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KARAN SMITH
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PictureA hot dog, the Eiffel Tower, a well-framed photo, ahh: Paris.
Everyone has a niche nowadays. But I cut my teeth as a small-town daily reporter where I was thrown out to the wolves (literally, this was the Yukon) covering stories both big (murder trials, elections) and small (-50C again!) Hey, if my school counsellor had said becoming a Craft Spirits Reporter was a job option, I might have signed up. But my experience has taught me this: that curiosity and accurate reporting know no bounds. 

Five career facts:
  1. I've been writing professionally since I published my first magazine story in J-school and bought a mountain bike with the cheque.
  2. I worked at The Globe and Mail as the Travel Editor, where I earned the section successive podium finishes at the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism awards. I've since launched two regular travel features: Travel Concierge and The Insider. 
  3. I earned a National Magazine Award nomination for a Chatelaine story.
  4. I graduated from Carleton University's School of Journalism.
  5. I got my start in the business with a paper route at the ambitious age of 7.

"Smart, well-designed and brimming with ideas" is how Lowell Thomas judges described my work.

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