[Wamvan] Canadian Women's Issues + news on blogging for WIMN on racism in the media

[Joanna Chiu]

Hi Frieda and all,

Thanks for sending the article. Kalamity and Meenakshi, two WAM Vancouver
organizers, presented workshops at last month's "The F Word Conference" that
raised questions about the usefulness of feminism in academia. If you're
interested in covering this topic on your radio show, they're good contacts.


I love Google Alerts. It's a great tool for journalists to think of article
ideas on certain topics. It's easy to set up here:
http://www.google.com/alerts

As for Helium, I looked into it when I was younger, and it's a site where
writers can generate content on whatever they'd like (as opposed to content
farms like Demand Media where writers have to choose from a SEO-driven list
of "how to" articles). It is very difficult for writers to make money on
Helium, but if their articles become very popular, they get paid a bit.

Speaking of writing for free, I'm going to start blogging for WIMN (Women in
Media and News <http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/>), an
organization that has quite similar goals as WAM, about representation or
race/racism and women of colour in the media.

Please keep sending out interesting links to the wamvan listserv! It's been
very helpful in helping me generate article ideas. I just wish I had better
time management and productivity to keep up with all my ideas!

Thanks everyone,

Joanna





On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Frieda Werden <frieda.werden at gmail.com>wrote:

> I maintain a Google alert for Canadian Women's Issues.  Sometimes it turns
> up totally irrelevant stuff, but sometimes I hit paydirt for leads for
> stories or just interesting news I would never have seen.  Today I got a
> link to a story on Helium about "Working class feminism in Canada." It's not
> very long or deep, but it's intriguing.
> http://www.helium.com/items/2163366-working-class-feminism-in-canada
>
> I don't know much about Helium.com - do any of you?
>
> --
> Frieda Werden, Series Producer
> WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org
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>
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> Frieda Werden, Series Producer
> WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org
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