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Owen Amos
on 3 April 2009 at 09:40
Tags: Journalism
Martin Samuel, the Daily Mail sports writer and columnist, has today criticised “half-baked” media courses, urging aspiring journalists to pursue academic subjects instead.
In a piece on vocational courses, Samuel – who, as well as being chief sports writer, writes one news opinion piece per week – said “traditional subjects” are more useful.
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Owen Amos
on 2 April 2009 at 12:36
Tags: Journalism
An assistant editor at Telegraph Media Group has said local papers are “mostly appalling” and face a “mining-style” death.
He added papers were producing “dross”, and said management was to blame.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 2 April 2009 at 12:15
Tags: Journalism
The journalism course at Glyndwr University in Wrexham has been accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 2 April 2009 at 11:41
Tags: Journalism
Psychologies magazine has hired Mariella Frostrup and David Baddiel as columists.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 1 April 2009 at 12:56
Tags: Journalism
The London Evening Standard’s chief reporter, Robert Mendick, has become senior reporter at The Sunday Telegraph.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 27 March 2009 at 16:45
Tags: Journalism
Richard Spencer has been appointed Dubai correspondent for the Telegraph Media Group.
Spencer has been The Daily Telegraph’s Beijing correspondent for the past six years.
In his new role, Richard will have responsibility for the whole Gulf region.
Group Foreign Editor for TMG, Adrian Michaels, said: “Richard has been an outstanding Beijing correspondent. I am delighted to appoint him to this new role as the Telegraph continues to expand its international network and global reach.”
The Telegraph could not confirm where Spencer will be based in his new role.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 27 March 2009 at 11:15
Tags: Journalism
The New York Times is making all its staff take two weeks’ unpaid leave, and cutting 100 jobs in the commercial sector.
The paper is reducing pay across the board by five per cent, and, in return, offering staff an extra ten days’ holiday.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 27 March 2009 at 08:48
Tags: Journalism
Elton John’s legal action against The Guardian’s spoof diary of his life has ended.
John claimed Marina Hyde’s “A peek at the diary of” feature was “gratuitously offensive, nasty and snide”.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 26 March 2009 at 09:45
Tags: Journalism
Black Rod has been made the Press Complaints Commission’s charter commissioner.
Lt Gen Sir Michael Willcocks, who currently serves in the ceremonial role at parliament, will take over from Sir Brian Cubbon in May.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 25 March 2009 at 12:48
Tags: Journalism
The Science Media Centre has complained to the Daily Express over a story warning of the dangers of low energy lightbulbs.
The SMC describes itself as an “independent organisation set up to promote accurate reporting of scientific issues in the media”.
On Saturday 14 March, the Express splash was headlined: “Dangers of Low Energy Lightbulbs: They contain poisonous mercury powder”.
The article quoted scientists who spoke at an SMC briefing.
But the story caused SMC director Fiona Fox to complain via email to the story’s author, Penny Stretton.
The email, leaked to Media Guardian, said: “Over six years we have run hundreds of these trademark ‘background briefings’ on some of the most controversial issues of the day and … we rarely encounter mis-reporting.”
Fox added the story contained eight factual errors.
But Daily Express news editor, Greg Swift, described the story as “a factual and accurate account of the SMC briefing”.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 25 March 2009 at 12:20
Tags: Journalism
Thelondonpaper is to unveil its new-look website on April 1.
The site includes an enhanced going out guide with 35,000 entries, up from 7,000.
Saalim Chowdhury, head of digital products at thelondonpaper, said readers will be able to amend and add comments to the guide.
Other changes include a link-up with Facebook, which will allow users’ comments on the website to be carried on the social network.
Chowdhury added that the overhaul is targeted at 18 to 35-year-olds.
The new site will also allow advertisements to “wrap round” a page’s content.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 25 March 2009 at 10:11
Tags: Journalism
Five journalists who were not paid by their newspaper for 12 weeks have won £19,000 at a tribunal.
The five employees of The Darrener, based in Darwen, Lancashire, were not paid between April and June last year.
The paper has not been published since mid-July, though is still listed by Companies House as actively trading.
According to the Lancashire Telegraph, Judge Peter Russell awarded former editor Peter Holland £6,837.54, chief reporter Miranda Taylor £4,750, graphic designer Martyn Halliwell £3,266, reporter Simone Yates £2,100 and layout assistant Lisa Geogarty £2,484.50.
The staff took the action against the newspaper’s former owner, Ted Ward.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 25 March 2009 at 09:48
Tags: Journalism
Gannett, Newsquest’s parent group, is forcing its employees in the US to take a second week’s unpaid leave.
Staff in the US have been already been told to take one week’s “furlough” before the end of March, and have now been asked to take another before the end of June.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 24 March 2009 at 10:45
Tags: Journalism
Associated Newspapers, the group that runs the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, has announced a pay freeze for all its staff.
The year-long freeze is back-dated to 1 March.
In a further cost-cutting move, sub-editors at the Daily Mail will now work nine-day fortnights, rather than four-day weeks.
Northcliffe, the regional arm of Associated’s parent company Daily Mail and General Trust, yesterday announced it plans to cut 1,000 jobs this year.
Advertising revenues at Northcliffe were down 37 per cent year on year in the first three months of 2009.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 23 March 2009 at 18:05
Tags: Journalism
PageSuite, the provider of digital publications, has agreed a two-year contract to publish the full range of Johnston Press’s titles online, including newspapers, magazines, and supplements.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 20 March 2009 at 11:04
Tags: Journalism
The National Union of Journalists has welcomed the Government’s plan for a summit to discuss the future of regional media.
Junior culture minister Barbara Follett made the announcement during a debate in the House of Commons.
The idea had been put forward to culture secretary Andy Burnham by NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear, and members of the union’s parliamentary group, at a meeting yesterday afternoon.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 17 March 2009 at 09:30
Tags: Journalism
Alan Sugar has criticised Jeremy Paxman for being “unpleasant” and relying on “crib sheets under the table”.
After Paxman reportedly poked fun at The Apprentice, Sugar told the Radio Times: “That’s the pot talking to the kettle, isn’t it? I mean, he’s the most unpleasant person going.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 17 March 2009 at 08:58
Tags: Journalism
Construction Now, the online news service for the UK construction industry, has appointed Kieran Findlay as editor.
Findlay will oversee the publication of eight regional daily newsletters, along with the Construction Now national site.
He joined Construction Now as a reporter two years ago.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 17 March 2009 at 08:49
Tags: Journalism
Jessica Geen has been appointed new editor of gay news website pinknews.co.uk.
Geen, who joins from online news agency Adfero, replaces Tony Grew, who is joining a new parliament-reporting website, ispystrangers.org.
Posted by
Owen Amos
on 17 March 2009 at 08:40
Tags: Journalism
Media commentator Shaun Milne has been appointed consultant managing editor at Deadline Picture and Press Agency, the Scottish news service.
Milne – a former associate news editor at the Daily Record, and former assistant editor at the Scottish Daily Mirror – will be based in Edinburgh full time, for an initial three-month period.
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