Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer April 30–May 6, 2012
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: Advertisers buy ‘great ideas’: CAJ magazine panelist [Masthead] And the 35th anniversary National Magazine Award nominees are… [National Magazine Awards Foundation blog] Will the […]
Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer April 23–29, 2012
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: Federal scientists closely monitored during polar conference [CBC News] (via @cmgveep) Three Canadians nominated for Commonwealth Book Prize [National Post/Afterword] At CAJ’s digital news […]
Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer April 16–22, 2012
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: Amateur sports mourns death of veteran Toronto Star reporter Randy Starkman [Yahoo Canada/Canadian Press] Government, private media take their shots at CBC [Canadian Media […]
Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer April 9–15, 2012
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: Publishers “blindsided” by 25 per cent increase in Indigo co-op fees [Quill & Quire blog] CBC’s bet on satellite radio could pay dividends [Globe […]
Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer April 2–April 8, 2012
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: Metro brings its battle for readers to Saskatchewan [Globe & Mail] Google lets publishers avoid paywalls with pay for microsurveys [Canadian Magazines] Metered pay […]
Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer March 26–April 1, 2012
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: Mike Holmes feels “terrible” over lost subscription money after magazine stops printing [TheStar.com] Russell Smith memoir, Blindsided, launches nonfiction ebook series from Canadian Writers […]
Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer March 19–25, 2012
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: These American Lies: The agony and ecstasy of fact checking [The Walrus Blog] (via @timfalconer) Help us mark 50 years of Report on Business […]
Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer March 12–18, 2012
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: Margaret Atwood: Deeper into the Twungle [NYBooks.com] (via @dylan_robertson) ‘There is nothing called freedom’ for journalists working in ethnic media [J-Source] (via @asamur) Keeping […]
Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer March 5–11, 2012
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 writer Andrew Westoll’s chimp memoir takes prestigious Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction [Toronto Star] Canada Writes poetry prize accepting submissions now to […]
Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Feb. 27–March 4, 2012
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 reports profit jump, but outlook ‘challenged’ [Canada.com] Torstar book publishing revenues drop $5.1m [TheBookseller.com] To learn what works (quickly), Canada’s National Post dives […]
