Her research interests include gender and the media, newsroom sociology, data journalism and representations of crime. She has worked as an editor, national business columnist and crime reporter at major daily newspapers in Canada and the United States. Certified as a coach in 2013, her list of scholarly awards includes: Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ), Oxford University (April-June 2016), the UBC Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar Award (2009-2010) and the 2007 Rufus Z. Smith Award for the best article published in the American Review of Canadian Studies.