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:
- What happens when a mid-sized city loses its last daily newspaper? Guelph, Ontario offers a case study [Nieman Lab]
- Drawing a line between the personal and the professional when it comes to protest [J-Source]
- Alberta Magazines Conference opens registration [Canadian Magazines]
- Maclean’s hit by layoffs [J-Source]
- A nine-step plan to fix the Vancouver Sun and Province [J-Source]
- Your Guide to Winter/Spring 2017 Canadian Magazine Writing Contests [Magazine Awards]
From The U.S. and beyond:
- 10 Must-Try Tools If You Love Freelance Writing [The Write Life]
- Road to 1 million: The Guardian has gone from 15,000 to 200,000 paying ‘members’ in the past year [Digiday]
- Start a successful freelance business – even when you’re on a time budget [Freelancers Union]
- Two dozen freelance journalists told us the best places to write [Columbia Journalism Review]
- 6 journalists, 2 freelancers, arrested at inauguration protests [Freelancers Union]
- What makes a good pitch? NPR editors weigh in [Poynter]
Recently on Story Board:
- Panel discussion to launch Journalism in Crisis book February 9 in Toronto: Toronto journalists and freelancers, mark your calendars for next Thursday, February 9 at 5:30 p.m. for “The Future of Journalism in the Canadian News Media Ecology,” a free panel discussion and reception to launch the book Journalism in Crisis: Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada…
- Canadian freelancers turn to the US market to secure higher-paying gigs: When Canadian-based freelancer Katherine O’Brien started working as a web content and blog writer, she hadn’t made a conscious decision to publish with US companies to make a decent living. Yet for over a year and a half, O’Brien has written mostly for companies south of the Canadian border…
- Loving the work without working alone: Freelancers are often idealized as isolated entrepreneurs. Nicole Cohen addresses this idea of the lone wolf writer head-on in her book, Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age…
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