C.V.
ALL IN ONE GO
Cleo has contributed to everyone from The Economist to the (better paying) Weekly World News. Along the way she has hosted two B.B.C. radio travel shows, been a regular tv and radio panelist, taught at universities in the U.K., Canada and New Zealand and wrote the Emmy-winning tv series Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within. Her column has appeared weekly in Canada's National Post ever since the paper launched.
But wait, that's not all! Click below for more self-aggrandization! (But, sadly, no Ginsu knives.)
Magazines
and Newspapers :
Condé Nast Traveller; Islands; The Economist (UK); The Independent
(UK); Independent on Sunday (UK); Sunday Times (UK); Columbia Journalism
Review (New York); Wired (San Francisco); Spa Life (Canada); Pure Canada
(Boston); Big World (Pittsburgh); Shift (Toronto); Tourism in Focus (UK);
Canadian Wildlife Magazine (Toronto); Dallas Morning News; National Post;
Chicago Tribune; Times of India (New Delhi); Japan Times (Tokyo); Time
Out (UK); Edmonton Journal; Vancouver Province; Victoria Times-Colonist;
Regina Leader Post; Sudbury Star; Edmonton Journal; St. Petersburg Times
(Florida); Westways (California); Westworld (Alberta); Calgary Herald;
Weekly World News (Florida); Montreal Gazette; En Route (Montreal); Canadian
Geographic; Globe and Mail (Toronto); and, once upon a time, SPY (New
York).
Film
and Television
Writer: Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within (Bravo,
Global).
Researcher and Writer: Satisfaction Guaranteed:
the Magic of News (National Film Board of Canada).
Field Producer/Researcher: Jonathan Ross' Americana
(Channel 4, U.K.).
Panelist: Benmurgi Live (C.B.C. Newsworld); Pam Wallin
(C.B.C. Newsworld); WTN.CA (WTN); Chat Room (Talk TV).
Researcher: Tonight with Jonathan Ross (Channel
4): The Journal (C.B.C.); Jonathan Ross Live From New York (Channel 4);
Merchandising Murder: O.J. and The Media (C.B.C.); Saga of the Vikings
(Discovery); Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (N.F.B.;
Necessary Illusions); Minstrel Boy aka Ted Allen Biography (N.F.B.; Galafilm).
Production Consultant: Channel 4; Planet 24;
Lonely Planet.
Books
Anthologized: Traveler's Tales: 30 Days in the South Pacific; Lonely Planet: Montreal; Lonely Planet: Canada; Navigating Customs; Traveler's Tales: Not So Funny When It Happened; Traveler's Tales: Food; Traveler's Tales: Women in the Wild; Traveler's Tales: Japan; Morningside Papers, Vols. 4 & 5 & 6.
Researcher: Official X-Files Book of the Unexplained by Jane Goldman, Vols. 1 & 2; Japan, I Never Knew, by David Suzuki and Keibo Oiwa; Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, by Mark Achbar.
Radio
Host and/or Producer/Writer: Four Corners (B.B.C.
Radio 4); Small Worlds (B.B.C. World Service).Contributor or columnist:
From Our Own Correspondent (B.B.C.); Definitely Not The Opera (C.B.C.
national); Global Village (C.B.C./R.C.I.); The Radio Show (C.B.C. national);
Fabulous (B.B.C. Radio 5); Sunday Morning (C.B.C. national); Morningside
(C.B.C. National); Anybody Home (C.B.C. national); Homerun (C.B.C. Montreal);
The Scottish Report (B.B.C. Radio 4); Good Morning Quebec (C.B.C. Quebec);
Dayshift (C.B.C. National); Présent dimanche (Radio Canada, Montreal).
Miscellaneous
Grudgingly bilingual (English/French); was Martha
Gellhorn's private secretary; ex-ski instructor; teaches university-level
journalism; ran radio training program in the Maldives; child star in
Oscar nominated film; been to Iceland seven times; can tie own shoelaces
(reluctantly).
Recent
Awards
Gold, Local Lifestyle Feature, North American Travel Journalists Assoication (NATJA), 2007; Gold (By-lined Column), Silver (Best Series), NATJA, 2005; Gold, Northern Lights Awards, 2004; Wrote Emmy and Gemini winning tv series, 2003; Gold (Best Magazine Feature), Silver (Best Series), NATJA, 2003; Gold (Best Cultural Article Category), Silver (Best Column, Silver (Best Series), NATJA, 2002; Canada Council Award, 2002; Alto Award For Outstanding Travel Journalism, 2002; Grand Prize, Best Overall, NATJA, 2001; Gold, Northern Lights Awards, 2001; Silver, Northern Lights Award, 2000; Finalist, Canadian National Magazine Awards, 1998; 'Most likely to leave her boxes in my basement - Forever', her dad, 1990 to Present.
