Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer April 14-20
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:
- Latest round of cuts at CBC represents massive upheaval in newsgathering capacity [CMG]
- CBC says conclusions from Ghomeshi report “troubling and disappointing” [J-Source]
- What CBC employees are saying about the latest layoffs [J-Source]
- Jian Ghomeshi scandal report leads to CBC ‘severing ties’ with ex-head of radio, HR director [Toronto Star]
- Report on Ghomeshi scandal by workplace laywer Janice Rubin [CBC]
- Whoa, Tyee readers pledge more than $75,000 for election journalism [Tyee]
- Map: Toronto resources for emerging media workers [CMG Freelance]
- Recording interviews using a digital voice recorder [Luigi Benetton]
- Global News Kills Koch Brothers Story, Fires Journalist [Canadaland]
- More contract work and internships mean new journalists must learn their rights [J-Source]
From The U.S. and beyond:
- Gawker is making unionizing look easy [Washington Post]
- Why We’ve Decided to Organize [Gawker]
- How to Handle 5 Sticky Situations With Sources [The Freelancer]
- How a Freelance Journalist Used Content Marketing to Double Her Income [The Write Life]
- 6 Months Into Freelancing, 6 Lessons Learned (the hard way) [The Life of M]
- 5 Books About Writing Every Freelancer Should Read [The Freelancer]
- 5 things you need to work from home (without going bananas) [Freelancers Union]
- Freelancers are *still* trying to get paid by HudsonMOD publisher [Romenesko]
Last week on Story Board:
- Media Works launch party April 29th: A media/labour project that has been in the works for several months is now ready to go, and there’s going to be a party to celebrate…
- Unpaid internships — A moral dilemma for journalism students and the media community: Journalism students across Ontario are struggling with the moral dilemma of participating in unpaid internships while trying to build experience for their portfolios…
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 April 20, 2015 at 9:00 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
