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Sarah Berman

Sarah Berman is a Vancouver-based editor and reporter, but her work keeps her moving. She has filmed renegade street artists in New York, investigated the environmental cost of shrimp farming in Thailand, and given a voice to victims of sexual violence in Malawi. She also live-blogged a Justin Bieber show one time, but nobody's perfect. With bylines in Adbusters and the Vancouver Sun, Berman has blogged for the Toronto Star and produced multimedia for the Globe and Mail. These days, she can often be found shuffling albums at CiTR, proofing Megaphone magazines, freelancing for OpenFile, and crashing Tyee parties.

Reporting Beat: Communities, creativity, African media, social justice, culture, music, film, theatre and visual art.

Sarah's Connection to BC: Born and raised in London, Ontario, Sarah roadtripped west in search of beaches, tunes, pho and a decent grad program. (Probably in that order.)

Twitter: @sarahberms

Stories by Sarah Berman

artsculture

A Tyee Series

Vancouver's Underground Music Lab

Inside Nite Prison studio, where cross-genre bands breed the city's newest sounds.

By Sarah Berman, 12 May 2012

mediacheck

Ban Billboards, Fund Journalism!

In São Paulo, advertisers blocked from buying signboard space support publications instead.

By Sarah Berman, 10 May 2012

news

A Tyee Series

How to Plug BC's Creative Brain Drain

Business sectors unite to find ways to keep our brightest talents in the province.

By Sarah Berman, 26 Apr 2012

news

A Tyee Series

So You Want to Break into Hollywood North

Capilano U. is the latest school to promise to help. But self-starters like Chris Clark plunge in without the '$40K handshake.'

By Sarah Berman, 20 Feb 2012

news

BC's Five Looniest Liquor Laws

Raise a glass to our lush province's most outlandish legal hangovers.

By Sarah Berman, 30 Dec 2011

news

A Tyee Series

Idea #3: Unwrap a Gift Economy

Use Wall Street's language and build an alternative based on generosity, not greed.

By Sarah Berman, 21 Dec 2011

news

Learning to Love the Swarm

Victim of disease and pests, the threatened bee finds a new caretaker in Vancouver's young and eco-savvy.

By Sarah Berman, 1 Nov 2011

mediacheck

No Hashtag? No Revolution

How did dictators crush dissent before social media? See Malawi, where digital scarcity empowers oppressive rulers.

By Sarah Berman, 5 Oct 2011