Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer May 22–27, 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:
- Five questions for award-winning photojournalist Peter Bregg [J-Source]
- Lament for a national blogosphere [Globe & Mail]
- Writers’ Union of Canada issues digital “Bill of Rights” [National Post / Afterword]
- Five questions for managing editor Kenny Yum on HuffPo Canada’s first birthday [J-Source]
- Mallick: CBC Stanley Cup hockey playoffs commentary goes to two females [Toronto Star]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- Why rich people are investing in newspapers, again [Poynter] (via @wolfewylie)
- Emails reveal new details about Arianna’s role in HuffPo founding, ‘cover-up’ alleged [paidContent] (via @mediagazer)
- Denver Post, Bay Area News Group revamp story editing with fewer copy editors [Poynter]
- Guardian’s open journalism is a failed business model, says Brooke [The Wall Blog] (via @JosephBarbieri)
- How Gawker wants to monetize comments [Reuters] (via @romenesko)
- Inside Forbes: The 5 real-time screens that help us run the new newsroom [Forbes]
- Journalism students rate the profs [JimRomenesko.com]
- A push to outlaw anonymous commenters in New York gets big eye-roll from digital media [Capital New York] (via @mediagazer)
From Story Board last week:
- Advice from Canadian journalists on crafting the “perfect pitch”: Besides being the kind that gets you a “yes” from an editor, what makes a pitch good? An original angle, a custom-tailored scope, timely, articulate, well-researched: all very important characteristics. But what can a writers do to make their queries “perfect”? On April 26 at The HiVE in Vancouver, The Tyee gathered together Gary Stephen Ross of Vancouver Magazine, Jane Nahirny of British Columbia Magazine, David Jordan of BCBusiness, and freelance journalist and author Erin Millar and asked them to discuss what writers can do to get closer to that perfect pitch.
- The Born Freelancer on casting aside doubt: This month I celebrate my first anniversary writing for you as The Born Freelancer. My thanks to all of you who have read my posts, to those of you who have responded to them, and to those of you who meant to respond but obviously had better things to do! Additional thanks go to those remarkable individuals behind the scene who facilitate my work and make it such a pleasure for me to pursue. And so, on this my first anniversary, time out for a little bit of reflection and contemplation.
Spot a story you think we should include in next week’s Off the Wire? Email the link to editor@thestoryboard.ca.
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:45 pm by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
