Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Mar 1-7

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:

• New Trail named magazine of the year at Alberta Magazine Awards [Canadian Magazines]
• Copyright disagreement between educational sector and writers ongoing [TWUC]
• Canadian Journalism Fellowships [J-Source]
• The Chronicle Herald strikers were joined by Nova Scotia labour unions for a rally this week [CBC]
• Are Canada's Newspapers Too White? Most Refused to Say [Canadaland]
• New blow to Canadian educational writers incomes [ALCS]
• CBC/Radio-Canada funding to increase in upcoming budget: heritage minister [CBC]
• Opinion: Journalism is becoming 'Uber-ized' [J-Source]
• Thoughts on machine transcription [Luigi Benetton]

From The U.S. and beyond:

• NYC may pass "Freelance Isn't Free Act" to help screwed-over freelancers [Gothamist]
• Check out these audio recording apps and find the best one for your reporting [Journalism.co.uk]
• What Gawker's New Contract Means For The Freelance Workforce [Fast Company]
• My Yearlong Quest to Get Paid [The Freelancer]
• Making Time for Writing? 7 Simple but Powerful Productivity Tips [The Write Life]
• Gawker employees bargain first union contract at a digital media company [The Guardian]

Last week on Story Board:

• Pay Your Interns! film screening and discussion in Toronto on March 12th: Do you think interns ought to be paid for their work? So do we! Come and join us for a screening of the film Pay Your Interns! on March 12 in Toronto...

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.