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Jan
28
Toronto Book Launch: Writers' Rights
Saturday, January 28th, 20171-3 p.m.
Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3C6
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Nicole Cohen will launch her book, Writers’ Rights, in an event sponsored by the Canadian Media Guild in Toronto on January 28th, 1-3 pm at Metro Hall. Nicole will introduce the themes and arguments in the book and then there will be a panel of speakers to address solutions and challenges for addressing precarious freelance work.
Writers' Rights
Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age
By Nicole S. Cohen
A timely study of freelance journalists’ working conditions and what is at stake for the future of journalism in precarious times.
As media industries undergo rapid change, the conditions of media work are shifting just as quickly, with an explosion in the number of journalists working as freelancers. Although commentary frequently lauds freelancers as ideal workers for the information age - adaptable, multi-skilled, and entrepreneurial - Nicole Cohen argues that freelance media work is increasingly precarious, marked by declining incomes, loss of control over one’s work, intense workloads, long hours, and limited access to labour and social protections. Read more >
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