Re-evaluating HuffPo’s unpaid bloggers
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On his Mixed Media blog at Forbes.com, Jeff Bercovici offers a new angle to consider in the recent lawsuit that unpaid writers have brought against the Huffington Post and AOL….
St. Joseph Media keeps mum about Torontoist plans
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By Ian Harvey Three weeks after the announcement Torontoist had got hitched to St. Joseph Media, there’s a cone of silence on what the future holds for the newlyweds. Attempts…
Asking Arianna for change
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Open letters to publications’ management are a last-ditch tactic to right wrongs and spur change—but as we’ve seen recently, they can be effective. Now, adding his voice to many others…
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…
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.
La Presse to go digital-only
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In the face of declining print subscriptions and optimistic praise for digital publications such as The Daily, Montreal daily La Presse has announced it intends to move to an online-only…
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.
“Web 3.0 is the era of experts — not writers”
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The above quote is from CEO Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com, a “learn anything” site that repurposes content from around the web. When he began his venture, he reportedly said that the site wasn’t reliant on Google, and that he could build a loyal base of visitors without it.