Jumping into Entrepreneurship, Staying Curious & Finding Balance with Ria Renouf

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This week on the Voted Least Likely Podcast I sat down with the wildly charismatic Ria Renouf. Ria is the owner of RenoufWrites, a marketing, writing and communications business that offers a la carte services. With a decade of experience in major market reporting, anchoring, and hosting, Ria first got her start at Global News 980/CKNW filing holiday stories as an intern.

By early 2014, she was working as a fill-in reporter and was officially offered a job as a morning show news anchor; that was followed by the assignment editor chair just months later. She left the station in May 2018 to give traditional public relations a try but returned to radio a few months later, accepting a job at CityNews Vancouver. She anchored the station’s popular afternoon drive show for nearly three years. By 2021, she was reporting for CityNews Vancouver’s TV side, and went onto to launch and manage digital publication New West Anchor in May of 2022.

The Anchor is a sister publication to the Georgia Straight and Vancouver Tech Journal. Known as New West’s “digital town crier,” Ria is best known for having broken a number of community stories, including one about a beleaguered New West school trustee who admitted to using a burner account over Twitter to harass people in New West and beyond.

Ria is a seven-time nominated news anchor and reporter, winning two Edward R. Murrow awards and a Radio Television Digital National Award for her radio anchoring and writing at CityNews in Vancouver. Much of what she’s been nominated for highlights her calm and informative approach to breaking news, including Christy Clark’s resignation as the leader of the BC Liberal party, the fatal 2019 Peace Arch Border crash, first reports of the border closure in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol.

In her minuscule amounts of spare time you can find Ria exploring Metro Vancouver with her husband Jon, reading a book, journaling, or indulging in a video game.

Follow Ria here: https://www.instagram.com/riarenouf

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