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:

• 2016 Emerge Media Award winners announced [J-Source]
• Vice Canada applies to unionize with Canadian Media Guild [CBC]
• What union drive at Vice Canada means for the future of journalism [Now Toronto]
• Vice pushes back in legal fight with Canadian police [Vice]
• Deaf community calls for more news broadcasts to be accessible [J-Source]
• Waterloo PWAC panel: different ways to work as a freelance writer [PWAC]
• CMG filed at the labour board for Vice Canada union certificate [CMG]
• Big loser in Wente plagiarism? Globe's reputation [J-Source]
• CBC shortchanges local programming on road to reinvestment [CMG]
• Wentegate 2016: A round-up [J-Source]
• The do's and don'ts of gathering ambient background, or harvesting 'wild sound' [The Doc Project]

From The U.S. and beyond:

• Pitch Fix: How to sell a story that relies on a news peg [The Write Life]
• The 10 Most Annoying LinkedIn Messages Freelancers Get [The Freelancer]
• 30 Resources for Turning Your Writing Business Into a Money-Making Machine [The Write Life]
• Why other freelancers are NOT the enemy [Freelancers Union]
• 5 Tips for Freelancing Through Personal Chaos [The Freelancer]
• Mail Online rips off freelance journalist... yet again [The Guardian]
• How to Discover and Protect Your Most Creative Time for Writing [The Write Life]
• Journalists are increasingly speaking out against sexualized violence, report says [Poynter]
• Is It Morally Okay to Ghostwrite? [The Freelancer]
• 5 tips for journalists from a Pulitzer-winning researcher [Poynter]

Last week on Story Board:

• Chatelaine's call for unpaid submissions: One of our freelance union members recently brought our attention to a recent call for submissions by Chatelaine magazine. Writers whose articles are selected will not be paid for their work...
• CMG Freelance supporting striking Chronicle Herald freelancers: This is the first time that CMG Freelance has been able to offer support to members losing work because of a strike...
• Interning at Unionized Media Companies Pays—Literally: Summer internship season is about to begin. But decently paid internships, like jobs, are hard to find. Still, internships are often seen as the pathway to a job in journalism. That’s why media unions in Canada have been leading efforts to help emerging journalists find paid placements...

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