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 Tyee goes national, putting a full-time investigative reporter in Ottawa [Canadian Magazines]
• Newspapers Canada reveals proposal for a national press council [J-Source]
• The future of immigrant journalism in Canada [J-Source]
• CMG congratulates members at MBS [CMG]

 

From the U.S. and beyond:

• Sorry everyone: the future of journalism is still up in the air [Salon]
• A graphic designer wrote a fantastic response after he claims Showtime asked him to work for free [Happyplace]
• Freelancing in War Zones: Serious Journalists Left with Little Protection [Longreads] (via @freelance_hacks)
• Journalism Funded [The Awl]
• 7 Ways to Work Better… By Working Less [Contently]
• HuffPo Will Never Hire You [Mediabistro]
• I Will Not Be Returning to Ferguson [Ryan Schuessler] (via @Mediagazer]
• Lauren Bacall and the value of reading your old stories [Poynter]
• James Foley and fellow freelancers: exploited by pared-back media outlets [The Guardian]
• 6 ways to stay productive while working from home [Freelancers Union]
• Which journalists have been arrested in Ferguson? [Poynter]
• Everything you need to know about freelance rates, pricing, and fees [Freelancers Union]
• Ask A Freelancer: How Do You Stay Organized? [Contently]
• 12 Writers Who Are Using Google+ in Cool Ways [The Write Life]

 

Last week on Story Board:

• The Born Freelancer on the Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation, Part 1: “If you don’t know where you’ve been, you’re never going to know where you are going” says Kealy Wilkinson, Executive Director of the Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation. The Born Freelancer recently sat down with Ms. Wilkinson to discuss a wide range of relevant topics past, present and future of particular interest to freelancers in Canada...
• Apparent execution of journalist James Foley a terrible reminder of the risks freelancers take: News outlets are reporting today on the apparent death of American freelance journalist James Foley. Foley, who had been reporting on the Middle East for such outlets as Agence France-Presse and GlobalPost, was kidnapped in Syria nearly two years ago...

 

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.