CBC Radio 3 is a virtual network of digital content delivered to audiences through a suite of award winning web sites, podcasts, and satellite radio network. It's modern style and journalistic approaches represent the best in Canadian music, stories, art and interactivity. R3 records concerts, sessions, and interviews with the best new and emerging artists; covers Canadian culture like no one else; and produces the best music programming anywhere drawing from a web database of over 80,000 user-uploaded tracks called New Music Canada.

At Radio 3 I got to interview a lot of cool people, put together an online film festival and national photography exhibit. I even got to help launch a new Sirius satellite radio network.

Primarily though I produced two special web sites:

The CBC Radio 3 Magazine

The R3 Magazine integrated our interactive/on-air journalism, concert and session recordings, and music from the NMC site. It wasn't really a magazine. It was a web site that acted like a magazine (and had a built in radio). The idea was simple: a cover, some headlines, and a way to turn the page.

Inside each issue was a smart editorial column, a feature Canadian photo set (sprinkled throughout in place of advertising), 6 feature stories (2 music, 4 arts+culture) and a killer 20 song playlist. Of course, there was a table of contents, a masthead, and an archive of back issues.

Tagged, 'Music and Modern Media' the site is fresh, engaging and sometimes challenging. In two and half years R3 produced 105 weekly issues of the magazine and won nearly every prestigious design/broadcast/web award there is.

ROLES:

Key player in the conceptual, creative, editorial, and technical production of the Radio 3 magazine.

Coordinated and developed a national network of contributing freelance writers and photographers.

Researched, pitched and produced feature stories.

Art direction, design and Flash development.

Developed national outreach and special events.

Developed Radio 3 brand and marketing collateral.

120Seconds

This pioneering site was inspired by the need for a common place on the web for Canadian digital artists and storytellers to showcase their work. The site housed short film and video, animation, music, spoken word, games, experimental audio and interactive design uploaded by users, as well as interactive features created by Radio 3 producers. 120seconds connected artists and designers and encouraged them to create collaborative works for the site.

Generally regarded as one of the world's first sites to integrate web 2.0 tools and user-uploaded content, 120Seconds.com pushed all the boundaries of what a web site (especially one built in Flash and Real Player!) could do. It continued to accept uploads until 2004 when it was made a static archive. It was finally retired in 2006.

ROLES:

Led creative, editorial, and technical production of the site.

Oversaw content licensing and acquisitions.

Produced interactive features.

Art direction, design and Flash development.

Directed interactive co-productions with CBC news.

Developed national outreach and special events.