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Biography of Craig Saila
Craig Saila has worked as an online journalist and Web developer for more than a decade. Prior to forming his own company, Saila Media, he worked at Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, for five years. Some of his notable achievements with The Globe include leading the Web development team in the full-scale, Web-standards-based redesign of the various consumer sites; implementing commenting functionality on the site; and making The Globe and Mail Canada’s first newspaper to offer RSS feeds.
Some other projects he has worked on include:
- In the early-2000s, he was an assistant editor for Digital Web Magazine where he also built the templates for that site’s 2004 standards-based redesign.
- In a 2000 relaunch, CANOE Money became one of the first major sites in Canada to use style sheets;
- In early 2004 well, Globefund.com and Globeinvestor.com both became the first major Canadian sites to use a CSS-based layout.
For five years, starting in 1997, Saila taught basic Web design and online journalism at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism. He also helped develop the curriculum for the school’s first course in that subject. More recently he’s returned to the school to teach professional certification classes on writing for the Web.
During the mid-nineties, he wrote for a number of about the Internet; as well, he wrote, for the Ryerson Review, the first in-depth analysis of Canadian online newspapers. While covering the Internet, he co-founded a national literary magazine, which published fiction and poetry from emerging writers across North America.
Craig Saila graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic University, with a Bachelor’s of Applied Arts in Journalism. He specialized in Magazine.