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Straight talk about unpaid internships:Last month’s Will Work For Exposure conference at Ryerson University may have been the first time a public conversation was held in Canada about unpaid internships. The panel on internships included this presentation from Andrew Langille, a Toronto-based lawyer and graduate student...
Defamation clause in new Canada Wide Media contract remains unchanged:Last week it was brought to our attention that Canada Wide Media, which publishes of a variety of magazines including Westworld and BC Business, has updated its contract for freelance contributors. Back in May, Story Board reported that the CWM contract contained a clause that places responsibility for libel suits resulting from a published work squarely on the writer’s shoulders…
I am so sorry to hear about OpenFile. I wrote for the Waterloo region but then they closed that section. Still, I thought it was a great concept and was hoping to see it challenge the low-paying print newspapers (freelance market).
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I am so sorry to hear about OpenFile. I wrote for the Waterloo region but then they closed that section. Still, I thought it was a great concept and was hoping to see it challenge the low-paying print newspapers (freelance market).