Massey College Press Club Night hosts Christie Blatchford
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Why not check it out? The last Press Club event proved to be an interesting evening.
CWG’s Derek Finkle on Nino Ricci’s letter to the Globe
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We asked Derek Finkle, founder of the Canadian Writers Group, which represents independent writers, about typical compensation for freelance travel writing and whether it’s common for dailies to leave an invoice unpaid for six months, as the Globe did in Ricci’s case.
Toronto Standard aims to give web writers a fair shake
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Launching April 7, Toronto Standard will join an already crowded field of sites presenting Toronto news. But rather than follow the recent trend of focusing on the hyper-local, the site…
Nino Ricci gives the Globe a thrashing
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In an open letter to the Globe posted on his own site, author Nino Ricci feigns concern for the paper’s financial situation while castigating them for failing to pay him for a travel story published six months ago.
Newspaper Guild-CWA advocating on behalf of unpaid HuffPo writers
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Poynter.org has posted a press release from the Newspaper Guild-CWA in which it asks writers who contribute work to the Huffington Post for free to cease doing so until the…
Not all news jobs are created equal
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The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, in its own words, a “a nonpartisan ‘fact tank,'” released its State of the Media Report for 2011, an attempt to evaluate the robustness of media in the U.S.
Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards go national
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Submissions open Monday, March 14 for the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award.
Union asks freelancers to stand with Metroland staffers
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Metroland newspapers in the Ottawa area are running ads looking for freelancers to fill the pages of its newspapers, as staff reporters at the Kanata Kourier-Standard, Ottawa This Week and other Metroland papers enter their first negotiations to establish a union.
Freelance class action cheques hit the mail – should we be celebrating?
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Freelancers are finally seeing some cash from the Robertson copyright infringement case, but should they be celebrating?
Longing for long form
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As it gets tougher and tougher for journalists to successfully pitch long-form pieces to traditional publications — without mostly writing them first — other options are opening up.