Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Dec 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:
- Details of “e-book showdown” revealed by Canadian Writers Group’s Derek Finkle [Canadian Magazines]
- Holiday gifts for writers and editors [Masthead]
- Rogers Media to custom-publish magazine for Wal-Mart starting in April [Canadian Magazines]
- Blue Ant Media acquires Cottage Life Media [Masthead]
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Leamington Post, Windsor This Week shut down [Windsor Star] (via @jsource)
- Finding Karla author Paula Todd named top newsmaker of 2012 [Canadian Writers Group]
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Public Editor: Grammar nerds, this post is for you [Globe and Mail] (via @jsource)
From the U.S. and beyond:
- 24% of Americans say journalists are highly ethical, honest [Poynter]
- NYT editor: Journalism pre-dates newspapers and will outlast newspapers [GigaOM]
- Pay Wall Push: Why Newspapers Are Hopping Over the Picket Fence [New York Times]
- The Economist: Things looking ‘a bit less grim’ for U.S. newspapers [Romenesko]
- UK literary agency partners exclusively with Amazon to break authors into US [PaidContent] (@Mediagazer)
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Hearst’s Lawyers Now E-mailing Former Unpaid Interns [NY Mag] (via @NiemanLab)
- Longform journalism morphs in print as it finds a new home online [Poynter]
- Why journalists should explore the business side of news [Poynter]
- 3 Theses About The Daily’s Demise [The Atlantic]
- New York Times Seeks Buyouts From 30 in Newsroom [New York Times]
From Story Board last week:
- The E-Book Show Down, Parts One, Two and Three: E-books are emerging as the latest battleground between writers and print publishers seeking to monetize online content. In this “reset” moment, writers need to be sure they set a fair precedent early on… Series by Derek Finkle of the Canadian Writers Group.
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Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:30 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
