Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 9-15
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:
- Who breaks news first: Media or Twitter? [Toronto Star] (via @jsource)
- Freelancers Fight Back [LJR]
- COPA 2013: Meet the Judges [Masthead]
- Pagemasters North America: Friend or foe to the journalism industry? [J-Source]
- The State of the Unpaid Internship [Hazlitt]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- Can’t stop, won’t stop: PRX introduces an app for unending audio storytelling [Nieman Lab]
- Harper’s Magazine is Finally Ready for the Digital Revolution [Mashable]
- 9 steps to creating engaging content [Mari Smith] (via @CraigSilverman)
- Taking Control of Contracts: What Every Creative Should Know [99U] (via @freelancersu)
- On Getting Paid (And Knowing Your Worth) [Virginia Sole-Smith] (via @paythewriters)
- Why students who want to land an internship next summer should start preparing now [Poynter]
- App Store at 5 years old: 12 must-have apps for journalists [Journalism.co.uk]
- The Real Future of Journalism? Radio. [Slate] (via @Sean_Rasmussen)
- Women Journalists in Iraq [Women For Women International] (via @journochat)
- Advice for working abroad as a freelance journalist [Journalism.co.uk]
From Story Board last week:
- “A topic is not a story.” A postmortem of a postmortem on Columbia: One of the most difficult but also most valuable lessons I’ve learned in making the transition from scientist to science journalist is that a topic is not a story. Scientists are often driven by passion for topics – bat behavior, particle acceleration, human genome sequencing… Journalists, in contrast, need a narrative. It’s their vehicle to tempt readers to embark on a story and stay aboard for the ride…
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 15, 2013 at 9:10 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
