Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer March 5–11, 2012
Once a week, we gather stories about the media business, journalism, writing, publishing, and freelancing—with a Canadian focus—and share them in Off the Wire. Who needs a water cooler?
From Canada:
- Toronto writer Andrew Westoll’s chimp memoir takes prestigious Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction [Toronto Star]
- Canada Writes poetry prize accepting submissions now to May 1: details (via @suzanneboles)
- The Toronto Tempest, a new tablet-only magazine, blows into town on Friday [Canadian Magazines]
- Event: Full-day freelancers forum: Web marketing with audio & video, March 24 [PWAC Toronto]
- How open journalism reimagines the story [Globe & Mail] (via @mastmeghan)
- When it comes to novels, it’s a man’s world but a woman’s universe [Globe & Mail] (via @MargaretAtwood)
From the U.S. and beyond:
- Hollywood ate my novel: Novelists reveal what it’s like to have their book turned into a movie [Independent.co.uk] (via @UnkScreenWriter)
- ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ blends fiction with nonfiction to explore nature of truth [Poynter.org] (via @NiemanReports)
- Why We Say No to the 10-Minute Celebrity Fluff Piece [Good Culture] (via @jsource)
- Pew Study Puts LA Times Paywall In Context [Media Bistro/Fishbowl LA]
- Chris Oakley on who killed the regional press [Jon Slattery] (via @journochat)
- 25 Stupid Newspaper Headlines [BuzzFeed] (via @ariklegeti)
From Story Board last week:
- Remembering Canadian poet Irving Layton, a century after his birth: It’s been more than six years since Irving Layton passed away at the age of 93. As the Toronto Star’s Martin Knelman noted on Tuesday, Layton asked in his will that his grave site go unmarked. Next week, though, marks the centenary of Layton’s birth on March 12, 1912, in Romania. The country he moved to as an infant won’t let that occasion go unmarked. To celebrate Layton’s life, and the contributions he made to Canadian poetry, events are taking place across the country next week
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Posted on March 11, 2012 at 8:50 pm by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
