Who is Sarah Millar?

Sarah Millar grew up in Hamilton, Ontario and works as a web editor.

She began her career writing youth and entertainment articles for the Hamilton Spectator, where she was one of the first reporters on the scene of a deck collapse in downtown Hamilton in August of 2001. The story was picked up by the Toronto Star and the Canadian Press — she was just 18.

After moving to Kincardine, Ont., she wrote for the Sun Times in Owen Sound, where she covered a coroner’s inquest and Kincardine council before she was hired by the Kincardine News, where she was a reporter/photographer. After moving to Toronto, where she attended York University and graduated with a degree in film theory, she freelanced for the Toronto Star, was Ontario Bureau Chief at Canadian University Press before being hired as a copy editor at the National Post.

Here are some story highlights:

• Toronto propane explosion, August 2008: One of the first reporters on the scene, it was partly because of Sarah that the Post was the first mainstream media outlet to have coverage of the blast. Her photos were republished in papers across Canada.
• Canadian Idol coverage: Sarah has covered Canadian Idol for its last three seasons and in 2008, she ramped up coverage by interviewing each member of the Top 10 as they were voted out.
• York University strike coverage, 2008-09: Again, one of the first reporters to be on the story, Sarah followed the story from the union’s decision to strike to legislation being passed ordering the union back to work. She also used Twitter to live-tweet the Ontario Legislature as they debated the back-to-work legislation.
• “Returning to Ottawa” — a personal, poignant essay on her experiences with depression for the Ottawa Citizen after a missing Ottawa student’s suicidal thoughts became public.

She also has radio experience, where she has discussed the York University strike and interviewed Bob Rae.

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