Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Sept 4-9
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:
- Torstar to shuffle digital division [Globe and Mail]
- “Daddy What’s a Labour Reporter?” [Mickleblog]
- John Macfarlane on 10 years of The Walrus [Masthead]
- Yukon News sold to Black Press [J-Source]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- Who Pays Interns? [IB Times] (via @mediagazer)
- Discarded Print Journo Tries to Adapt to the Scary World of Freelancing [Mediabistro]
- The Pros and Cons of Being a Freelancer [Graphic Design Degree Hub] (via @freelance_hacks)
- Spike the gloom – journalism has a bright future [The Conversation] (via @mediagazer)
- Revving Up the Transcription Engine [The Freelance Strategist]
- 5 tools for smart planning and time management: Part 2 [Live to Write – Write to Live] (via @freelance_hacks)
- How to Avoid the 5 Biggest Time-Wasters in Freelance Writing [The Write Life] (via @freelance_hacks)
- Software seeks to measure women’s participation in journalism [Poynter]
- Divided we fall — Journalism matters; it’s time to start acting like we believe it [CJR]
- 10 revenue streams funding investigative journalism [Journalism.co.uk]
- College papers cutting back on print editions [Poynter]
This week on Story Board:
- Yes, we are worthy — making it in the freelance world: Hey you lucky Toronto freelancers, there’s another great event coming up for you in September: an evening of discussion with bestselling author Ann Douglas and Nicole Cohen, an assistant professor and researcher of cultural work and media labour…
- Links roundup! Image resources for bloggers: If you have a blog — and there are some who think that all freelance writers, authors and journalists should — you might have an image problem. Specifically, unless you’re a photographer, it can be hard to find decent pictures to break up the text and beautify your blog posts…
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 September 9, 2013 at 9:05 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
on September 9, 2013 at 10:25 am
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Thanks for sharing my post from Live to Write – Write to Live!
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on September 9, 2013 at 11:42 am
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It’s a great post!