Selected works

Work samples by Anna Dodd: stories, editorial systems, and communications strategy.

STORIES

Reported and analytical writing on sustainability, environment, and public-interest issues.

  • Title: Europe’s Critical Minerals Race Heats Up as Green Transition Faces Geopolitical Risk
  • Publication: European Business Magazine
  • Content: Analytical feature on Europe’s investment into the global critical minerals supply chain
  • Role: Research, analysis, interviews, writing
  • Title: Carbon Capture and Storage: Another Oil and Gas Subsidy
  • Publication: Ricochet Media
  • Content: Investigative feature examining the political economy of carbon capture in Canada and its role in ongoing fossil fuel subsidies
  • Role: Reporting, research, and writing
  • Title: Divest UVic: It’s Time to Break Up with Fossil Fuels
  • Publication: The Martlet
  • Content: Award-nominated reported analysis of fossil fuel divestment efforts at the University of Victoria
  • Role: Reporting, editing, interviewing, and writing

SYSTEMS

Editing, editorial leadership, and structure focused on clarity, consistency, and credibility.

  • Focus: Editorial leadership
  • Organization: The Martlet (non-profit independent newspaper at the University of Victoria)
  • Role: Oversight of editorial standards, workflow, and newsroom production, as well as outreach and distribution
  • Impact: Increased online readership and social media following, instigated Indigenous-led column, covered major breaking news stories, nominated for journalism award for coverage of fossil fuel divestment campaign
  • Focus: Editing long-form technical and academic material
  • Organization: Private clients (archeological firms, engineering firms, independent researchers)
  • Role: Structural and developmental editing of complex, technical material to improve clarity, coherence, and credibility for specialist and general audiences
  • Impact: Improved accessibility, regulatory and academic acceptance, successful publication, submitted as part of environmental assessment processes

STRATEGY

Research-driven communications strategy and narrative framing.

  • Focus: Anti-wind energy movement backgrounder
  • Organization: Simon Clark, YouTuber
  • Role: Research synthesis and narrative framing to support short-form video content addressing energy misinformation
  • Result: Informed a TikTok video with over 55,000 views, 6,000 likes, 600 saves, 250 shares
  • Focus: Feasibility study and marketing strategy
  • Organization: Stroll Walking Tours
  • Role: Conducted a feasibility study and developed a communications and marketing strategy for a multi-day walking tour focused on sustainable tourism
  • Impact: Provided a path forward and a realistic summary of the feasibility of introducing a new product to an established sustainable tourism company’s offerings

Other notable writing

  • Business Insider (feature)

    • A year ago, I was laid off from my job abroad. Being an unemployed foreigner has been hard, but also exciting.

  • Hackernoon (ghostwriting piece)

    • Rooftop Solar Could Power 40% of Europe—So What’s Holding It Back?

  • The Tyee (opinion)

    • The Trudeau Government Defers to Experts on COVID-19. Why Not Climate Change? 

  • Canadian Dimension (opinion)

    • Canada’s mainstream media news cycle is failing us

  • Business Insider (feature)

    • My mom and I live across the world from each other. We connect by traveling together to bucket-list places every year. 

  • Business Insider (feature)

    • I moved to Germany with plans to stay for 9 months. I’m still here — and married to a German man — 3 years later.

  • France Today (feature)

    • Going Sober in the Southwest of France