Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Oct 12-17
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: CBC’s senior reporters and anchors reflect on a changing media landscape [J-Source] Applications open for the 2016 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship [J-Source] […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Oct 4-11
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: To script or not to script: that is the audio storyteller’s question [The Doc Project] Applications open for Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellowship [Canadian […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Sept 27-Oct 3
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: Rogers Media reduces Maclean’s, Chatelaine publication schedules and takes four magazines online only [J-Source] Rogers Media goes digital-first with a bang in its magazine […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Sept 20-26
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: Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable is part of a journalist’s job, say panelists [J-Source] Magazine industry fight over too many awards leads to split […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Sept 13-19
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: Walrus fiction editor quits over magazine’s push for “family-friendly” stories [Globe and Mail] Anti-TPP day of action highlights threat to journalism [J-Source] Why Ian […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Sept 7-12
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: Funding in-depth journalism in a time of scarcity [Medium] UBC gets $200,000 government grant for new Canadian journalism outlet [J-Source] The Globe and Mail […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Aug 30-Sept 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: St. John’s Telegram blasts sexist ‘trolls’ after backlash over feminism article [J-Source] What would journalists do if they could do journalism school over? [J-Source] Application […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Aug 23-29
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: If we want true images of events, we need to let photographers do their job [Globe and Mail] Exposing newsroom culture at the Toronto […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Aug 16-22
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: Globe and Mail, Ryerson, UBC nominated for Online Journalism Awards [J-Source] Liberals probe unpaid internships in federal government [CBC] CWA Canada is looking for […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Aug 9-15
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: If the ‘gig economy’ is booming, why is ‘freelance’ still considered a dirty word associated with failure? [National Post] Journalists need to fight to repeal […]
