TORONTO — Vidya Kauri, a 31-year-old Ryerson University student currently in her third year of the four-year Bachelor of Journalism Program, is one of those rare people who can braid technical know-how with plain English.

The world would be a better place if this type of person were tasked with writing owners’ manuals, instruction booklets and, while we’re at it, stories about trucking.

These people should be encouraged.

And that’s exactly what happened to Kauri earlier this week when she was awarded the $1,000 Rolf Lockwood Scholarship at the Ryerson University Journalism Awards Night.

(Newcom Business Media founder and President Jim Glionna introduced the award after the company’s co-founder and Vice-President, Editorial Rolf Lockwood won the highly coveted 2003 Harvey Southam Editorial Career Award. Now, the Lockwood Award goes every year to the student who, in their second year, produces an outstanding piece of business journalism.)
 

Vidya won $1000… and a hat!

Born in Bangalore, India, Kauri first studied engineering at her father’s insistence and then returned to school to embrace journalism where she very deftly melds technical interests with wordsmithing—a sort of alchemy that’s in big demand in our increasingly high-tech economy.

“I love journalism,” she says, adding, “I have a deep desire to learn and when you’re writing, you’re learning every single day. Every day you find out something you’d never thought of before.”

Kauri’s award winner was, coincidentally, completely apt for Newcom. She wrote about the beer-delivery business and it appeared in the Hamilton Spectator. You can read it here.

The staff at todaystrucking.com doffs our hat to Ms. Kauri and we’re confident her name will be appearing in the future annals of logistics journalism.

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