Claire Penhorwood
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Claire Penhorwood is a fourth-year journalism student at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada and an intern at GoGoNews.

She is pursuing a journalism degree with an emphasis on online journalism and new media. She has worked as a staff writer for Urbanology Magazine.

Claire was born in Toronto but moved overseas when she was 10-years-old. Living in Beijing, China for a year and London, England for seven years, she gained a wealth of cultural knowledge and experiences that have influenced her life and writing.

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Canada's Next Generation of Immigrants

0 Comments | Posted August 17, 2011 | 4:22 PM

Whenever someone asks me, "Where did you grow up?", I take a deep breath and usually say, "It's a long story... do you have 10 minutes?". I then launch into the story of telling them how I grew up in Toronto but moved to Beijing at age 10 because of...

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Journalistic Ethics Should Start at the Kitchen Table

0 Comments | Posted July 15, 2011 | 10:02 AM

If I had to venture a guess as to how many journalists have had to defend themselves -- and their professions -- to someone in the past week, I would say the magic number would be... a lot! Thanks to the News Of The World phone hacking scandal that has...

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Writing News For Kids: A Journalist's Education

0 Comments | Posted July 4, 2011 | 2:23 PM

Sitting in my online journalism class, in my second year of my journalism degree at Ryerson University in Toronto, I am told the mother of all rules for a journalist: know your audience.

Keeping this rule in the foreground of my mind has helped me as an up-and-coming online...

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