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:
- Canada’s top court to hear Vice Media fight RCMP demand for reporter materials [National Post]
- Give Competition Bureau Teeth to Protect the Public Interest, Says Hedy Fry [The Tyee]
- No newspaper is safe including London Free Press: Postmedia CEO [CBC]
- The Postmedia/Torstar newspaper deal is cynical and destructive [CAJ]
- Union urges feds to help news media after Postmedia, Torstar shutter local papers [iPolitics]
- Torstar and Postmedia swapped 41 newspapers total this week, and are closing most of them [J-Source]
- What Canadian journalists can learn from the life and career of Gord Downie [J-Source]
From The U.S. and beyond:
- The news industry has a sexual harassment problem. #NowWhat? [Nieman Reports]
- Can co-working with virtual strangers enhance your freelancing business? [Freelancers Union]
- Global press freedom plunges to worst level this century [The Guardian]
- How to Stay Productive During the Holidays [Freelance Writing Jobs]
- How to write about Nazis [Poynter]
- 10 lessons from 10 years of freelancing [Freelancers Union]
- IFJ survey: One in two women journalists suffer gender-based violence at work [IFJ]
Recently on Story Board:
- The Born Freelancer on Drawing a Line in the Sand: Every working freelancer will eventually confront employer demands so egregious, so patently unfair, that they will be forced to draw a line in the sand and say “no.” Most of us are hesitant to do so for fear of the consequences…
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