Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 30-August 6
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:
- Carleton launches crowdfunding campaign to build J-Source/ProjetJ office [J-Source]
- CBC meteorologist breaks Guinness World Record for Longest Career as a Weather Forecaster [CBC]
- Canadian travel publishing hits its stride [J-Source] (via @twuc)
- Torstar profit plunges 44 per cent [Globe and Mail] (via @sladurantaye)
- Moody’s sounds warning about Postmedia [Globe and Mail] (via @sladurantaye)
From the U.S. and beyond:
- Washington Post to be sold to Amazon founder for $250 million in cash [Washington Post]
- New York Times Company Sells Boston Globe [New York Times]
- 16 newsgathering tools every journalist should know about [Journalism.co.uk]
- What Does a Literary Agent Want to See When They Google You? [The Write Life] (via @twuc)
- Website counts male, female bylines in New York Times [Poynter]
- Pressfolios, a new way for journalists to collect and present their work [J-Source]
- The Bradley Manning verdict is still bad news for the press [Guardian] (via @NiemanLab)
- Publishers, you need to pay the writers [Overland] (via @paythewriters)
- Should We Write What We Know? [Opinionator] (via @twuc)
- Buzzfeed ruins the written word for everyone forever [Melville House]
From Story Board last week:
- NDP petition calls for Urban Worker Strategy: The NDP has launched a petition calling for the implementation of a “pan-Canadian Urban Worker Strategy” to better support the growing number of Canadians who suffer under precarious working conditions…
- New audio app offers collaborative potential: “It’s like Google Docs, but for audio,” says The Scope at Ryerson of the new app they’re developing…
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 6, 2013 at 9:00 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
