Julia Lloyd

WHO AM I

Graduate from Ryerson University with a bachelor of journalism and minor in politics.

I feel my most honest self when I’m putting together a story from beginning to end. Writing takes me out of the current world and into another world that’s just at the tip of my fingers.

I can’t imagine a life where I’m not looking for stories that inspire and bring out raw emotion.

I hope to make this blog filled with my personal stories. However, I do have some posts showing my work that I have done for different publications. If there is a link in the post, it will bring you directly to the published article.

Most of my blog posts will be personal, but honest. I believe, without honesty people try to live in an imaginary world that holds no room for the ugly truth.

Past Experiences

Freelance
Pulse Magazine: (March 2021 – June 2021) Wrote and covered new emerging Canadian artists in multiple music genres.
Collision Repair Mag (Feb. 2021 – March 2021) : Finished up my last issue of Bodyworx and Collision Repair Mag Pulse Magazine.

Staff Writer for Media Matters Inc.
(Sept. 2020 – Feb. 2021)
Wrote for the publishing companies two main magazines: Collision Repair Mag and Bodyworx.
I was in-charge of producing the daily news letter as well as producing digital stories, daily, for our website.

Summer Reporter for London Publishing Inc.
(Summer of 2019)
After graduating from Ryerson I worked as a summer reporter for London Publishing Inc., and I was the main reporter for the Caledon Citizen and Shelburne Free Press.

Opinions Editor for the Ryersonian:
(January 2019 – May 2019)
In my fourth year at Ryerson University we were put in charge of our the school, the Ryersonian. We applied for positions and I was given Opinions Editor. I wrote and edited all opinion pieces each week and helped put the final layout of the paper together.

Contract Reporter at Sudbury Star
(Summer of 2018)
I moved to Sudbury, Ontario for two months and wrote for the Sudbury Star covering everything from politics to health and drug addiction.

Intern for Peterborough Examiner
(April – June 2018)
As a requirement for my undergraduate degree in journalism I had to intern for a media company and I chose to work for a daily newspaper because I was not sure what I wanted to write about in particular. This was my first experience in a newsroom and I learned so much about hard news writing and reporting.