I am an accomplished communicator and journalist with over a decade of experience creating award-winning content for audiences across multiple platforms.
With a proven track record developing communications for projects, events, websites, and social-media platforms, I know how to strengthen relationships, motivate others, and build brands among targeted audiences. My specialties include: magazines, social media, blogging, marketing, events, feature writing, communications, art direction.
From 2006 to 2017, I was an editor at Metro Guide Publishing, Atlantic Canada’s largest magazine publishing house. I was editor of East Coast Living, a nationally award-winning homes magazine, overseeing its print and online platforms and the engagement and growth of all social-media content, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. I enjoyed collaborating with diverse teams of editorial and design staff, including freelance writers and photographers located across Atlantic Canada. In addition, I helped organize Dine By Design East (2013 to 2015), East Coast Living’s successful volunteer-driven fundraiser for design education at NSCAD University.
I also edited Where Halifax, a monthly magazine for visitors that gave inspiring information about what to see, do, buy, and eat in Halifax and its surrounding communities. In addition, I edited Chamber Vision, VoxMeDAL, Nova Scotia’s regional shore guides and was a contributing editor for the Greater Halifax Visitor Guide and the Dine Nova Scotia Guide. I also contributed stories, editing, and photography to Halifax Magazine, Port of Halifax, My Halifax Experience, Bedford Magazine, Our Children, plus other publications. Visit “writing clips” for samples of my work and “online writing” for samples of my blog posts and web writing.
Background and education:
I started off studying fine art and digital-media design, and hold a diploma in Digital Animation from NSCC (2001). I also hold a BA (Honours, 2004) and an MA in English (2005) from Acadia University. My passion for communication and storytelling began at Acadia where I edited the student newspaper, the Athenaeum, and was a reporter for the regional paper, the Advertiser. I also worked as an instructional designer and trainer with the Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology.
I serve on the board of the Halifax Community Learning Network, a non-profit group providing adult literacy and ESL services in public libraries. Born and raised in the Annapolis Valley, I love fussing over my backyard garden, cruising past traffic jams on my bike, and attempting to throw supper together out of thin air. I live in North End Halifax with my husband and two daughters.
Janice Hudson 