About Global News Online

Global News Online offers Canadians from coast to coast a host of news and information – from breaking news in their community 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 umbrella national site, GlobalNews.ca, features stories, analysis and deep, engaging content about issues in Canada and abroad.

We leverage the strength of Shaw Media – 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 the director of online content for Global News 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 news sites as Global News Online's managing editor. His career spans both the online and on-air worlds of news, and he’s pioneered many of Global News’ online efforts.

Previously, David worked for six years at Global Toronto, where he helped create and produce several of the station'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, and the newscast's Facebook page.

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, backup 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 also took on the responsibility of helping to feed many colleagues with his desk drawer full of snacks - a tradition he continues today in 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 newscasts from 2007 to 2009; and a producer of Global Sports from 2001 to 2006.

In 2004, Ryan also wrote and produced a national special, Return to Augusta, the story of Mike Weir’s Masters triumph.

He has a journalism degree from Ryerson University and a Bachelor of Science from Queen’s University.

Randi Druzin has been a producer at GlobalNews.ca since February 2009, and has worked for newspapers, websites and television in her 17 years as a journalist.

She started her career 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.

She attended the University of Western Ontario, where she earned a political science degree. She also 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 the sports department and newsroom as a writer, editor and producer.

The self-taught web junkie helped create www.gotorontofc.com, one of Toronto FC's first online communities and a leader in Canadian soccer news.

John is 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 Global, Heather interned at CBC’s London bureau, and has also worked as a reporter for FASHION Magazine.

She 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

Heather also graduated from 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.

Prior to Global BC, he held the role of Canwest's communications specialist in Winnipeg, and also spent three years working for canada.com in both Vancouver and Winnipeg.

Peter is a graduate of the Broadcast Journalism program at BCIT and grew up in Nanaimo, B.C.

Karyn Mulcahy has produced online news for Global Edmonton since late 2008.

In addition to GlobalTVEdmonton.com, Karyn manages Global Edmonton's wildly popular Facebook page, which has a whopping 23,000 fans (and growing). She also condenses news updates into 140 characters or less for the station's 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 city's 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. She has also freelanced for various publications, including the real estate magazine Home by Design and One80, a community newspaper from a youth angle.

Irene gained her first real-life journalism experience at 17, writing for a local trade newspaper, The Business Times.

She 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.

She attended the University of Calgary and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), obtaining a degree in communications studies, and a diploma in television studies.

Ashley Terry joined Global News Online in 2008, as a national producer for Global's federal election website. Before Global, she was a senior writer for CBCSports.ca, and covered the 2008 Beijing Summer Games for CBC’s Olympic website.

Ashley earned a political science and sociology degree at the University of Toronto before completing the post-graduate new media program at Sheridan College.