Writers' rights: freelance journalism in a digital age
(Book)
"As media industries undergo rapid change, conditions of media work are shifting. The number of journalists working as freelancers globally has exploded. While popular commentary positions freelancers as ideal workers for an information age--adaptable, multiskilled, and entrepreneurial--Nicole S. Cohen argues that freelance media work is becoming 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. Like growing numbers of workers in the media, cultural, and entertainment sectors, freelance journalists are experiencing deepening precarity. The book provides context to the freelance struggles bubbling up as we barrel toward journalism's digital future, and identifies points of contention and movements toward change. Through interviews and a survey of freelancers, Cohen highlights the paradoxes of freelancing, which can be simultaneously precarious and satisfying, risky and rewarding. The book 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. Cohen examines pressing issues of low pay, restrictive contracts, and unpaid work, and presents four new case studies of freelancers' efforts to collectively transform their conditions. This groundbreaking work offers a timely intervention into current debates about the future of journalism, organizing workers in precarious employment, and the transformation of media work in a digital age, making clear what's at stake for journalism's democratic role when the costs and risks of its production are offloaded onto individuals."--
Cohen, N. S. (2016). Writers' rights: freelance journalism in a digital age. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago, McGill-Queen's University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cohen, Nicole S.. 2016. Writers' Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago, McGill-Queen's University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cohen, Nicole S., Writers' Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cohen, Nicole S.. Writers' Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
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505 | 0 | 0 | |g Introduction:|t Freedom's double edge : freelance journalism and precarity --|t A site of struggle : theorizing freelance media work --|t A labour history of freelance journalism --|t Freelancers' dues : wages, contracts, copyright --|t Hustle, write, code : the microautonomy of freelance work --|t Work in the content factory : doing digital journalism --|t Unite the rrite : freelancers and collective organization --|t Packs of lone wolves : experiments in organizing freelancers --|g Conclusion:|t Journalism's precarity penalty. |
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