Rhiannon Coppin - writer, journalist, cyclist, nerd

Portfolio

Highlights: Stories that I enjoyed reporting, or that meant a lot to me

	Momentum Magazine Shifting Priorities:an interview with Lance Armstrong May 2008 cover		The Conservator Promised Land A feature on the global significance of the Georgia Basin's wetlands and steps that are being taken to preserve their value. (2006)
Vancouver Courier covers (2004-2007)		Yukon News (Summer 2007)
	Herpes: the forgotten epidemic		Radon risk in Whitehorse
	Rave new world: from party to religion		Firecaster sees forest fires before they start
	The real price of sushi		Store's no-bag policy leads to assault
	Where eagles dare: urban raptors dominate in Vancouver		Architect Douglas Cardinal re-designs Ross River
	Cache me if you can: Nerds are finally getting outdoors, thanks to GPS		Dog left for dead has day in court
Seven Oaks Magazine		Yukon News (continued)
Feature:LSAT blues Book review: Starbucks' Make It Your Drink Feature: Sleep paralysis and the power of words Feature Sharks and the world's troubled waters		The search for Angel Oil bidding starts without land use plan Gay for the White Stripes Local hot springs eyed by multinational Mice infest Superstore
Western Living Magazine		Vancouver Magazine
	Is organic food nutritionally superior? (a literature review)		Don't blame Surrey
Vancouver Review		The Globe and Mail
	Advice on a social disease: Hobophobia		Facts and Arguments: Did we kill off the crayfish? The Globe and Mail - Report on Business (B5) Comfort and joy of a hi-def hearth

Flash (programming, not graphics)

Vancouver Sun

	Morality Survey/Quiz: (collected data in Excel-readable text file, and allowed reporter to analyze data for follow-up article)
	Airport Taser death timeline (video loads slow on this server)
	Simon Fraser's voyage -- partly-templated map: (dynamically-reads in text, some images, from external XML file and directories)
	Drug ring map -- partly-templated, adapted from Simon Fraser's voyage map template.
	BC Penitentiary secret graveyard (has issue with fonts on some browsers -- also templated (i.e. dynamically generated)
	Blog link widget - dynamic widget (all files external to flash) for incorporating onto site's front page.

Virtual Museum of Canada / SFU

Soundslides (Columbia U. course reporting assignments)

Nov. 4, 2008

Nov. 4, 2008

August 2008

NYC Greenmarket on Broadway at 116th, Manhattan

		Video editing
		Plenty of experience (too many hours to count) converting and extracting video and using iMovie to review and edit footage for video initiative on VancouverSun.com (before they switched to Final Cut Pro). I don't own the copyright to the videos, but I can show samples to interested parties (there are 50 or so to choose from).
		B:C:Clettes SexyBack helmet video winner of a 2008 Streetsblog 'Streetsie' awards ("Sexiest Streetfilm")
		SeymourBomb 2007 - just a fun splice together of lo-quality mini-bike race footage (MovieMaker)
		Other technology

January 2009

Using Joomla, php, and related tools to administer and do backups of a class site: BehindOnlinePharma.com

and a commercial site: valliecomponents.com