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by Jessica Gillies
Hallam
Martlet staff members are going places. For the third time since 2003, a Martlet staffer has been elected to a national position at the Canadian University Press (CUP).
Bryna Hallam, 2005/06 editor-in-chief of the Martlet, has been elected national bureau chief of the student newspaper collective. “I have a strong background in editing,” she says. “This has been a position I’ve been working toward for the last couple of years.”
Hallam, who graduated from UVic last November with a major in linguistics and a minor in professional writing in journalism and publishing, first got involved with the Martlet in 2001. Her first staff position at the paper was in fall 2003 as a contributing editor. In fall 2004, she held the position of senior news editor. Last year, Hallam was the CUP features bureau chief, and she’s currently the western bureau chief.
CUP, which currently has 68 member papers across Canada, has daily and weekly wire services that include news, arts, sports, features, opinion and graphics. The main responsibility of the national bureau chief, says Hallam, is preparing the wire each day and writing and editing stories for it when necessary.
“There have been people from the Martlet involved in CUP before,” she says. “The Martlet is well-regarded in the CUP world, and it has a reputation for not only being a good paper, but for having good people come out of it.”
In 2003, then-Martlet managing editor Craig Battle was elected CUP president. In 2005, then-Martlet editor Sean Sullivan was elected to the same position.
Hallam, who grew up in Armstrong, B.C., says she doesn’t know what she’ll do after she completes her term as national bureau chief in Toronto (the position runs from July to April), but she’s sure about one thing: “Whatever I’m doing, I want to be writing.”
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