Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Jan 26-Feb 1
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 problem with Postmedia [Toronto Star] Another Canadian paper went -30- today [Poynter] 149-year-old Canadian paper’s final front page is pretty much perfect [Poynter] […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Jan 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: Chronicle Herald suspends layoff notices, says union [Toronto Star] Canada’s national fabric is paying price for depletion of journalistic resources: Hébert [Toronto Star] Op-ed: […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Jan 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: Chronicle Herald’s newsroom union votes to strike [CBC] Toronto Star closes Vaughan printing plant, cuts newsroom jobs [Globe and Mail] Chronicle Herald staff take labour […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Jan 7-11
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: Stop writing for the Halifax Herald [Halifax Media Co-op] To my former bosses at the Chronicle Herald [The Coast] The 2016 Digital Publishing Awards […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Dec 31-Jan 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: Fair contracts for authors [TWUC] SABEW’s Best in Business Canada competition [SABEW] That was the year that was: a look back at 2015 in […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Dec 22-30
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: How My Business Ate My Money in 2015 [Rags 2 Reasonable] The freedom of freelancing (and other ironies) [Editors Toronto Blog] The union you […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Dec 15-21
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: Toronto Star editor on why they decided to close comments [J-Source] PWAC chat recap: How to survive as a freelance writer [PWAC Toronto] Toronto […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Dec 8-14
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: Professional Association Profile: CMG Freelance [The Jenn Report] Entries open for National Magazine Awards [Canadian Magazines] Social media shakes things up in journalism [J-Source] Call […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Dec 1-7
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: Important dates for the 2016 National Magazine Awards [Magazine Awards] Help update the pay rates for work in factual TV [CMG] National Newsmedia Council […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Nov 24-30
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: Fahmy on foreign reportage and citizenship rights [J-Source] Postmedia brass pocketed bonuses for Sun acquisition [Globe and Mail] Digital Publishing Awards launched [J-Source] The Unbearable Whiteness of […]
