Chantilly Post graduated from Humber Polytechnic’s Journalism Advanced Diploma program in 2015, interning as an online news writer for Entertainment Tonight, what she thought would be her dream job and is now an international marketing manager for Warner Music Group.

“I kind of got my dream job and I didn’t like it. It was necessary. I’m happy I went through that so young and early in my career, instead of getting it later and then realizing this isn’t what I want,” Post said.

“I graduated from Humber and I worked at Entertainment Tonight Canada and then I left Entertainment Tonight but even while I was still there, I actually ended up starting my own blog because I knew I still wanted to do journalism,” she said.

Post later started a blog when she realized her beat was music and wanted to have more freedom involving what artists she chose to speak to, desiring to be on their teams, help tell their story and what she wanted to speak on, in addition to her freelance work as a music journalist.

“I also remember my year of studying. It was the very first time that they let us report a story with our phones, which is crazy. It was like the first year where the teacher was like, ‘Things are changing. I want you guys to go downtown and tell me a story using your phone because now journalists are now doing that,’ ” Post said.

“So I say that communication and journalism is storytelling and at the end of the day, every single thing that we get sold is like a narrative and storytelling,” she said.

“When we go to buy a product, there’s a narrative and a story behind how that product is the best or why it’s the best or why it’s beating out other brands. So I think that in this changing industry, you can’t deny that communication is always going to be important,” Post said.

Ashley Greco graduated from Humber Polytechnic’s Radio Broadcasting program in 2004 and described this program and the people in it to have a huge influence on her career.

Jerry Chomyn, who was the Program Head of Media Studies for the University of Guelph Humber at the time, had convinced her to major in announcing instead of production.

“I’ve decided production is what I want to do. And he says I can’t let you do that. He’s like I feel like you are going to be very successful as an announcer and I just can’t let you not take that path,” Greco said.

“I owe everything to Jerry for the career that I’ve had because I just feel like it would have gone in a completely different direction. He heard something in me that I didn’t hear in myself at the time,” she said.

Greco described her decision to choose Humber to study at as an easy decision given how many professionals were on the faculty, making it a great way to network and gain insights in the industry.

“I lacked a lot of confidence going into the program because I wasn’t sure if it was something that I wanted to do. But it wasn’t until the second year, when we started to work in the radio station itself, that I really started to gain the confidence,” she said.

“The biggest thing for me is the amount of confidence I had leaving the program based on when I first walked through the door, unsure if this was even something I wanted to do. I was lost my first year and then I was completely driven and knew that I was in the right program,” Greco said.

At the end of her program, she interned at Kiss 92.5 and was best-known as the singing phone op as she’d sing all of the requests that would come in the request line.

Greco now works as a morning show host for Bell Media and advises students to take advantage of all of the hands-on opportunities there are so many at Humber that allow you to immerse yourself in every aspect of radio.

Article Written By: Julia Vellucci

James MacPhee graduated from Humber Polytechnic's Radio Broadcasting program in 1992, now best-known as an award winning voice actor, voice talent and voiceover artist.

Many of Humber's programs offer internship opportunities including the Radio Broadcasting program which helped MacPhee get started in his career outside of Humber.

"I landed my first radio job at the same station I interned at (CFCO, Chatham) about six months after the internship," MacPhee said.

Radio Humber is now on Bluesky, bringing to you updates on their latest artists, music and even campus news. Radio Humber has celebrated over 50 years of radio at Humber Polytechnic, has some well-known alumni on radio stations across Canada and provides many students with live radio broadcasting experience.