Off the Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer August 21-27 2012

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:

• Rogers Communications to acquire Score Media [Globe and Mail]
• Random House launches online magazine Hazlitt [Masthead]
• Postmedia implements paywalls on four newspapers' websites [J-Source]
• Masthead revenue ranking released [Canadian Magazines]

From the U.S. and beyond:

• Zakaria explains plagiarism, resigns from Yale board to reduce load [Poynter]
• No, metered-content walls won’t save journalism [GigaOm]
• Real-time reporting: Liveblogging lessons for digital journalists [journalism.co.uk] (via @journochat)
• How the Internet is giving the quest narrative new relevance for journalism [Poynter]
• 6 questions journalists should be able to answer before pitching a story [Poynter]
• The billion-dollar question: What is journalism for? [GigaOm] (via @mathewi)
• Are Alternative Weeklies Toast? [New York Times] (via ‏@mediagazer)

Spot a story you think we should include in next week's Off the Wire? Email the link to editor@thestoryboard.ca or tweet us at @storyboard_ca.