Writing

Sarah Lazarovic has written for National Post, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Maclean’s, Elle Canada, Today’s Parent, Ottawa Citizen, Now Magazine, Eye Weekly, Broken Pencil, Shameless, YYZine, Media Bistro, Shaw, Rogers and others.

She has ten years experience as a web content creator and designer. In 2005, she founded the popular city blog, Torontoist.com. A few years later she became Senior Web Producer of The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos. There, she spearheaded a multi-platform site launch, and initiated the first full streaming of a CBC program.

Since then she has been a resident at the Banff New Media Institute, where she created a prototype for the environmental home retrofit site she is currently developing through a grant from the Green Toronto Awards. Sarah has taught and developed WordPress and digital media curriculum at Humber’s online journalism program. She consults and delivers blog and web content advice, and is presently working with Shaw media.

As a TV writer, she has just written her first script for Scaredy Squirrel. As well, her latest feature script, The Teplitskys Are Furious was recently optioned.

Selected pieces:
Syd Hoff’s Cartoon Life, Tablet Magazine, June 2012
(Bikini) Brief interview with Nora Ephron, Elle Canada, July 2012
The Science of Play, Today’s Parent, June 2012
The Busy Woman’s Anti-Book Club, Maclean’s, February 22, 2011