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on 10 February 2012 at 15:21
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
The Midland News Association, publisher of Britain’s best selling regional newspaper the Express & Star, has appointed its first communications manager.
Chris Leggett, MNA’s electronic editor in charge of online content since 2006, takes up the newly-created brand and communications manager on 5 March.
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on 10 February 2012 at 10:58
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, Television
BBC bosses have been accused of ordering Newsnight to drop an investigation into claims Sir Jimmy Savile sexually abused a teenage girl at Television Centre.
A report in today’s Daily Telegraph says the woman claimed Savile molested her when she was 14 or 15 after inviting her to recordings of the BBC 1970s family show Clunk Click. The accusations are detailed in this month’s Oldie Magazine.
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on 10 February 2012 at 09:39
Tags: Journalism
The Chartered Institute of Journalists is to honour “Britain’s first investigative journalist” - William Thomas Stead - to mark the 100th anniversary of his death aboard the Titanic.
Here some more details in their release: (more…)
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on 9 February 2012 at 14:48
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Family-owned title the Newbury Weekly news has launched a new Hungerford edition.
The new edition will be available from each Thursday throughout the Hungerford, Kintbury and Lambourn area.
Posted by
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on 9 February 2012 at 14:27
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers
The Evening Standard is the latest title to launch a new app for iPhones and Android devices.
ES:GO is a free app which provides recommendations for restaurants, bars, clubs, theatre, arts and entertainment.
Full details in the press release below: (more…)
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on 9 February 2012 at 10:22
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers
Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger has taken a voluntary 10 per cent pay cut for the 2012-13 financial year which will see his pay drop from £438,900 to £395,010
According to a report on the Guardian website Rusbridger has also asked Guardian Media Group to halve the annual contribution it makes to his pension.
The report states: (more…)
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on 9 February 2012 at 09:59
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online
Guardian News & Media (GNM) has confirmed the sale of ContentNext Media, publisher of paidContent, to US business and technology media company GigaOM.
GigaOM has also acquired ContentNext Media’s other assets including mocoNews, contentSutra and paidContent:UK. (more…)
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on 8 February 2012 at 18:26
Tags: Journalism, Law, National Newspapers
Former Times legal manager Alastair Brett has reportedly said he hopes Lord Leveson will call him in to account for his actions during the Nightjack case.
Brett was subject to much implied criticism in testimony from Times editor James Harding yesterday. The inquiry heard that The Times had failed to tell Mr Justice Eady that it had illegally hacked the email of police blogger Nightjack, Richard Horton, thereby allowing it to overturn an interim privacy gagging order in 2009. (more…)
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on 8 February 2012 at 11:19
Tags: Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Roger Hawes has been appointed the news editor of the Bucks Herald, Bucks Advertiser and Thame Gazette newspapers. (more…)
Posted by
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on 8 February 2012 at 11:18
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Dorset Echo and Bournemouth Daily Echo editor Toby Granville has been named Newsquest’s Editor of the Year. (more…)
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on 8 February 2012 at 10:40
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, People, Television
The Royal Television Society has announced the shortlist for the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2011.
The awards, which celebrate the “creative and excellent journalism in UK news and current affairs”, will be hosted by ITV newsreader Mark Austin and take place on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at the London Hilton, Park Lane.
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on 7 February 2012 at 11:37
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
The Surrey Comet’s “Most Wanted” campaign has been praised by police after information from readers helped police make eight arrests.
The campaign was launched in October 2011 in conjunction with Kingston Police, and after the first edition two people came forward, followed by another three after the second round of appeals.
After last month’s appeal a further three people came forward including someone wanted on suspicion of defrauding a pensioner for roofing works.
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on 6 February 2012 at 18:44
Tags: National Newspapers, Newspapers
The Financial Times raised a record £3.3m for the international development charity Sightsavers with its Seasonal Appeal.
The money, which will help tackle avoidable blindness in developing nations, comprised: £2.5m worth of donations with match finding; a photography auction and auction of dinners with FT writers (£165,408) and Standard Chartered staff donating their last hour’s pay of 2011 (£406,599). (more…)
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on 6 February 2012 at 12:22
Tags: Journalism
Tributes have been paid to Beirut-based journalist Tewfik Mishlawi who has died aged 76.
The Guardian obituary notes that Tewfik was: “a father-figure and guru to at least three generations of journalists who went to the Middle East. They live in eternal gratitude to him and his daily digest of translation from the local and regional Arabic press and his analytical explorations of what was going on. (more…)
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on 6 February 2012 at 12:05
Tags: Journalism
A guide for journalists’ to the big diary stories of the week ahead - provided by Foresight News.
It’s a big year for patriots, with the Olympics coming to the capital in the summer and a year’s worth of celebrations planned for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, which falls on Monday. As well as the obligatory gun salutes today, there are royal tours around the Commonwealth and an official Jubilee weekend in June which includes an extra bank holiday. Rule Britannia! (more…)
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on 1 February 2012 at 14:25
Tags: Journalism
The BBC has launched a redesign of its BBC Sport website which aims to put live coverage at the “heart of its output”.
This is the first major redesign in almost a decade and is aimed at reflecting the “changing needs of sports fans as more and more licence-fee payers go online to get up-to-the minute updates on the biggest sporting events”.
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on 1 February 2012 at 14:25
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Johnston Press plans to stop printing the Yorkshire Post in Leeds for the first time in its 258-year history with the loss of 25 jobs.
The BBC reports that that printing of the Yorkshire Post and its sister-title the Evening Post will be transferred to Dinnington, near Sheffield, and Sunderland.
The company’s chief operating officer Danny Cammiade said the new arrangement would “follow the pattern across the newspaper industry of printing being centralised into fewer but bigger and more modern plants”.
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on 1 February 2012 at 14:17
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online
The Sun and Mail Online both published articles today attacking the internet “ghouls” that spread “twisted rumours” about Gary Speed after his death last year- in contrast to the “sympathetic” coverage of the mainstream media.
It comes after Gary Speed’s brother-in-law Anthony Haylock backed an attack on the “totally unfounded rumours that swept across the internet” after Speed’s death, when he retweeted the following message from ex-Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan yesterday: (more…)
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on 1 February 2012 at 09:20
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has mocked a story that appeared in yesterday’s Financial Times reporting that plans for a Sunday edition of The Sun had been put on hold. (more…)
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on 31 January 2012 at 10:14
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online
Plans for a Sunday edition of The Sun have been put on hold following the arrest of four senior journalists over the weekend, according to the Financial Times (behind paywall).
A report this morning said the plans are known as “Project X” – but claimed sources had “downplayed” reports that a launch date of 29 April “had been set in stone”.
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