Terri Coles

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Location
St. John's, Newfoundland And Labrador
Expertise
Food Trends, Health And Nutrition, Culinary Travel
  • Terri has interviewed notable people as varied as Canadian author Margaret Atwood, Flaming Lips frontperson Wayne Coyne, and nutrition expert Marion Nestle.
  • She was once interviewed as a guest expert on bologna on a local talk-radio program.
  • Terri was a consumer health columnist for Reuters and completed the National Institutes of Health's Medicine in the Media training program for journalists.

Experience

Terri is a long-time writer with bylines for Food Network, Extra Crispy, Yahoo News, Huffington Post, CBC News, and Roads and Kingdoms. She has more than a decade of reporting and editing experience across a wide range of topics, including nutrition, health, and food news and trends. She worked as a health editor for Reuters and Chatelaine in Canada, and loves to explore culinary and lifestyle in her news, travel, and political reporting. Her latest personal project is her blog, Go Guanacaste, where she's sharing travel tips (including best restaurants) for one of her favorite destinations, Costa Rica.

Education

Terri has a B.A. in media studies and M.A. in journalism from Western University in Ontario, Canada, and is currently working on her M.A. in political science. She's also completed certificate courses in growth marketing and web development.
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