Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer May 28-June 3
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:
- Official list of Globe and Mail employees who took the buyouts [J-Source]
- CBC music radio stations will now carry commercials [Canada.com] (via @wolfewylie)
- Editors’ tips for breaking into business magazines [PWAC Toronto]
- Winnipeg Free Press restricts online comments in effort to reduce “digital diatribe” [J-Source]
- Frank magazine eyeing digital return [Masthead]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- The painful realities behind the demise of the Chicago Sun-Times photo desk [PaidContent]
- Why all would-be journalists need to blog [Journalism News]
- Chicago Sun-Times will train reporters on ‘iPhone photography basics’ [Poynter]
- How to Survive Summer Break When You’re a Parent and Self-Employed [Editor Mom]
- 13 ways to get your journalism project crowdfunded [Poynter]
- Veteran freelancer Kelly James-Enger: “There is plenty of work to go around” [Urban Muse Writer]
- The art of the interview [CJR] (via @mediabistro)
- Chicago Sun-Times lays off its photo staff [Chicago Tribune]
- The Guardian has shown us the future of journalism, and it is — coffee shops! [PaidContent]
- The myth of plateauing ebook sales [Joe Wikert]
- Facebook Responds To Ad Boycott, Vows To Work Harder To Prevent Hate Speech [AllFacebook]
- Since Twitter hasn’t built a correction feature, here are 3 things journalists can do instead [Poynter]
- Unpaid internships and a culture of privilege are ruining journalism [Guardian] (via @HG_Watson)
From Story Board last week:
- Media Spot Me streamlines the interview chase: A Waterloo-based start up launched earlier this year aims to help journalists find high quality interviews without the frustrations of lengthy online searches…
- Travel writing links roundup: If you’re planning to write about your summer travels this year, take a break from prowling for flight sales and hotel deals and check out a few of these travel writing posts we’ve run across recently…
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 June 3, 2013 at 9:15 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
