Freelancer’s Survival Guide Master Class next weekend in Vancouver
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If you live in the Vancouver area and are new to freelancing, there’s a crash course coming up this weekend that will teach you everything you need to know to set…
New Tyee Master Class series includes CMG Freelance-sponsored courses
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Vancouver publisher The Tyee has just announced their fall Master Class series and many of the eight upcoming courses will be of great interest to freelancers. CMG Freelance is sponsoring three…
CMG Freelance to sponsor Tyee MasterClass on The Art of Crowdfunding
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CMG Freelance is teaming up with The Tyee to sponsor a MasterClass on crowdfunding that’s scheduled for Saturday, May 30th. in Vancouver. The workshop, called The Art of Crowdfunding, will be…
The Tyee’s David Beers talks hiring, growth and the value of freelancers
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by Rachel Sanders David Beers says Canadian journalism is richer because of its freelancers. The former Editor in Chief of the Vancouver-based independent online magazine The Tyee has moved into an executive…
Advice from Canadian journalists on crafting the “perfect pitch”
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Besides being the kind that gets you a “yes” from an editor, what makes a pitch good? An original angle, a custom-tailored scope, timely, articulate, well-researched: all very important characteristics….
Breaking news, and breaking even (sometimes)
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By guest contributor Karen Wirsig It used to be that the capitalists who owned newspapers took care of the money and hired fleets of journalists mostly focused on covering the…
The new new journalism
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Shannon Rupp writes in The Tyee about “the really super new new journalism” in which journalists are “repeaters.” She describes an incident in which an editor paid a freelancer for…