Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Oct 8-15
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:
- The Complete Guide to Fearless Freelancing [Explore Create Repeat] (via @cawcreative)
- Crowdfunding counts as taxable income, Revenue Canada says [CBC]
- Pacific Newspaper Group wants to reset image for readers and employees [J-Source]
- Canada’s Alice Munro is awarded 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature [BBC] (via @twuc)
- Since When Do Plagiarists Deserve Praise? [Huffington Post] (via @sladurantaye)
- Why the Globe and Mail is ‘incentivising newsroom staff’ [Journalism.co.uk]
- Why La Presse spent $40 million on building a free tablet edition [Media Briefing] (via @NiemanLab)
- The TORO story comes to an end as online version is being discontinued [Canadian Magazines]
- Ezra Levant in court Oct. 15 to answer for calling Canadian Islamic Rights activist a liar [Globe & Mail]
- Star public editor: A clear case of in-house plagiarism [J-Source]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- SciAm Apologizes for Deleting Blogger’s Post on Being Called a ‘Whore’ [Jezebel]
- On Science, Communication, Respect and Coming Back from Mistakes [Wired] (via @janelangille)
- BuzzFeed chief accuses traditional media of ‘giving up on young people’ [The Drum] (via @journalismnews)
- 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Writing Your Travel Article [Freelance Strategist]
- Living on AIR: Strategies for freelancers [Poynter]
- Storytelling Is How We Survive [Contently]
- Researchers identify most common forms of plagiarism [Poynter]
- Fox News debuts bizarre, giant tablets in its outrageous new newsroom [The Verge] (via @datejieatcmg)
- So You Wrote A Blog Post: How To Get The Most Juice From Twitter [Mediabistro]
- Five Best Personal Project Management Tools [Lifehacker] (via @freelancersu)
This week on Story Board:
- The 5-Minute Freelancer Q&A #13 – Moira Farr: In this regular feature, Story Board asks Canadian writers to share a few details about their work habits and their strategies for navigating the ups and downs of freelance life…
- The Born Freelancer on Managing Writer’s Block: It is probably inevitable. You yourself may face it one day if you have not already. Like death and taxes there may be no way to actually avoid it. And for a creative person it is perhaps even more to be feared than either death or taxes. I’m talking about the dreaded writer’s block…
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 October 15, 2013 at 9:05 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
