Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer August 13-19
Once a week, we gather stories about the media business, journalism, writing, communications, and freelancing—with a Canadian focus—and share them in Off the Wire. Who needs a water cooler?
From Canada:
- Workshop: The Business of Writing and Editing [AMPA]
- Canadian Media Guild throws support to FRIENDS’ We Choose campaign [CMG]
- You Must Be This Conservative To Ride: The Inside Story of Postmedia’s Right Turn [Canadaland]
From The U.S. and beyond:
- How to Write a Helpful Headline People Will Want to Click [The Freelancer]
- How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism [Nieman Reports]
- 25 Editing Tips for Tightening Your Copy [The Write Life]
- Why you’re not hearing about America’s wars [Mother Jones]
- How to Launch a Freelance Writing Career: Answers to 5 Common Questions [The Write Life]
- 10 ways to get the writing juices flowing [PR Daily]
- How to tell good feedback from bad [Freelancers Union]
Recently on Story Board:
- Webinar — Covering Provincial Politics: Join us for a webinar that will introduce journalism students and less experienced reporters to the basics of covering provincial politics. You’ll learn who the key players are, which areas of policy are widely covered and which get less attention, how to find information and what it’s like to be part of the press gallery covering Premier Doug Ford…
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 August 18, 2019 at 7:00 pm by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
