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:
- Entries now being accepted for the 2013 CAJ Awards program [CNW] (via @TorontoCAJ)
- Call for submissions: 2013 National Magazine Awards [Magazine Awards] (via @Canadianmags)
- The top journalism stories of 2013 [J-Source]
From the U.S. and beyond:
- For newspaper stocks, 2013 was a surprisingly good year [Poynter]
- 7 New Year’s Resolutions Every Writer Should Have [Copypress] (via @wordpundit)
- The six most interesting things that happened in media this year, according to me [GigaOm]
- Five mistakes that are killing self-published authors [Warrior Writers]
- How the Village Voice and other alt-weeklies lost their voice in 2013 [Al Jazeera America] (via @Mediagazer)
This week on Story Board:
- The Born Freelancer on Classic “Media” Movies: Over the years I think certain classic entertainment movies about media have had as much impact on my life’s decision to work in media and as a freelancer as did any actual journalism. As a freelancer, there are so few guiding lights, mentors or road maps along the way when you begin that you make many different sources into influences as you construct your own unique journey. Mainstream movies being no exception…
- 2014: A New Era for Freelancers, Solidarity and Unionism: As freelancers we cherish our independence. That’s why few could be faulted for mistaking “freelancer’s union” as a dictionary illustration of an oxymoron. Yet we’ve just come through an unprecedented year of shared trials…
Spot a story you think we should include in next week’s Off the Wire? Email the link to editor@thestoryboard.ca or tweet us at @storyboard_ca.
Posted on January 6, 2014 at 9:05 am by editor · · Tagged with: news, Off the Wire
