Bailey Martens is a Features Editor at The Ubyssey, the University of British Columbia’s student newspaper. Previously, she’s worked at the Huffington Post, and written for outlets including the National Post, the CBC, and Canadaland. 

She is also one of three nominees for “Student Journalist of the Year” at the John H. McDonald Awards at the annual country-wide NASH student journalism conference on February 21st. 

In this episode, we discuss her reaction to being nominated as student journalist of the year after working in student print for years, misconceptions about student journalists, the importance of Twitter for young writers, and her work reporting on vulnerable communities and sharing her own story as someone living with a chronic illness. 

You can follow Bailey on Twitter at @Miss_BaileyMae