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on 21 May 2012 at 08:34
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers
Boris Johnson’s former media chief Guto Harri has joined News International as head of communications.
In an interview with The Guardian, the former BBC chief political correspondent said he would aim to “combat some of the hysteria that is rife in British public life”.
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on 21 May 2012 at 07:03
Tags: Journalism
After spending two days at Camp David saving the world, the Avengers reassembled in Chicago on Sunday for the NATO Summit, where talks continue (handily for this blog) on Monday. Presidents Obama and Karzai are set to sign the agreement which will set out the terms of the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014, while Asif Ali Zardari is expected to take part in discussions on the reopening of ground supply routes in Pakistan. Meanwhile the mystery of how our own Dr Bruce Banner stays calm has been solved: hours and hours of Fruit Ninja.
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on 17 May 2012 at 14:13
Tags: Journalism
The Journalism Foundation is holding a gala dinner to raise funds for its work around the world.
The event, which is called “A Priceless Evening”, takes place next Tuesday and will be hosted by broadcaster Richard Bacon.
It will raise funds for projects including the establishment of a new college of journalism in Tunisia, and a programme to train young journalists in South Sudan.
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on 17 May 2012 at 14:12
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, National Newspapers, Newspapers, People
Hollywood star Tom Cruise has suggested he may be a victim of phone-hacking at the News of the World.
The Daily Telegraph today reports on an interview with Cruise that appeared in Playboy magazine:
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on 17 May 2012 at 14:11
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers, People
The chair of News Corp’s Management and Standards Committee, Lord Grabiner QC, is on a £3,000 hourly rate – helping to push the total cost of the company’s phone-hacking investigation to more £53m.
The Lawyer reports that accounts filed by News International show the £53.2m running costs of the MSC were built up “primarily by legal and professional fees”.
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on 16 May 2012 at 09:04
Tags: Journalism, Journalism education, Student Journalism, awards
The NCTJ’s annual Awards for Excellence in Journalism are open for entries and this year include a new award celebrating student publications.
The awards recognise and reward the best journalism students completing NCTJ-accredited courses and journalists/photographers with less than two years’ experience on the job.
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on 14 May 2012 at 10:27
Tags: Journalism, Journalism Jobs, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Five journalism jobs are under threat at Johnston Press subsidiary Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group.
Two sports journalists, a photographer, a deputy news editor and a digital assistant could loses their jobs following a shake-up affecting the Wakefield Express, Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express and Pontefract and Castleford Express.
A letter sent to staff last week said the following changes were proposed:
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on 14 May 2012 at 10:18
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Photography
The ex-chief photographer at Mirror Group Newspapers, Mike Maloney has joined the University of Lincoln after accepting a visiting professorship.
Maloney is said to be one of the most decorated press photographers in the UK, having won 107 major photographic honours, including Press Photographer of the Year three times, during his 30-year career.
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on 14 May 2012 at 08:35
Tags: Journalism
A guide to the big diary news stories of the week ahead provided by Foresight News.
The Leveson truth-juggernaut rolls on this Monday with former Labour Director of Communications Alastair Campbell hauled before Brian’s Inquiry to answer questions on the relationship between the press and politicians. Campbell, whose time as Tony Blair’s chief spinner included such highlights as that dodgy dossier, has, like Andy Coulson last week, spent time on both sides of the media-politico fence, having been poached by the party from the fondly-remembered Today newspaper.
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on 11 May 2012 at 14:01
Tags: Journalism
This piece appeared in Press Gazette magazine two years ago. We republish it here after the issue of a paediatrician wrongly being attacked in the wake of a 2000 News of the World campaign reared its head again at the Leveson Inquiry. As this piece reveals, a fairly minor graffiti incident became the source of a pervasive urban myth.
Ten years on it is time the strange tale of the paediatrician confused with a paedophile was finally put to bed, says Brendan O’Neill, who reported on the orginal story for the BBC
Ten years ago this month, persons unknown – probably teenage scallies, according to local police – daubed the word ‘Paedo’ on the home of a paediatrician in Gwent in south Wales. They could never have known that their daft antics would become one of the most hotly discussed, frequently revisited, distorted and mythologised crimes of modern times.
It was 28 August in the year 2000. Yvette Cloete, a 30-year-old South African working as a trainee paediatrician in Gwent, returned home to find the word ‘Paedo’ painted on her front door.
