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: What happened inside Parliament Hill during the shooting: Q&A with Justin Ling [J-Source] An interview with Jesse Brown, the crowdfunded…
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: CBC fires Jian Ghomeshi over sex allegations [Toronto Star] Postmedia losses deepen as print, digital ad sales drop [Globe and Mail] (via…
A group of researchers is seeking freelancers in Southern Ontario to participate in a study on insecure employment.The study is part of a multi-year project exploring poverty and precarious employment in the area (PEPSO). The organizations leading the project include the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton and the United…
News of the death of Ottawa freelance writer and journalism professor Mark Anderson was greeted with an outpouring of sadness and dismay late last week. J-Source reported yesterday that Anderson died of complications related to throat cancer on October 16th at the age of 51.Response on social media came, in large part, from Anderson's former and…
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: When Iggy Pop can't live off his art, what chance do the rest have? [Globe and Mail] How media unions are making strides to improve working…
Legal cases that have arisen over improper use of photos sourced from social media over the past few years have demonstrated a growing need for a better system for crowdsourcing citizen journalism.Enter platforms like NewZulu -- a crowdsourcing platform that recruits users to upload their photos of news events for potential sale to news outlets.…
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: Jesse Brown dishes on Canadaland and why we need more media criticism [J-Source] What the Postmedia-Sun deal will mean for the future of…
by Rachel SandersJesse Brown saw an empty space on the Canadian media landscape. So he filled that niche with Canadaland, a weekly media criticism podcast that started a year ago this week.Over the past year, Canadaland has built up an audience of over 10,000 listeners. That's a number that has been steadily climbing. But a year in, Brown has…
The Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellowship is currently accepting requests for applications for the 2015-16 academic year. The fellowship offers a Canadian journalist the opportunity to take a mid-career sabbatical to study at Harvard University. Freelancers are welcome to apply. Applications are open to print journalists,…
