Copy Rights and Wrongs
Untangling the legal knots among creators, owners and users: a Q & A with Giuseppina
From Playboy to the Financial Post, print publications are continuing to move onto the iPad. But as publishing platforms expand, the industry is finding “a new way to exploit work,” says Giuseppina D’Agostino, founding director of IP at Osgoode Hall Law School. She thinks we’ll be seeing more cases like freelancer Heather Robertson’s, who sued […]
Summer 2011 teaser: Anchors
What does it mean for Canada's two most-watched nightly news programs to have new faces behind the desk?
Now that Dawna Friesen has been anchoring Global National since the fall of last year and with Lisa LaFlamme replacing Lloyd Robertson on CTV News in the next few months, Jenna Wootton asks the question : Do anchors still matter? Check out the RRJ Summer 2011 cover story in print or online in the coming […]
How To: Manage Your Finances as a Freelancer
Bruce Gillespie is an award-winning writer, whose work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Chatelaine, Financial Post Business, and Canadian Geographic. Now a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Brantford campus, Gillespie previously freelanced full-time for eight years and says one of the trickiest parts about it is learning how to manage your finances. Switch it up: Don’t […]
The Must List: David Hayes
THE “MUST” LIST An exclusive, ongoing RRJ series featuring leading Canadian journalists and their top picks for pieces every journalist “must read,” “must watch” and “must listen” to before they die.
TODAY: journalist David Hayes A freelance journalist based in Toronto, Hayes’s work has garnered him seven National Magazine Awards. He’s written for various publications, including The Walrus, The New York Times Magazine and Toronto Life. He also teaches Advanced Feature Writing at Ryerson University’s Chang School of Continuing Education. Gay Talese: “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” (Esquire, April 1966) “Gay […]