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on 10 May 2012 at 10:06
Tags: National Newspapers, Newspapers
The editor of The Independent on Sunday, John Mullin, has been summoned to appear at the Leveson Inquiry today over a story that apparently contained details from Andy Coulson’s witness statement.
Lord Justice Leveson said he had used Section 21 of the Inquiries Act to summon Mullin, the first time this has happened to a national newspaper editor at the inquiry.
Leveson had previously stated on several occasions that no witness statements should be made public until they had been given in evidence at the inquiry.
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on 9 May 2012 at 13:24
Tags: Journalism, Law
Police investigating the naming of the rape victim of Sheffield United and Wales striker Ched Evans on Twitter have arrested fourmore men.
Seventeen arrests have now been made in total, according to North Wales Police.
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on 8 May 2012 at 10:39
Tags: Journalism
On Tuesday disgraced private investigator Glenn ‘Trigger’ Mulcaire continues to fight an order compelling him to reveal the names of News International bosses who ordered the wonder-goal scorer to hack the phones of numerous victims of crime, as well as the criminals themselves, slebs, PR executives and philandering Labour politicians. The Supreme Court hearing will be the former AFC Wimbledon star’s third attempt to overturn the order, before, if defeated once more, he’ll no doubt turn to the News of the World’s erstwhile friend – the European Court of Human Rights.
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on 4 May 2012 at 09:25
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers
The Government has applied to be given “core participant status” at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards,
In a statement on its website, the inquiry said it will sit at 2pm today to hear the government’s application, which if successful would see it given the right to see inquiry documents and witness statements in advance.
The move comes ahead of evidence next week from former News International executives Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, which could potentially embarrass Prime Minister David Cameron.
Core participant status would also give the Government the right to put questions to other witnesses through its lawyers.
Leading media lawyer Chris Hutchings, a partner at Hamlins, said this was a “controversial move by the Government, coming late in the day”, adding: “This is an attempt to protect the Government at a time when the actions of key ministers such as Jeremy Hunt are scrutinised by the Inquiry The basis on which they are making the application is unclear.”
Cameron set up the Leveson Inquiry last July in response to revelations that the now-defunct News of the World hacked murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone after she disappeared in 2002.
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on 4 May 2012 at 09:07
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Photography
The 19 international editors of Vogue magazine have signed a pact committing them to promoting a “healthy body image” in the magazine.
The Health Initiative is designed to “encourage a healthier approach to body image within the industry” and was unveiled today in the June issue of Vogue.
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on 4 May 2012 at 07:35
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers, People, awards
The International Women’s Media Foundation has announced the Winners of its 2012 Courage in Journalism Awards.
The annual awards recognise “women journalists who have shown extraordinary strength of character and integrity while reporting the news under dangerous or difficult circumstances”.
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on 3 May 2012 at 12:53
Tags: B2B Magazines, Journalism, Magazines
Top Right Group, the company formerly known as Emap, has sold its automotive information business CAP for more than £150m.
According to The Guardian – whose parent company Guardian Media Group owns 30 per cent of Top Right – the business was sold to the Montagu Private Equity, which also has investments including retailer Maplin Electronics and hair straightener firm GHD.
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on 3 May 2012 at 10:29
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, People
The Financial Times has poached Wall Street Journal’s social media editor Emily Steel.
She joins the FT as US media and marketing correspondent, covering content and distribution companies, digital media innovators and the wider marketing industry.
Posted by
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on 24 April 2012 at 13:22
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Ken Livingstone walked out of an interview with the Croydon Advertiser after the newspaper exposed the mayoral candidate’s lack of local knowledge.
While Livingstone was comfortable taking questions on transport and crime, he was less comfortable when asked about the name of the local theatre and football ground – and eventually walked out on interviewer David Churchill when asked about the population of Croydon.
Posted by
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on 23 April 2012 at 13:39
Tags: Journalism
Monday is going to have a certain Christmas Eve feel to it this week, but out in the real world (well, Luxembourg), the beat goes on. The EU Foreign Affairs Council meets with the reported intention of relaxing decades-old sanctions against Burma following successful by-elections on April 1 which saw National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi elected to Parliament, where she takes up her seat today (unless the NLD goes ahead with its threatened boycott). The Council is also likely to discuss the ever-more fragile ceasefire in Syria and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s assertion last week that the Syrian Government had failed to adhere to the truce.
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