Survey shows five per cent of Britons trust tabloid journalists post hacking scandal

Posted by Farida Zeynalova on 22 September 2011 at 10:26
Tags: Journalism

Trust in newspaper journalists has dropped over the last year in the wake of the hacking scandal according to a survey carried out by YouGov for the University of Nottingham.

A YouGov survey carried out in November 2010 found that 54 per cent of the 2012 Britons questioned said they trusted broadsheet journalists and seven per cent said they trusted tabloid journalists.

According to the University of Nottingham, which asked YouGov to repeat the survey in July this year - the trust figure for broadsheets had dropped to 41 per cent and to 5 per cent for tabloids. (more…)

ITV names winner of ‘Breaking Into News’ competition

Posted by Farida Zeynalova on 20 September 2011 at 10:26
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism

Twenty-year-old Sophia Kichou has won the Breaking Into News competition run by ITV News and the Media Trust.

The judging panel, which included Mark Austin, chose Kichou for her report on homelessness in London.

All six finalists receieved mentoring and support from broadcast journalists in the ITV newsroom, who helped with writing, presenting and production skills. (more…)

FT: ‘Michael Gove used private emails which conceal sensitive information’

Posted by Farida Zeynalova on 20 September 2011 at 09:43
Tags: Freedom of Information, Journalism, Law, National Newspapers, Newspapers

The Information Commissioner has “raised concerns” about Education Secretary Michael Gove and a number of his closest advisers over their compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, following claims they used their personal emails to conduct government business.

The Financial Times (behind paywall) said it had forwarded evidence to the Information Commissioner’s Offices (ICO) showing “systematic use of private emails, which conceal sensitive information from the education department’s own civil servants and the public”. (more…)

Loughborough Echo claims success in three-year-campaign to brighten up town

Posted by Farida Zeynalova on 19 September 2011 at 15:30
Tags: Journalism

The Loughborough Echo has claimed success in a three-year campaign to brighten up the town after it won an East Midlands in Bloom gold medal.

The campaign was launched in response to a series of complaints about the state of the town’s verges and flowerbeds made by Echo readers.

Echo editor Andy Rush said: “We’d been carrying lots of complaint stories and it would have been the easiest thing in the world to splash a banner headline and pose the question to the authorities: ‘What are you going to do about it?’ But we decided to do something more positive…

“We got a Bloom Board together made up of all the key players in the town and haven’t looked back since.”

Rush said that the campaign was an example of the Big Society “before it was even heard of”.