Riley Sparks, BFA 14, from an interview with Montreal’s CTV News
Sparks honed his journalistic skills at Concordia student newspaper The Link. He will join one of his contemporaries at The Link, former editor-in-chief Julia Wolfe, BFA 13, when he starts at the Star in late August.
“The Link is the only reason I’m working in journalism right now,” says Sparks, who began working at the Gazette as an intern in June, 2013. “The training you get at a student newspaper prepares you for a career in journalism.”
Sparks, originally from Vancouver, studied photography at Concordia.
According to Sparks, Linkies – as staffers call themselves – have quite the media presence.
“Those that I worked with at The Link are currently at newspapers and magazines in Montreal and Toronto,” says Sparks.
The Link, founded in 1980, prints 8,000 copies every Tuesday. As of 2011, the not-for-profit paper also publishes digital copy on a daily basis.
The Link celebrates its 35th anniversary on October 18. Find out more.