Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Feb 3-9
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:
- MLA Andrew Weaver Wins Libel Decision Against National Post [The Tyee]
- Layoffs and voluntary buyout program announced at Postmedia [J-Source]
- Postmedia cuts national writer jobs, offers newsroom buyouts [Globe and Mail]
- Freelancers fighting full copyright claim by non-profit media company [Rabble]
- How Internet journalists *can* organize [CMG]
- Egypt’s jailing of Mohamed Fahmy: A timeline [Toronto Star]
- As Postmedia Withers, Is a Newspaper-less Vancouver Imminent? [The Tyee]
From The U.S. and beyond:
- 4 common productivity tips that are actually the worst [Mashable]
- 10 Apps That Will Make Any Freelancer More Creative [The Freelancer]
- The Most Important Skills You Need to Start a Writing Career [Lifehacker]
- Freelance vs. day job: Don’t compromise just to pay the bills [Freelancers Union]
- How kill fees ruin writers, hurt magazines and destroy journalism [Scott Carney]
- How to find details that make a powerful story [Poynter]
- The Key to Keeping Clients Happy, Even When Delivering Bad News [The Write Life]
- Canadian media startups are watching the watchdogs [Al Jazeera]
- Financial Times agrees to pay all interns minimum wage for the first time [Press Gazette]
Last week on Story Board:
- The Born Freelancer on Striving for Perfection: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the relationship between those ideas which inspire me most and the monumental task of transforming them into reality…
- Radio freelancers battle for copyright: In the two and a half years since I’ve been the editor of Story Board, I’ve posted all kinds of news and opinion pieces about negotiations and disputes over freelance contracts…
- Concerts in support of CBC planned for Ottawa and Montreal: Two citizen groups are holding concerts in support of CBC over the coming weeks…
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 February 9, 2015 at 9:00 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
