Chatelaine
- Editor, Avenue Homes
- Contributing editor, City Palate
- Reporter, The Province, Richmond News, North Shore News
- Newspaper and magazine columnist (books, cocktails, humour, parenting, business, food): Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Avenue, National Post, Alberta Parent, Business Edge, City Palate, North Shore News
- Her freelance articles have appeared in: Chatelaine, Readers Digest, Georgia Straight, Calgary Straight, Western Living, Wine Access, New Jersey Life, Olympic Review, National Post, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, City Palate, Edmonton Palate, Western Living, IKEA Space, Melbourne Palate, enRoute
- Top contributor (11 articles) to the book Best of City Palate
- Co-author, The Lobster Kids' Guide to Exploring Calgary
- Freelance editing gigs for Chatelaine, Whitecap Books, Georgia Straight, EAT
Kate's corporate credentials include:
- Speeches, reports, articles and news releases for VANOC, Suncor, Petro-Canada, Nova Chemicals, BC Power, Canada Mortgage and Housing, the North Shore Health Board, Langara College, Sauder School of Business
- Massive report on lasting legacies of North American Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (VANOC), including the final report on legacies of the Vancouver Games
- Writing story leads for international journalists at the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
- Contributing to the official program of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games on the topic of Aboriginal participation, and writing mini-biographies of great Canadian Aboriginal athletes for a VANOC project with the Aboriginal Sport Circle
Watch for Kate:
- Every Sunday in the North Shore News
- Writing about Suncor Energy in its infocus magazine
- Writing about Vancouver's St. George's School in its annual report
- Editing the fall schedule for Cookbook Company Cooks' Cooking School
- Copy editing City Palate magazine
- Writing about the wonders of O'ahu on the re-launch of Westjet Vacations' website
- Writing about jerk in Up! magazine
- Writing about Bellingham, Washington, in an upcoming issue of City Palate
- Writing about the wacky Fremont Festival in Seattle, Washington for ???
- In the greeting card copy (!) for McFads' new Punch Cards