“There are days when I literally run out of bed in the morning due to the pressure of making payroll,” says Rachel Pulfer. Pulfer is the executive director for Journalists for Human Rights, Canada’s largest non-profit media development organization. Seventy percent of her time as executive director is spent fundraising. “In the first year,… Continue reading Fighting for Funds
“There are days when I literally run out of bed in the morning due to the pressure of making payroll,” says Rachel Pulfer. Pulfer is the executive director for Journalists for Human Rights, Canada’s largest non-profit media development organization. Seventy percent of her time as executive director is spent fundraising. “In the first year,… Continue reading Fighting for funds
Even though he had already made the decision to flee Mexico many months before, Luis Horacio Nájera didn’t realize what he was leaving behind until the day he fled to live in exile in Canada. As his family was getting in the car, their lives packed into bags in the trunk, Nájera turned back to… Continue reading Journalist in exile
Even though he had already made the decision to flee Mexico many months before, Luis Horacio Nájera didn’t realize what he was leaving behind until the day he fled to live in exile in Canada. As his family was getting in the car, their lives packed into bags in the trunk, Nájera turned back… Continue reading Journalist in exile
It’s well known that many news organizations rely on advertisers to pay the bills. But at BestStory.ca, a fairly new website delivering long-form journalism, founder Warren Perley has adopted an ad-free model in an attempt to ensure unbiased reporting. “Ad-free, to me, is the only way to guard our editorial and keep it… Continue reading No Advertisers Allowed: BestStory.ca and the challenge of ad-free content
