ShowweiChu

My first full-time job as a reporter was for the New London Day covering the municipal life of two New England towns in Connecticut. It's where I learned to drive a stick and logged tens of thousands of miles on I-95 to chronicle the lives of lobstermen, buffalo entrepreneurs and Native Americans.

Since then I've written countless stories for some of Canada's most reputable newspapers, wire services and magazines. There are too many to list here but some of my favourite scoops were for the Globe and Mail, covering the rise and fall of technology darlings like BlackBerry during the dot-com era.

I’ve had front-page stories in many sections of the newspaper, chronicling extraordinary events, such as 9/11, the SARS outbreak and the Ontario blackout. I’ve met panhandlers staking out the Internet, rock stars hitting the perfect note with autotuners and street photographers capturing the decisive moment in the City of Light. I’ve also had fun meeting billionaires, top athletes and celebrities from eBay’s Jeff Skoll to Olympic sprinter Donovan Bailey.

In the past five years, I moved away from front-line reporting to be a newsroom editor at CityNews and Yahoo Canada where I’ve had the privilege of leading teams of journalists and steering the organizations’ news coverage. But when the opportunity arose I remained active as a writer and photographer.

Highlights from this period include travelling to Washington, D.C., to cover Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration and his first Canadian visit, documenting the G20 riots in Toronto and shooting a series of green roofs across Canada for a feature about the popularity of these environmentally-friendly flat roofs.

I've now returned to freelance writing, editing and photography. You can visit my blog for more recent samples of my work, which includes articles about the U.S presidential election, Ontario's crushing hydro bills and the Trans Mountain Pipeline.