My wrap-up of last month’s #VolumeSymposium about how to make Australia even more of a reading nation is now up on the @AustraliaReads website (https://australiareads.org.au/news/volume-wrap-up/).

#Reading #AustraliaReads #ArtsLeadership #RethinkingArtsLeadership #PayTheWriters #WeNeedDiverseBooks

VOLUME Wrap-up: Key insights for building a reading nation | Australia Reads

Key insights from VOLUME – the national reading symposium by Australia Reads

Australia Reads
Great news about the tentative agreement to settle the writers strike! #wga #paythewriters

paucity
noun
1. Smallness of number; fewness.
2. Scarcity; dearth.
3. Smallness of quantity; scantiness.

The number of movies or TV shows I have *any* interest in watching on the streaming services to which we currently subscribe.

#PayTheWriters

Kate Larsen 📚 on TikTok

Decided I liked my TT captions typo better that way. // #ShowMeTheMoney #PayTheWriters #RethinkingArtLeadership #ArtsLeadership

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We just got to see the #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds x #LowerDecks crossover episode "Those Old Scientists" and it was clever, heartfelt, and HILARIOUS.

This is why #Paramount and all the other studios need to #PayTheWriters, #PayTheActors, and #PayTheAnimators.

#WGAStrong #SagAftraStrong #PerArduaAdAftra

Hollywood actors announce strike in first joint action with writers in over 60 years

Simultaneous strikes by WGA and Sag-Aftra are expected to halt the majority of Hollywood’s film and TV production

The Guardian

Okay, that will do it for the ESPYS.

Seriously, pay the fucking writers. The show was bland this year.

(West Coast viewers, show starts now)

#ESPYS #AwardShow #Boring #PayTheWriters

New post with some recent publications/projects and my annual-ish audit of freelancing income, rates of pay, super etc. Radical transparency is part of making change! #PayTheWriters

https://jennifermills.net.au/2023/06/30/art-life-balance/

Art/life balance – jennifermills.net.au

The Liberals say the law is meant to end tech titans’ dominance of the digital advertising market, stating that in 2020, both platforms took in more than 80 per cent of Canadian online advertising revenues as the country’s journalism industry faced hundreds of closures.

#Canada #Media #Journalism #PayTheWriters #C18 #Google #Meta

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2023/06/29/google-to-block-access-to-canadian-news-for-anyone-living-in-canada.html

Google to block access to Canadian news for anyone living in Canada

The move comes on the heels of a similar announcement by Meta and follows days of negotiations with the Liberal government over its online news bill.

Toronto Star