Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer June 18-24
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:
- Radio stations tune in profits despite heavy competition [Globe and Mail]
- Magazine management needs to pay attention to the thorny issue of unpaid internships [Canadian Magazines]
- CBC leads with 30 RTNDA Canada awards, Global comes in second with 10 [J-Source]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- Gawker’s Unpaid Interns Sue After Fox Searchlight Ruling [Bloomberg]
- The freelance life, redux: 10 lessons from my first year of freelancing [CJR] (via
@Mediabistro) - Why freelancers have less free time than their cubicle counterparts [GDB] (via @LuigiBenetton)
- “I Was Paid $12.50 An Hour To Write This Story” [The Awl] (via @longform)
- How Do You Find The Time To Write? 6 Tips [Writers Digest]
- The End of the Unpaid Internship [Slate] (via @karenatcmg)
- The Ace Freelancer’s Guide to Asking Questions [Work Made For Hire] (via @freelancersu)
- How do we make freelance journalism sustainable? [Mediashift] (via @mediagazer)
- Can Women’s Magazines Do Serious Journalism? [New Republic] (via @natalieturvey)
From Story Board last week:
- Traits of a successful freelancer. Have you got what it takes?: In May I had the good fortune of spending a week at the Santa Fe Science Writer’s Workshop. There I joined a class of 52 students whose minds were expanded by learning from top American science journalists – staff or freelancers for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Tracker…
- CMG Freelance Branch investigates CBC call for submissions: Regular freelance contributors to CBC Radio’s DNTO program received an email a couple of weeks ago from DNTO on behalf of a new summer radio program called, ‘How To Do It’…
- Freelancers object to Transcontinental’s Best Corporate Citizen ranking:What are the qualities of a good corporate citizen? Is a good employer concerned with its impact on the environment? Does a good employer offer benefits and programs to its employees beyond those it is legally required to provide? Is a good corporate citizen concerned with the fair treatment of its contractors?…
Spot a story you think we should include in next week’s Off the Wire? Email the link to editor@thestoryboard.ca or tweet us at @storyboard_ca.
Posted on June 24, 2013 at 9:00 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
