Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer March 19-25
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:
- Maisonneuve editor-in-chief resigning; mag launches new website [J-Source]
- Q&A with Tom Gierasimczuk, editor-in-chief of newly revamped BCBusiness [J-Source]
- Using recycled magazine paper protects the environment, study says [Canadian Magazines]
- Job alert: Supervise reporters, earn high fives (but no salary) [Poynter]
- Chilling “Code of Conduct” at Library and Archives Canada [Writers Union] (via @tanyakyi)
- La Presse to launch free digital edition [Globe and Mail] (@sladurantaye)
- Writers coalitions against TC Media, Toronto Star new freelance contracts [J-Source]
- Sun News wants five-year digital basic cable deal [J-Source]
- Sun News host Ezra Levant issues rare apology for Roma ‘slurs’ [Globe and Mail]
- What does ‘robot reporting’ mean for journalism? [CBC’s The Current]
- Alberta Magazine Awards winners announced [Masthead]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- Freelancers Union Tackles Concerns of Independent Workers (NYT)
- The New Yorker Rejects Itself: A Quasi-Scientific Analysis of Slush Piles [The Review Review] (via @Mediabistro)
- Huffington Post deletes anti-Wal-Mart comments [Washington Post]
- Books Aren’t Dead Yet [Salon] (via @
JonathanMenon) - Online publications not sure how British regulatory scheme will affect them [Poynter]
- Why I Left News [Allyson Bird] (via @jayrosen_nyu)
- Editors’ feud: Fairfax boss fires back at Monthly ed’s email attack [Crikey] (via @LuigiBenetton)
- UK press-regulation defines “press” so broadly as to include tweeters, Facebook users, bloggers [BoingBoing] (via @tanyakyi)
From Story Board last week:
- Freelancer tax tips: If you’re starting to feel that creeping tax return dread, you might want to check out these tips we posted last year from The Born Freelancer…
- Are publishers delaying the magazines best practices guide?: With the recent uproar over freelance contracts, the time seems ripe for change in the Canadian magazine industry. Last year Story Board reported on the long-awaited best practices guide for the magazine industry, a set of guidelines that could help establish professional standards for magazine freelancers, editors and publishers…
- The TC Media controversy Storified: We’ve Storified the controversy over the new TC Media freelance agreement…
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 March 25, 2013 at 9:15 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
