PWAC Toronto’s 2011/2012 professional development series
Starting next month and running until next May, PWAC Toronto is hosting a series of evening seminars for writers, focusing on professional development topics such as alternate revenue sources, health and science writing, and narrative non-fiction. After the 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. seminars, which will take place either at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community […]
What’s the Word on the Street in 2011?
It’s that time of year again. The Word on the Street festival is a celebration of literacy, with a focus on magazines and books. Every year it evolves a little more, and since its first year in Toronto in 1990, WOTS has expanded to five other cities across Canada. This Sunday, September 25, Halifax, Toronto, […]
Event: Creative Freelancer Conference, June 23-24, Chicago
The Creative Freelancer Conference, sponsored by HOW magazine and Marketing Mentor, is happening in Chicago on June 23 and 24. Conference attendees will get: ● expert advice on marketing and finances ● insight into the fine art of balancing your work and home life ● details on developing a viable business plan ● plus ample […]
Event: Access Denied, presented by CJFE
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression presents Access Denied, a panel discussion on the state of access to information in Canada, on May 10. Hosted by Anna Maria Tremonti, of CBC Radio’s The Current, the event’s panellists include the Canadian Press’s Ottawa deputy bureau chief, Dean Beeby; former Information Commissioner John Reid; and Paula Todd, investigative […]
May Day event: Screenings of two silent films about labour
What better way to mark May Day this year than with two classic silent films about labour struggles? At the Revue Cinema, Silent Toronto presents Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike (1921), to be preceded by Charlie Chaplin’s short film Work (1915); both films will feature live piano accompaniment by William O’Meara. The event is part of the […]
Blabbing with Blatchford
Last night Massey College hosted the third Press Club Night, a series devoted to “celebrating Toronto’s community of journalists.” Well known Globe columnist and author Christie Blatchford sat down with the college’s master, journalist and former chair of the Canadian Journalism Foundation John Fraser, in a snug, book-lined room, with 30 or so others (mostly […]
Massey College Press Club Night hosts Christie Blatchford
Why not check it out? The last Press Club event proved to be an interesting evening.
Star editor slams Globe cover
We hear that Star editor Michael Cooke made fun of the the Globe over its choice of chocolate over Egypt for an above-the-fold cover story last week – in the middle of the African country’s revolution. Cooke was speaking at Toronto’s Massey College. A little bird told us he said something like “If the Globe knows what it’s doing, […]
Unlocking the cells at the Toronto Star
Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke will be the guest at Massey College‘s Press Club Night on February 16. John Fraser, the Master of the college, which houses a few 19th century presses in the basement, will host the conversation based on Cooke’s answer to his question of “how many new journalists” the paper had to hire […]
Freelancers meet at Toronto’s historic Gladstone
The Gladstone Hotel’s Art Room turned out to be an apt spot to launch the new alliance between Canada’s only agency for freelance writers and a major media union. A historic hotel — and an age-old problem. The problem is figuring out how to give collective voice and leverage to people who are, by law […]
