Freelance lifestyle and entertainment journalist
Appeared on ANOKHI Media, Oct. 15, 2013 Twitter may have taken over your computer, your cell phone and possibly your social life but soon, this 140-character social network will be infiltrating your living room as well. Earlier this week, Twitter announced its new partnership with Comcast, the leading pay-TV provider in the U.S., bring tweeting […]
Appeared on ANOKHI Media, Oct. 9, 2013 When it comes to starting a new business, entrepreneur Nisha Amin is proving that sometimes thinking big means baking small. Located in downtown Toronto, Amin’s Bite Bar marries the concept of bite-sized dessert and festive cocktails – and so far, it’s a marriage that works. “We’re all about […]
Appeared on ANOKHI Media, Sept. 19, 2013 Parenting magazines are getting a dash of spice courtesy of former journalist and mother-of-two, Anjum Choudhry Nayyar. The founder of masalamommas.com online magazine is on a mission to foster meaningful discussions among moms in the South Asian communities. Anjum Choudhry Nayyar with her husband and kids/STORIA PHOTOGRAPHY via […]
Appeared on ANOKHI Media, Sept. 13, 2013 If you’ve ever purchased physical books from Amazon, you’ll soon be able to buy those same titles for your Kindle at virtually low cost or free. Amazon calls the new initiative Kindle MatchBook, and in many ways it resembles what the company’s AutoRip program did for music; buy […]
This was the first-ever video response created for CBC’s Generation Why magazine. This contribution was featured on the top of CBC’s Facebook page the day it was published. Appeared online in CBC’s Generation Why magazine, April 19, 2013 My cousin was so close to the second explosion at the Boston Marathon that the building she was in […]
Coverage of Masalamommas’ Tweetup event at Bite Bar, completed using original reporting and Storify. Appeared online for Masalamommas, March 7, 2013 Usually it’s considered rude to be on your phone during a networking event, but at Masalamommas’ latest Tweetup event, tweeting was not only common, it was encouraged. A tweetup is a real-life event that is organized through Twitter, or […]
Appeared online and in print for the Globe and Mail, Oct. 22, 2012 High-school students face big life choices on their way to the coveted cap and gown ceremony, but even after the diplomas are doled out and the hats are thrown, graduates still have major decisions to make. Aside from selecting where they go to […]
Created using Storify and multimedia content. Appeared online for the Ryersonian, Oct. 17, 2012 Last night was round two of the U.S. presidential debates and both candidates came out swinging. The debate took place at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York and, this time, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney weren’t just sparring back and forth. An […]
Created this infographic using Piktochart and original research. Appeared online at TalentEgg.ca, 2012 The job market for engineers has traditionally been fairly stable and reliable, much like the bridges and cities that these professionals help build. But with the recession weighing hard on student hires, many engineering students were left wondering whether their profession would hold up or […]
Ishani Nath 