As a sucker for sunsets, I can't help snapping a photo each time the sun starts to dip below the horizon.

As well, Storify can be used by any social media savvy user, not just a journalist or editor. Here's a sample story I threw together today after reading about sexual assault against women in the U.S. military.

I didn't write any aspect of this story, but even if I had, I could use Storify to enhance my text with video, tweets, photos or other stories.

Here's the story I wrote:

Remembering Zack: Hospital ‘dream room’ to honour Richmond Hill boy

Heather Hamilton’s days used to revolve around her youngest son Zack, a little boy with enviably long eyelashes and cheeks that puffed out when he grinned.

Born moments after his healthy twin brother, Zack entered the world with his hands clenched in fists so tight they were black.

Hamilton immediately knew something was wrong.

“His colour didn’t look right,” she says at her home in Richmond Hill. “His body looked different.”

Zack also had a congenital heart defect. The same day he was born, he had to be resuscitated — twice.

At two weeks old, Zack survived open-heart surgery, but his health problems continued, including seizures, hearing loss, fluid on the brain and developmental delays.

Geneticists eventually discovered Zack was born missing his 12th chromosome. They said it was the first recorded case in the world.

Zack died on March 10. He was 3.

Read the rest of the story here.

Also, I'm a tad bit obsessed with Instagram on my iPhone. And Hipstomatic.

I'm a Living reporter:

A Penchant for Pencils

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Baring bodies after babies

I'm a Business reporter:

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A woman banged her slipper against the window of a room in the burning Holiday Inn over and over, trying to shatter the glass.

Thirty two years later, this image still haunts Mike Zodarecky, a retired firefighter who helped battle a deliberately set fire in Greece, N.Y., that killed seven from the Toronto area and sent dozens from Ontario to hospital.

Investigators never caught the culprit. But survivors and residents of the town, a suburb of Rochester, still want the case solved.

Zodarecky, who in 1978 was a rookie firefighter, couldn’t reach the woman with his ladder.

Amid the screaming and the smoke, another firefighter promised to get the woman out. Zodarecky turned away to give medical attention to other victims.

But later, as he beat down hotel room doors with a sledgehammer after the fire was extinguished, Zodarecky found the woman with the slipper. She was dead.

“There at the foot of the bed was this woman. Not rescued,” said Zodarecky, who was only 25 at the time. “It always haunts me.”

Zodarecky and local residents are calling for a renewed investigation into the cold arson case that killed 10 people in total and injured 34 in the early morning hours of Nov. 26, 1978.

The seven dead Canadians were from Brampton, North York and Etobicoke, who spent the night in Greece while shopping in nearby Rochester.

Read the rest here.

• I wrote/produced a series of stories for Postmedia News on Canada's Food Future. You can check it out here.
• I got a new job at the Toronto Star.
• I left Ottawa and moved to Toronto, my sixth move in five years.
• I went to NYC for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
• Along with my team from the UBC School of Journalism, I won an Emmy.
• I hummed and hawed over buying an Emmy statue, which costs $500.
• I ordered an Emmy statue.

The documentary about electronic waste I helped produce with the UBC Graduate School of Journalism has been nominated for two Emmy Awards. The documentary, which investigated the illegal export of broken computers and other electronics to the developing world, aired last June on PBS Frontline/World. We received nominations for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and Outstanding Research.

I'm still in shock.

Most journalists work their entire careers for this kind of honour. The nominations have received quite a bit of attention, seeing as it's the first time Canadian journalism students have ever been nominated for an Emmy.

Pinch me.

**Update: I got the chance to talk about the nominations on the CBC Radio show All Points West. You can listen to the interview here.