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The fight for freelancer rights

Tue, 16 Apr 2013

04 April 16 2013 Karizza Sanchez On March 4, 2013, veteran freelancer Jay Teitel wrote an open letter to Transcontinental Media , the publishing giant whose titles include Elle Canada , Canadian Living , and Style at Home . He was firm, and maybe even frustrated. But he was honest

Where is travel journalism heading?

Thu, 11 Apr 2013

04 April 11 2013 Nicole Clark As freelance budgets for print media publications shrink, the future of travel journalism in Canada may lie in custom publishing, digital media, and the tapping of the American market. “Those days when a magazine could pay their way, that’s generally not happ

Rogers M-School internship misses the mark

Wed, 10 Apr 2013

Glossing over writers' rights

Wed, 10 Apr 2013

04 April 11 2013 Erica Scime One month after Transcontinental Media released the appallingly unfair changes to its writers' contract , it has announced the launch of Véro , a French magazine for women in Quebec–a move that is weighted with contradiction for its writers. Given its recent wh

How to train your journalists

Wed, 03 Apr 2013

The Fellowship in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto is a journalism program unlike any other.

Voices in the Void

Wed, 03 Apr 2013

Hispanic media in Canada are underfunded, underresourced, and underrepresented. But against all odds, here are five upstarts valiantly attempting to bring to Canada's Spanish-language population what they say they want: more local programming.

For Punjabi journalist Jagdish Grewal, reporting can be a matter of life or death

Tue, 02 Apr 2013

“The moment they put the gun on my head, I said goodbye to this world. In my mind I said goodbye to my family. And said this is it. Any moment there is going to be a bang and I’m done.”

Eat, drink, and be wary

Tue, 02 Apr 2013

Food critics are struggling to protect their anonymity from an onslaught of cunning restaurateurs trying to unmask and tempt them.

Tart and soul

Mon, 01 Apr 2013

How the left-leaning, scotch-drinking, bullshit-detecting, high-school-dropping, joke-Googling, single-mom-ing, storytelling, serial tweeting, cheese-puff-cooking Tabatha Southey became one of our leading political humourists.

Willfully blind

Mon, 01 Apr 2013

A closer look at the Margaret Wente plagiarism scandal and what it says about The Globe and Mail's institutional arrogance.