Celeste Percy-Beauregard
Celeste Percy-Beauregard centres local people and institutions in stories that link everyday community life to wider cultural and civic themes, including music and entertainment. She is a reporter with The Hamilton Spectator, where her beat combines music and cultural coverage with deeply sourced local reporting in Brant County and neighbouring communities. Her work is supported through the Local Journalism Initiative, which anchors her focus on under-served areas and the decisions that shape daily life there.
Brant Catholic trustee travel controversy
A defining strand of Percy-Beauregard’s reporting is her coverage of how local governance and accountability play out in school boards and other public bodies. In one prominent story, she covers a Brant Catholic school board trustee taking an unpaid leave of absence amid a travel-related controversy, using the case to document how elected trustees respond when their choices face public scrutiny. Her reporting on this kind of issue is framed as straightforward news, but the emphasis on the trustee’s status, the unpaid leave, and the surrounding criticism shows a consistent interest in consequences and transparency in local decision-making. This approach makes her a natural fit for stories that involve policy, ethics, or reputational stakes within education and other community institutions.
Where to warm up in Brant County
Service journalism for residents is another recurring thread in Percy-Beauregard’s work. In coverage of “where to warm up in Brant County,” she writes about local warming spaces and related supports, spelling out where people can go and how municipal or community programs function in practice. The story reflects her Local Journalism Initiative mandate, combining practical information with a clear sense of the geography and needs of Brant County. By presenting specific locations and resources, she positions herself as a reporter who can translate policy and program details into accessible guidance for people who need to navigate local services.
'The Amazing Race Canada' and Hamilton competitors
Alongside civic reporting, Percy-Beauregard covers culture and entertainment through the lens of local participants and their personal narratives. In her feature “'The Amazing Race Canada' a unique journey of sisterhood and healing for Hamilton competitors,” she follows two Hamilton sisters on the reality series and frames the episode as a story of repair, resilience, and family ties, not just competition. The headline’s focus on “sisterhood and healing” signals her preference for emotional and relational angles when she writes about television and broader popular culture. Published at the Welland Tribune, this piece shows that she carries the same human-centred style across mastheads when covering national shows with local casts.
Profiles of local leaders and entrepreneurs
Percy-Beauregard also writes profiles that spotlight local leaders, entrepreneurs, and community builders. Her front-page story on Skū Náh Café traces how the café grew out of a health scare and significant learning, presenting the business as both a commercial venture and a personal recovery narrative. In another piece, she profiles Spencer Edwards, capturing his work and personality in a way colleagues describe as “inspirational and eminently quotable,” reflecting her ear for strong voice and memorable detail. These features sit alongside her music and cultural coverage and share the same through-line: individual stories and lived experience are the entry point to understanding local economies, creative scenes, and civic life.
Across these strands—governance controversies, practical guides for residents, reality television as a story of family dynamics, and profiles of local figures—Percy-Beauregard’s reporting is consistent in tone. She writes in clear, direct language, foregrounds the people most affected by events or policies, and draws out narrative hooks without losing the factual core. For communications teams, she is relevant wherever a story intersects with Brant County and nearby communities, local government and education, or cultural coverage that ties national platforms back to local voices.
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Aisling Murphy
Aisling Murphy is the theatre reporter and critic at The Globe and Mail. She stands out for writing about theatre as both art and infrastructure, with coverage that links new Canadian stage work, awards culture, and pop-inflected criticism. She covers theatre, music, and pop culture in a detailed, conversational style, moving between reviews, reported features, and analysis of the systems that shape what gets produced. Her beat includes the Dora Awards, Toronto stages, new writing, intimate productions, and smaller venues, as well as controversy where artistic decisions meet politics and community response. Before The Globe, she was senior editor of Intermission Magazine, and her bylines include The New York Times, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, and the Baltimore Sun.
Alex Hudson
Alex Hudson is Editor-in-Chief of Exclaim! and leads coverage of music’s links to sports, literature, and technology, with a strong focus on Canadian artists. Hudson reports on how music intersects with other fields, not as a separate industry. Recent coverage has included Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer on how playing piano saved his career, Ottawa Bluesfest’s Canada-wide soccer watch party, Lakes of Canada’s Margaret Atwood-inspired album Transgressions, Hannah Mary McKinnon on The Beaches influencing her rock-themed novel, and Alexander Nilsson’s 1001 Albums Generator as a tool for broadening music discovery beyond algorithmic recommendations.
Alexis Mikulski Ruiz
Alexis Mikulski Ruiz is a commerce writer whose distinct focus is the buying and streaming side of music, entertainment and lifestyle, helping readers decide how to watch major events and what to purchase around them. She is an e-commerce specialist at Rolling Stone, covering products, platforms and deals tied to award shows, festivals, sports and everyday culture. Her beat blends music streaming guides with shopping and product recommendations across fashion, beauty, tech, food, wellness and drinks. She reports through experience-focused service journalism, using lists, comparison roundups and step-by-step guides to answer concrete questions about how to stream major cultural moments, where to shop and which products to choose. Her background includes commerce and lifestyle writing for consumer publications such as Esquire, Men’s Health, Good Housekeeping, Oprah Daily, Women’s Wear Daily and Billboard.
Allie Gregory
Allie Gregory maps how audiences encounter new music by tracking the practical pathways of releases, tours, festivals, platforms and projects. She is a managing editor and news writer at Exclaim!, where she is a primary editorial contact for forthcoming releases and news tips and helps shape the outlet’s daily agenda around new music and its broader entertainment context. Her reporting centres on timely album and tour announcements, live logistics and festival programming across indie, metal, country, pop and adjacent film and streaming news. She writes direct, information-heavy pieces that foreground calendars, support acts, set times and programming structures, while also producing longer-form interviews, cultural stories and staff-pick recommendations that connect artists’ work, controversy and creative campaigns to how audiences encounter music and entertainment on the road, at festivals and on screens.