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As contract assignments and internships become more commonplace for newly minted journalists, workers more than ever need to know their rights.

Freelance journalists use digital communications to organize a collective fight against rights-grabbing contracts.

A look at the state of journalism school-sanctioned internships across Canada.

Pending Postmedia sale among employee concerns that spurred drive.

A colleague remembers Mustafa’s drive to cover issues in Egypt and Syria—and what made his status as a freelance photojournalist covering conflict zones particularly precarious.

A U.K. publisher’s scheme to have students pay for their work to be published is the latest in a tradition of media taking advantage of free labour—one that hasn’t escaped Canada.

Join us on Monday, March 2 at 6:30 p.m. for a live blog of the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s upcoming J-Talk. “Ceiling, Cracked? News Women in Charge”.

As a freelancer, why should you protect your copyright? What are moral rights, anyway? How might these issues affect you? We turned to some of the Canadian Media Guild’s resident experts to explain.

Thirteen press operators and mechanics at the Halifax Chronicle Herald were locked out Saturday, the company said in a news release.

When John Lehmann, president of the News Photographers Association of Canada, heard that a Victoria newspaper was advertising for volunteer photographers, he found the news jaw-dropping.