This article is written by Vanessa Chiasson, a freelance writer based in Ottawa who specializes in travel and human interest stories. Freelance writer Julian Hoffmann got a lot of laughs…
This essay is written by Vanessa Chiasson, a freelance writer based in Ottawa who specializes in travel and human interest stories. She challenged herself to negotiate her rate on every assignment in 2022. Here is part one of two on her results.
by Liz Gallo In August of 2018, I joined Medium’s Partner Program. For the uninitiated, Medium is a publishing platform founded by Ev Williams who also co-founded Blogger and Twitter….
If you’re a writer or visual artist who is affiliated with Access Copyright, it’s time to submit your claim for works published between 1997 and 2016. The 2018 Access Copyright…
The 2017 Access Copyright Payback claim period is open from April 1st to May 31. If you’re a writer or visual artist who was affiliated with Access Copyright as of December 31,…
This post is the tenth in a series called “E-Lancer Writes,” exploring the working conditions, rights and collective organizing strategies of freelance journalists, interns and other low-wage or temporary digital…
In December of 2013 we posted a story about Venture Publishing in Alberta. We’d been hearing from a lot of freelancers who were having trouble getting paid for their work in…
by Priya Duguay Toronto International Film Festival is creating quite the buzz again this year as a flurry of fans, film aficionados, and film fraternity (aka. Hollywood’s elite) arrive for…
by Rachel Sanders Freelance photographers have something to celebrate this week: a little pushback from newspapers against overreaching contracts for concert photography. The Montreal Gazette, La Presse, Le Journal de…
by Rachel Sanders $5 per post. $0.02 per word. It’s numbers like these that make a freelance writer’s heart sink. And there’s no shortage of jobs with this kind of rock…
