CWA Canada releases project on media worker rights and labour reporting
Labour stories are getting lost. At least, that’s what research for the recently launched Media Works: A Labour Rights and Reporting Project has discovered.
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Writer Scott Carney launches WordRates & PitchLab Kickstarter
WordRates & PitchLab aims to improve working conditions and rates for freelance writers.
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Global safety recommendations fail to arm freelancers with necessary supports
American report does little to suggest attainable solutions to the industry’s financial woes.
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Life on the Toronto Star’s new labour beat
As the Toronto Star’s new work and wealth reporter, Sara Mojtehedzadeh is one of a dwindling number of journalists dedicated to covering labour issues full-time.
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More contract work and internships mean new journalists must learn their rights
As contract assignments and internships become more commonplace for newly minted journalists, workers more than ever need to know their rights.
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(Dis)liking digital copyright demands
Freelance journalists use digital communications to organize a collective fight against rights-grabbing contracts.
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Canadian journalism schools and the internship issue…work for pay or pay to work?
A look at the state of journalism school-sanctioned internships across Canada.
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Sun Media employees initiate drive to organize with Unifor
Pending Postmedia sale among employee concerns that spurred drive.
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Honouring Ali Mustafa, one year after his death
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.
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As paid work dwindles for student journalists, retail isn’t looking so bad
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.