Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Feb 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:

• The Landsberg Award is now accepting entries [Newspapers Canada]
• Four lessons from losing a journalism job [J-Source]
• The Ontario Pension Plan: What's in it for freelancers? [Living Freelance]
• Rogers Media publishing and radio divisions hit by layoffs [J-Source]
• Blame Canadian media woes on owners, managers, regulators—not the "failed business model" [J-Source]
• Pacific Content’s podcasts are all sponsored by companies — but at least there aren’t any ads [Nieman Lab]
• New research projects wants to find out what happens when journalists leave  journalism [J-Source]
• What the Gateway going digital means for campus media [J-Source]

From The U.S. and beyond:

• How Freelancers Can Deal With Sexual Harassment [The Freelancer]
• This Type of Magazine Pays Well, and You Probably Haven’t Pitched There Yet [The Write Life]
• Six Freelancing Rules That Aren’t Confusing at All [The Freelancer]
• Easy Tricks for Spotting Freelance Job Scams [Freelance Writing Jobs]
• The thorny ethics of embedding as a freelancer with do-gooders [CJR]
• Vice UK staff move to unionise to 'share in the success' of media company [The Guardian]

Last week on Story Board:

• Tax Tips webinar for members on February 25th: Tax season is approaching, freelancers. If that thought makes you sweat, we’ve got an upcoming webinar for members that’s sure to take some of the stress out of the bookkeeping side of your business...

 

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.