Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Oct 8-15

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 Complete Guide to Fearless Freelancing [Explore Create Repeat] (via @cawcreative)
• Crowdfunding counts as taxable income, Revenue Canada says [CBC]
• Pacific Newspaper Group wants to reset image for readers and employees [J-Source]
• Canada's Alice Munro is awarded 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature [BBC] (via @twuc)
• Since When Do Plagiarists Deserve Praise? [Huffington Post] (via @sladurantaye)
• Why the Globe and Mail is 'incentivising newsroom staff' [Journalism.co.uk]
• Why La Presse spent $40 million on building a free tablet edition [Media Briefing] (via @NiemanLab)
• The TORO story comes to an end as online version is being discontinued [Canadian Magazines]
• Ezra Levant in court Oct. 15 to answer for calling Canadian Islamic Rights activist a liar [Globe & Mail]
• Star public editor: A clear case of in-house plagiarism [J-Source]

 

From the U.S. and beyond:

• SciAm Apologizes for Deleting Blogger's Post on Being Called a 'Whore' [Jezebel]
• On Science, Communication, Respect and Coming Back from Mistakes [Wired] (via @janelangille)
• BuzzFeed chief accuses traditional media of ‘giving up on young people' [The Drum] (via @journalismnews)
• 4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Writing Your Travel Article [Freelance Strategist]
• Living on AIR: Strategies for freelancers [Poynter]
• Storytelling Is How We Survive [Contently]
• Researchers identify most common forms of plagiarism [Poynter]
• Fox News debuts bizarre, giant tablets in its outrageous new newsroom [The Verge] (via @datejieatcmg)
• So You Wrote A Blog Post: How To Get The Most Juice From Twitter [Mediabistro]
• Five Best Personal Project Management Tools [Lifehacker] (via @freelancersu)

 

This week on Story Board:

• The 5-Minute Freelancer Q&A #13 - Moira Farr: In this regular feature, Story Board asks Canadian writers to share a few details about their work habits and their strategies for navigating the ups and downs of freelance life...

• The Born Freelancer on Managing Writer's Block: It is probably inevitable. You yourself may face it one day if you have not already. Like death and taxes there may be no way to actually avoid it. And for a creative person it is perhaps even more to be feared than either death or taxes. I’m talking about the dreaded writer’s block...

 

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.