Vanessa Balintec
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Vanessa Balintec’s Biography
Read Full Bio →A dedicated Toronto-based journalist with 3+ years of experience crafting multimedia stories, fact-checking and verifying information and experimenting with creative ways to tell stories. When I'm not in the daily news cycle, I focus on pitching my own stories and projects, with a particular emphasis on labour, equity and disability issues.
A team player, quick learner and decisive leader ready to take on any challenge.
Vanessa Balintec’s Journalist Portfolio
Enforcement 'does not exist': Why critics say Ontario won't meet its 2025 accessibility goals | C...
Ontario cities need help - and cash - to meet 2025 accessibility deadline, advocates say | CBC Ne...
Ontario has an accessibility gap. Here's how to start closing it, according to advocates | CBC Ne...
Ontario has an accessibility gap. Here's how to start closing it, according to advocates | CBC Ne...
Awards
Donner Canadian Foundation Howard Intrator Memorial Award
2019 - Business Feature
The Donner Canadian Foundation Howard Intrator Memorial Scholarship recognizes the outstanding business writing accomplishment of a Ryerson School of Journalism student in a magazine of newspaper course in the Bachelor of Journalism program. Students should submit their best example of a business news or business feature article. Estimated at $5,000. Howard Intrator grew up in Kingston, Ont., and attended journalism school at Ryerson before becoming a reporter at the London Free Press and Canadian Press. He also served as a copy editor for the Financial Post, to which he returned after it was incorporated into the National Post. Following his sudden death in 2000, his friends and colleagues established this award in his memory.