Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Sept 7-12
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: Funding in-depth journalism in a time of scarcity [Medium] UBC gets $200,000 government grant for new Canadian journalism outlet [J-Source] The Globe and Mail […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Aug 30-Sept 6
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: St. John’s Telegram blasts sexist ‘trolls’ after backlash over feminism article [J-Source] What would journalists do if they could do journalism school over? [J-Source] Application […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Aug 23-29
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: If we want true images of events, we need to let photographers do their job [Globe and Mail] Exposing newsroom culture at the Toronto […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Aug 16-22
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: Globe and Mail, Ryerson, UBC nominated for Online Journalism Awards [J-Source] Liberals probe unpaid internships in federal government [CBC] CWA Canada is looking for […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Aug 9-15
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: If the ‘gig economy’ is booming, why is ‘freelance’ still considered a dirty word associated with failure? [National Post] Journalists need to fight to repeal […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Aug 2-8
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: Public Editor: Should the Globe fix or ban online comments? [Globe and Mail] Why Postmedia is opening a digital development lab in Kitchener-Waterloo [J-Source] […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 26-Aug 2
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: Why demanding to publish a suicide note is callous and unethical [The Tyee] Six months on the Chronicle Herald picket line [J-Source] From The […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 19-25
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: Kirstine Stewart leaving job as Twitter vice president [Toronto Star] How to be a faster writer [LinkedIn] We need to talk about The Walrus […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 12-18
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: Freelancers helped invent digital communications tools to build online networks [J-Source] Briarpatch surpasses fundraising goal [Masthead] Are Canadian public editors and ombuds independent enough […]
Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer July 5-11
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: Postmedia announces plan to reduce $648 million debt [J-Source] Who still believes Postmedia is Canadian controlled? [The Tyee] Shrinking press galleries leave little time […]
