Crea T.O. Speaker Series: Nicole Cohen, 'Writers' Rights'

Ryerson University - Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
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Join Nicole Cohen for a presentation of her book Writers' Rights: Freelance Journalism. The presentation is part of the Crea T.O. Speaker Series, sponsored and organized by the Ryerson School of Creative Industries and The Global Communication Governance Lab. The event will be held in Room 1067, with a Q&A to follow.

Writers' Rights provides context for freelancers’ struggles and identifies the points of contention between journalists and big business. Through interviews and a survey of freelancers, Cohen highlights the paradoxes of freelancing, which can be simultaneously precarious and satisfying, risky and rewarding. She documents the transformation of freelancing from a way for journalists to resist salaried labour in pursuit of autonomy into a strategy for media firms to intensify exploitation of freelance writers’ labour power, and presents case studies of freelancers’ efforts to collectively transform their conditions.

Nicole S. Cohen is assistant professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.