Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Aug 2-8
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: Public Editor: Should the Globe fix or ban online comments? [Globe and Mail] Why Postmedia is opening a digital development lab in Kitchener-Waterloo [J-Source] […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 26-Aug 2
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: Why demanding to publish a suicide note is callous and unethical [The Tyee] Six months on the Chronicle Herald picket line [J-Source] From The […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 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: Kirstine Stewart leaving job as Twitter vice president [Toronto Star] How to be a faster writer [LinkedIn] We need to talk about The Walrus […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 12-18
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: Freelancers helped invent digital communications tools to build online networks [J-Source] Briarpatch surpasses fundraising goal [Masthead] Are Canadian public editors and ombuds independent enough […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 5-11
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: Postmedia announces plan to reduce $648 million debt [J-Source] Who still believes Postmedia is Canadian controlled? [The Tyee] Shrinking press galleries leave little time […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer June 28-July 4
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: The BBC is coming to Canada [Poynter] Global Reporting Centre, a new nonprofit, wants to tell the world’s biggest untold stories [Poynter] BBC announces […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer June 21-27
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: Columnist’s firing at B.C.-based Chinese paper stirs press-freedom concerns [Globe and Mail] Briarpatch magazine says it is on the brink, “running on empty” [Canadian […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer June 14- 20
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: Copyright-free material edging out Canadian educational texts [CBC] OWL Magazine launches current affairs website [Masthead] Crowd-sourced map tracks what’s happening to local news outlets […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer June 7-13
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: Announcing the Winners of the 39th National Magazine Awards [Magazine Awards] National Observer goes behind paywall [J-Source] Canada Periodical Fund changing with the times [J-Source] […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer May 31-Jun 6
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: Talks break down as Chronicle Herald bosses tender offer worse than proposed four months ago [Rabble] CBC doubling down on digital strategy and investigative […]
