Off The Wire: News for the Canadian media freelancer Oct 20-26

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:

• Postmedia cancels evening tablet editions [J-Source]
• Postmedia targets cost-cutting as it seeks new revenue streams [Globe and Mail]
• New research: print magazine readers outnumber digital 2 to 1 [Magazines Canada]
• Freed Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy sets sights on change [J-Source]

From The U.S. and beyond:

• As reporter networks fragment, startup seeks to fill gap [Poynter]
• Why I Hired an Editor to Help Me Polish My Personal Essay [The Write Life]
• Working From Home: Awesome or Awful? [The Atlantic]
• Can WordRates Help You Earn More Money as a Freelance Journalist? [The Write Life]
• Why HuffPo and other 'new' media journalists are choosing unions [The Conversation]
• 25 Things You Should Probably Outsource [The Freelancer]
• Story dust: Lessons learned on feature writing from Lane DeGregory [Poynter]
• Vice blacks out homepages and social media to call for the release of journalist Mohammed Rasool [Nieman Lab]
• How to Use the Pomodoro Technique as a Freelance Writer [The Write Life]
• Why some promising freelance platforms fail [IJNet]

Last week on Story Board:

• Ali Mustafa Memorial Award for freelance photojournalists application deadline Nov. 1: A new award honouring a freelance photojournalist killed in Syria is now accepting applications. The deadline to apply for the first annual Ali Mustafa Memorial Award for People’s Journalism is Sunday, November 1st...
• Debate on unpaid internships still evolving: The past few years have seen a crackdown on corporations and organizations that are still hiring unpaid interns. Despite the pushback, there is still a demand for internships, most unpaid...
• Keeping in touch with clients: The client put my business card on his desk. He had held onto it since 2003, after we had worked together on a safety newsletter. That’s right, since 2003. I was stunned...

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