Staff
By • August 12, 2011
The Gazette is a student-run publication and it relies on the hard work of its staff and volunteer contributors to exist. Our editorial staff are elected by the Dalhousie student body and Gazette staff contributors at an annual general meeting each spring. Contributors can write any time on any subject: feel free to drop us a line or an article.
Editors
Dylan Matthias, Editor-in-chief
Dylan is beginning to worry that he’s been around the Gazette too long, mostly because he’s now been roped into running the paper for all of the 2011-12 year. He’s a fifth-year student trying to do English, journalism and creative writing all at the same time. In his (diminishing) spare time, he covers university soccer on various blogs and writes speculative fiction novels on such themes as death, power and political corruption. He enjoys contradictions and wishes time-travel existed right now. He ran a high school paper called The Wall for two years in very rural Nova Scotia, and he now realizes that stress then has nothing on stress now. Drop by the office to chat, eat leftover pizza, or volunteer. This paper’s important, and we’re all in it together—otherwise Dylan probably would have found something better to devour his time by now.
Erica Eades, Copy Editor/Arts Editor
Born in the small town of Almonte, Ont., Erica developed an appreciation for the arts at a young age. Her childhood was filled with drama classes, piano lessons and art camp, and during her free time, you could find her curled up reading in a comfy chair, or working on her next great literary masterpiece (the first being “The Baby Dragons,” a short story written at age six about the joys of friendship and Polly Pockets). Erica later settled in Halifax to begin her degree at Dalhousie University. Initially studying international development, her childhood love of reading and the arts motivated her to switch degrees and pursue a major in English with a minor in journalism studies. She began writing for the Dalhousie Gazette in 2009 and moved up to assistant arts editor in 2010. Now she’ll be taking on a more substantial role at the paper as both arts editor and copy editor. Erica has big shoes to fill this year, but she brings with her a solid grasp of the English language, and a desire to further the paper, whether that’s through increasing readership, offering top-notch arts reporting, or providing exceptionally clean copy. If you’d like to get in touch with Erica, stop by a contributors meeting on Monday night in room 312 of the SUB. There’ll be pitches, pizza, and a lot of pretty cool people.
Katrina Pyne, News Editor
Ninety-nine per cent coffee and one per cent nervous anxiety makes up Katrina. She may have only entered the journalism program at King’s because she’d watched a lot of the Gilmore Girls the night before the registration deadline, but she’s pretty sure she’s in the right field now, she thinks. Born and raised in Kingston, Ontario, she spent the summer as a rural reporter for her hometown paper, mostly taking photos of tractor races and fishing excursions. She is now pleased—no, thrilled—to be taking on the role of news editor at the Gazette after many unpaid late nights working to meet the Gazette deadline over the last two years. She is heading into her third year of journalism at King’s doing combined honours with international development studies and apologizes in advance for eating most of the pizza at contributor’s meetings.
Torey Ellis, Assistant News Editor
Torey is one of those messy King’s-Dal hybrid students, in her third year of a journalism and Canadian studies combined honours program. She comes from southern Ontario (not Toronto, thanks very much) and plans to use that very marketable journalism degree to learn about the other 95 per cent of the country. Most of her time is spent either whittling down that pile of really great books she just hasn’t been able to get to yet, or wandering around a certain Barrington St. used bookstore finding even better ones. Failing either of those options, she’ll probably be baking something sinful because everything seems more accomplishable if you smell some melted butter.
Leslie Gallagher, Assistant Arts Editor
Leslie Gallagher is entering her fifth and (hopefully) final year of a combined honours degree in English and creative writing. Last year, she was the entirely overwhelmed editor-in-chief of Verso, copy-editor of Fathom, and president of the English society. She is also a research assistant with the Editing Modernism in Canada project. Her other interests include dancing (alone), cooking (for other people), and playing hide-and-seek with Winston, her mostly-affable guinea pig.
Matthew Ritchie, Opinions Editor
Born and raised in Toronto, Ont., Matthew moved to Halifax when he was 17 to begin a degree in English at Dalhousie. But after a few years of reading the works of others, he began submitting articles to Exclaim! magazine and writing for the Dalhousie Gazette. This foray into journalism grew into a position at the paper as assistant arts editor in 2009, leading to his recent return to the Gazette as the new editor of the Opinions section. Matthew has an interest in Canadian politics, social media and art history. While not working at the Gazette, he contributes to The Coast and rides his bike around the city.
Ian Froese, Sports Editor
Born and raised in rural Manitoba, Ian is studying journalism at the University of King’s College. Before writing sports routinely for the Gazette last year, Ian contributed to the student paper at the University of Manitoba. This summer he worked as a reporter/photographer for The Carillon, an award-winning weekly newspaper near his hometown.
Angela Gzowski, Photo Editor
Angela Gzowski was born in Yellwknife, NWT. She took her Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography at NSCAD University. She works for The Coast and also as a freelance photographer. Check out her work at www.angelagzowski.com and flickr.com/photos/angelagzowski/.
Jenna Harvie, Creative Editor
Jenna is a writer. She just graduated from the University of King’s College with a BA in English and creative writing. She has had the pleasure of seeing multiple poems and short stories published in Halifax and in her hometown of Ottawa. Throughout her four years at King’s and Dalhousie she has worked as fiction editor, design editor, and editor-in-chief of Fathom; design editor of Verso; fiction editor for the Gazette; and copy editor for Just. She also writes for a horror blog where she reviews comics and graphic novels. She is continuing her education at Dalhousie by starting in computer science where she specializes in graphics, gaming and media. Her new career path will help her finish her science fiction novels as well as provide inspiration for the genres that she writes in.
Leilani Graham-Laidlaw, Online Editor
Leilani is the online editor for the Dalhousie Gazette. She likes being busy, and to that effect also works at the CBC, writes for various publications, and is in her final year of a Bachelor of Journalism Honours program at the University of King’s College. She can usually be found either buried deep into RSS feeds, anywhere there is lots of coffee, or bouncing around like a magpie after some shiny new story.
Rob Sangster-Poole, Assistant Online Editor
Rob’s main job with the Gazette is to keep the Online Editor relatively sane. This can be difficult.
When not performing this key role, he spends his free time in the kitchen, cooking and baking. Upon completing his honours in International Development Studies and History, Rob plans to put off the inevitable law degree that will consume the golden years of his youth. This life detour will hopefully be done by working as an apprentice baker in a small business during the day, while moonlighting as some sort of street performer (preferably a mime/fire-breather/fortune-teller). Or something like that.
Jonathan Rotsztain, Art Director/Comics Editor
Jonathan Rotsztain is a freelance writer and graphic designer. He specializes in and offers communications services: Editorial Design, Typography, Branding/Identity, Print Production, Illustration, Web Design, Communications Writing and Project Management.
Jonathan has worked with many clients in Halifax and around the world including jane’s on the common, FRED., Nimbus Publishing, Ecology Action Centre, Aisling Discoveries, RBR Development, Bus Stop Theatre, eyelevel gallery and Byrony House.
Jonathan has served as the Art Director of the Dalhousie Gazette since August 2009. He is responsible for the new brand and interior redesign, layout, graphic generation, advertising and pre-press as well as illustration coordination.
Jonathan is partner at ALL CAPS Design. Feel free to get in touch with him at Design@DalGazette.com or Jonathan@ALLCAPSDesign.com



