Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 16-22
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:
- Pagemasters North America: Friend or Foe to the Journalism Industry? [J-Source]
- Chatelaine magazine launches weekly radio program [Canadian Magazines]
- Sun Media’s bad week [Steve Ladurantaye]
- Sun Media cutting 360 jobs, shutting down 8 publications and 3 free dailies [J-Source]
- Memo: Sun Media Layoffs [Steve Ladurantaye]
- Working together helps us all punch above our weight for freelancers in danger [J-Source]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- Can Photojournalism Survive in the Instagram Era? [Mother Jones] (via @mathewi)
- Freelancers: advice from an editor [Journalism Festival] (via @journochat)
- Want readers? Hire a copy editor! [Kobo Writing Life] (via @jaclynlaw)
- Penny for Your Thoughts [Literary Review] (via @paythewriters)
- More news organizations try civilizing online comments with help of social media [Poynter]
- Freelancers can now pitch to publishers using Newsmodo [Journalism.co.uk]
From Story Board last week:
- Airchecker: An online resource for radio professionals: Are you a radio freelancer? Then there’s a new online home for you to explore: Airchecker – originally a news blog for Canadian radio professionals – has launched a social network…
- The Born Freelancer on the Rebirth of Radio Drama: Just over a year ago I wrote about the death of drama at CBC Radio, that is, the format – not any behind the scenes backbiting! Lamenting the end of a noble and legendary genre on the Mothercorp I concluded, in part…
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 July 22, 2013 at 9:10 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
