Weekend reading

Posted by Martin Stabe on 13 October 2006 at 19:10
Tags: Journalism

• Pam Caulfield: Board stiff
  A Press Cadet candidate (who unfortunatly had to pull out of the competition) posted the story she wrote for the first excercise at Time Out on her blog, which is great even though she used the banned headline. Give her a job.
• Liverpool Echo: Outrage as ex-Sun boss denies lies
  The first fallout from the Kelvin MacKenzie interview. And it’s a bit odd. The paper has presented one quote about lies generally as being be about Hillsborough.
• I Want Media: Interview with Josh Quittner
  Suddenly, an incentive: It seems Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner plans to pay his journalists a bonus based on the traffic generated by their new manditory blogs: “Our bloggers will be directly remunerated on the basis of their traffic. They’ll be paid a modest CPM.”
• Financial Times: European bloggers find their voice
  This story, based on Steve Rubel’s survey on top bloggers in France, Germany and Italy, includes a useful factoid: “Edelman found that about 23 per cent of those in the UK read blogs, compared with 22 per cent in France and 27 per cent in the US. Of the four countries surveyed, Belgium lagged with only 14 per cent.” (via Mindy McAdams: Blogs Differ By Nationality)

Tags: Journalism