Archive for September, 2011
Required reading: A look at freelance writers and collective organizing in Canada
Nicole S. Cohen, a PhD candidate in York University’s Communication and Culture graduate program, is working on a large project on historical and contemporary efforts to organize freelance writers. As part of that project, she’s written a paper entitled “Negotiating Writers’ Rights: Freelance Cultural Labour and the Challenge of Organizing,” recently published in Just Labour: […]
Feeling conflicted: tech media’s messy ethics
Michael Arrington started TechCrunch in 2005, and since then he’s been the driving force of the site, successfully building its reputation as a go-to source for tech news. Last fall, AOL acquired TechCrunch, paying between $25 million and $40 million (guesstimates, since AOL never confirmed the amount publicly). Recently, Arrington went back to his venture-capitalist […]
Kai Nagata’s back, and he has a plan
When Kai Nagata quit his job at CTV back in July, reaction from his fellow journalists was mixed. Some praised his bravery in leaving what seemed to be a good and stable media job to strike out on his own, while others were put off by his manifesto, calling him naive or an attention seeker. […]
