Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Feb 4-10
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:
- Writers’ Union members out in the cold [Toronto Star] (via @twuc)
- Canadian fiction writers’ average income: reality cheque please! [Descant] (via @Canadianmags)
- CBC president warns of ‘dark clouds on the horizon’ [Globe and Mail]
- Ottawa Citizen offering buyouts; five laid off at Postmedia’s parliamentary bureau [J-Source]
- Why are so many journalists willing to write for free? [J-Source]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- The Comprehensive Guide To Setting Your Freelance Rates [wplift] (via @freelance_hacks)
- 5 Things Freelancers Need To Know About Marketing [Gro Traffic] (via @freelance_hacks)
- Say Goodbye to Winter Blues [Freelancers Union]
- How To Gain Confidence As A Freelance Writer: 3 Ways [Write To Done] (via @freelancersu)
- 7 Free Tools to Organize and Prioritize Your Writing Life [The Write Life] (via @freelancersu)
- Welcome to Radiotopia, a podcast network with the aesthetics of story-driven public radio [Nieman Lab]
- 3 Journalism lessons from Philip Seymour Hoffman [Poynter]
This week on Story Board:
- Warning to freelancers: The Revelation Magazine: Freelance writers, photographers and web developers are advised that a Toronto-based startup magazine is behind on payments to its contributors…
- Employment insurance for freelancers: Did you know that freelancers are eligible to collect employment insurance benefits? It was news to me. At a recent CMG freelance seminar, Toronto tax specialist Sunny Widerman explained a recent change that gives self-employed people access to certain kinds of EI special benefits…
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 February 10, 2014 at 9:05 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
