Monthly Archives: November 2009

Kirk LaPointe at Kwantlen Polytechnic University

By Lesley | Published: November 19, 2009

I attended a talk given by The Vancouver Sun’s managing editor, Kirk Lapointe at school the other day. He spoke about the future of journalism and public relations. One of the most compelling things he said that stayed with me was that the era of making a career out of journalism for 30, 40 years [...]

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Eating Healthy on a Student Budget

By Lesley | Published: November 12, 2009

About a week ago, @AndreaWoo contacted me about a piece she was doing for the Metro Newspaper. Her piece was about eating healthy while on a student budget, and since I run the Starving College Girl website, my twitter friend @hosea24hours thought I would be a good fit for her to interview. The piece came [...]

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Magazine Spreads

By Lesley | Published: November 6, 2009

For one of my courses, PR 1140 – Computer Skills, we’re learning how to use Adobe InDesign. One of the assignments was to do a 10 page magazine spread. Since one of the requirements was to use high resolution (read: 300+dpi) pictures and I was feeling a little lazy, I used widescreen desktop wallpapers. Want [...]

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