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:

• No one else can write your story [Canada Writes] (via @eac_acr)
• What’s Another Word For ‘Freeloader’? [Swallow Daily] (via @dongenova)
• Write up to women, not down: response to a study that shows women don't care about 'current affairs' [J-Source]
• Closure of community newspapers represents a darker and more serious trend [J-Source]
• Training or work? Unpaid interns want companies to pay up [Toronto Star]
• Remembering Linda Lewis [J-Source]
• CBC & Radio-Canada won't air TV ad criticizing federal influence on public broadcaster [J-Source]
• Magazine editor Linda Lewis shared life with readers [Toronto Star]

 

From the U.S. and beyond:

• The freelancer's guide to cash flow management [Creative Bloq] (via @freelance_hacks)
• 15+ Reasons Why You May Be Better Off as Part-Time Freelancer [Freelance Folder] (via @freelance_hacks)
• Anakana Schofield: publicising a novel - the problems [The Guardian] (via @tanyakyi)
• 5 Tips for Writing for Kids and Teens [49th Shelf] (via @twuc)
• Media people: Newspapers could not have avoided getting pulverized by Internet [Poynter]
• 5 Tips for Meeting with and Impressing Editors [Freelance Strategist] (via @contently)
• Longform Journalism is Alive and Well, Say Co-Founders of Byliner, Atavist [Mediabistro]
• A freelancer’s greatest attribute and how to leverage it [GDB] (via @freelance_hacks)
• Nate Silver and the NYT [GigaOM]
• Of Course I’d Love To Work For Free [Nathaniel Tapley] (via @LuigiBenetton)
• Budgeting for freelancers [Givemebackmyfivebucks] (via @freelance_hacks)
• How to Apply the 80/20 Principle to Your Freelance Business [Bidsketch] (via @freelance_hacks)

 

From Story Board last week:

• Pressfolios: a new option for freelance portfolios: The portfolio site for journalists just launched in public beta and it promises a hassle-free way of updating your portfolio and archiving articles that have been taken offline...
• Tips on writing long-form journalism from AAN: It’s not often you get to sit in a room with three people who have, respectively, lived with and written about crack gangs in Los Angeles, exposed the financial crimes of some of the most high profile people in America and played a round of golf with former President Bill Clinton....

 

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.