Digital newsrooms moving towards unionization
It’s been a big summer for unions and new media. The past few weeks have seen a string of stories about digital media workers organizing — employees at Gawker, Salon, Vice and The Guardian US have all voted to unionize since the beginning of June. This week, BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti told his employees that he doesn’t think unionizing would […]
Posted on August 20, 2015 at 9:00 am by editor · LEAVE A COMMENT · Tagged with: CMG, digital media, organizing, union organizing, unions
Incubating ideas: Where do you get your ideas and how do you organize them?
by Lesley Evans Ogden The start of a new year is an interesting time. It’s a period of looking both forward and back. For me, the dawn of 2014 marked a phase of furious pitching, which cast my mind towards wondering how other freelancers come up with story ideas. Where do their ideas come from? […]
Posted on February 20, 2014 at 9:05 am by editor · LEAVE A COMMENT · Tagged with: Advice, ideas, organizing, pitching