Jordan H. Green -- BIO

   PROFILE OF AN EDUCATED, EXPERIENCED JOURNALIST

  Just watch and learn.         go the other way," said                   
  Jordan H. Green has been      Green.
watching and learning the         In his final year of
craft of journalism since       university, Green jumped
the early days when he          ship -- leaving the student
first walked into his           press for the unforgiving
university paper.               real world.
  The youthful journalist         He sent out samples of work
remembers fondly his days       to a computer publication
in the student press.           and was assigned his first
  "Those were some of the       freelance article.
best years of my life,"           "When the editor said 'we
said Green. "I made some        can only offer a dime-a-
great friends and               word to start,' I jumped at
discovered my passion for       the chance -- my first
reporting."                     paying professional story,"
  Originally Green thought      explained Green.
he'd turn out as an actor.        Green spent two years
  "I was very active in         writing for the computer
community theater and the       publication, before picking
drama club during high          up other technology based
school," he said. "I went       clients -- all while
to York University thinking     following the news in the
I'd become an actor."           world around him.
  Green's life changed during     "I've always been a news
the recession of the 1990s      junkie, watching different
-- out of work and              newscasts and reading
unwilling to sit at home        different papers," said
watching the tube, he           Green.
wandered into the student         Eventually Green's zest for
paper's office.                 information paid off, he
  "I remember being greeted     was offered a chance to
by some rough looking guy       write about politics for a
with long hair, a full-face     new monthly magazine in his
beard and torn jeans," said     area.
Green. "As it turns out, he       The magazine went belly up
was one of the nicest           due to poor financial
people I've ever met."          management, but Green used
  After writing a few           his new experience to
stories, he was hooked on       forward his career.
reporting.                        "For months I was
  "I fell in love with          communicating with an
journalism -- I just love       editor of a major daily, he
every aspect of the job,"       liked my work, but there
he said.                        just wasn't anything I
  Green spent almost three      could do for him that he
years writing in the            couldn't get done on
student press, even trying      staff," said Green.
out his hand -- or voice --       Green contacted this editor
at the student radio            and hasn't looked back.
station.                          A passion for politics
  "A few people from the        emerged leading Green to
radio station came over to      cover municipal Canadian
try print, so I decided to

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