Posted by
Sally Newall
on 23 January 2009 at 12:46
Tags: Journalism
A group of Irish university journalism students have launched a newspaper to serve a disadvantaged local community.
The students from the University of Limerick in Ireland have produced a 16-page freesheet for the community of Moyross on the outskirts of Limerick City as part of their university course. (more…)
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 23 January 2009 at 09:35
Tags: Journalism
The BBC has refused to broadcast a national appeal for donations to the Gaza relief effort, due to fears that it could damage their impartiality.
The Times has reported that the corporation feared that airing the appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) would fuel existing allegations of a pro Palestinian bias in its coverage of the conflict in the Middle East. (more…)
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 22 January 2009 at 13:02
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, Television
Former Sky News head Nick Pollard is among a group of 10 figures from broadcasting and sport leading a government review of sport on TV.
The group, headed by former Football Association chief David Davies, will review which sports events should be available on free terrestrial channels. (more…)
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 22 January 2009 at 10:14
Tags: Journalism
The list of entries for the Orwell Prize 2009 has been anounced.
62 journalists have submitted entries. The prize awards political writing in Britain that is considered to meet author George Orwell’s aim to “make political writing into art.” (more…)
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 19 January 2009 at 14:35
Tags: Journalism
Eight foreign journalists have been allowed into Hamas-controlled Gaza for the first time since the conflict began three weeks ago.
The Jerusalem Post reports that the decision followed campaigning by groups including a petition by the Israeli Foreign Press Association, the representative body for international journalists in Israel and the Palestinian territories. (more…)
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 19 January 2009 at 14:22
Tags: Journalism
News organisations around the world last week were left embarrassed after a widely reported story was revealed to be a fake.
Mumbrella, the Australian media and marketing blog, has reported that a video of a girl getting a tattoo in order to win a job conserving the islands of the Great Barrier reef was a fake. (more…)
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 19 January 2009 at 12:17
Tags: Journalism
Telegraph columnist Charles Moore has maintained his vow to withold his licence fee over the Andrew Sachs affair, despite a lunch meeting with BBC director-general Mark Thompson.
In his column, Moore has said refused to pay his £139.50 licence unless Jonathan Ross is sacked from his £6m a year presenting job. (more…)
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 19 January 2009 at 12:08
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, Radio
TalkSport has effectively ruled out reinstating sacked presenter Jon Gaunt by announcing the appointment of a full-time replacement.
Gaunt will be replaced by former Republic of Ireland footballer Andy Townsend and former journalist Mike Parry, director of communications at the Football association in the 10am to 1pm weekday slot.
Gaunt, now a Sun columnist, was sacked from the station in November after calling a London councillor a “Nazi” and an “arrogant pig” live on air.
After the incident, Gaunt was replaced temporarily by Ian Collins.
The former “shock jock” was dismissed from the station despite issuing an on-air apology.
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 16 January 2009 at 17:22
Tags: Journalism
Dennis Publishing has announced the launch of a new business-to-business poker title, Media Week has reported.
The new magazine, Insider Poker Business, will launch on the 27 January at the ICE gaming exhibition at Earls Court.
The publication is the latest edition to Dennis’ other poker titles, PokerPlayer and InsidePoker.
Inside Poker Business will be distributed quarterly to industry heads. Alun Bowden has been appointed editor-in-chief. He will also remain editor of InsidePoker.
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 16 January 2009 at 16:38
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, Television
ITV has fallen foul of Ofcom’s regional quotas for programme production outside of London, recieving fines of £220,000 for breaches by ITV1 in 2006 and 2007.
The company has been fined £20,000 for each of the 11 regional licenses it owns in England and Wales for not spending enough money on programmimg sourced outside the capital.
Scottish broadcaster STV, Ulster broadcaster UTV and Channel TV have all been fined for the same offence.
The Ofcom regional quota system requires 50 per cent of spending on productions to go on programmes sourced outside of London.
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 16 January 2009 at 15:28
Tags: Journalism
The Northern and Shell group, publishers of The Daily Express and Sunday Express, will now print issues of both papers locally in Malta.
The Daily Express, Sunday Express and Daily Star Sunday are currently printed in numerous locations on both a permanent and seasonal basis including Madrid, Majorca, Florida and Brussels.
Paul Ashford, group editorial director, said that the decision to expand to Malta was due to a rise in readership and popularity of the papers on the Mediterranean island.
The first issue was printed yesterday, and a spokesperson for the group said that it is hoped the Malta edition will be a permanent addition to the Express Newspapers portfolio.
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 16 January 2009 at 15:27
Tags: Journalism
Parliament’s broadcasting heads have defended a decision to stop screening of John McDonnell’s Commons outburst yesterday, the Daily Mail has reported.
According to the Mail’s report, laws passed in 1989 ruled that any disruption in the chamber cannot be broadcast.
Screening was stopped yesterday after McDonnell, Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, reacted angrily to Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon’s announcement of plans for a third runway and sixth terminal at the London airport.
McDonnell siezed the mace - the symbol of authority in Parliament - and shouted at Hoon, calling him, “a disgrace.”
Broadcasting chiefs instead screened the face of deputy Speaker Sir Alan Haselhurst.
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 16 January 2009 at 15:26
Tags: Journalism
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has filed for bankruptcy, Reuters has reported.
The paper is the 15th largest daily in the US based on circulation figures.
The Minneapolis paper becomes one of the biggest US titles to fall victim to the global recession.
Another US daily, The Boston Globe, owned by the New York Times, said this week that it is to cut 12 per cent of its newsroom staff.
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 16 January 2009 at 11:00
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, Radio
Jon Gaunt, The Sun columnist and former TalkSport “shock jock,” has criticised FiveLive presenters’ reluctance to relocate when the station moves from London to Salford in 2011.
In his column Gaunt responded to comments made by FiveLive presenter Nicky Campbell in an interview in the Media Guardian this week. (more…)
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 16 January 2009 at 10:28
Tags: Journalism, Magazines, Media Business
The decline in magazine advertising in the US increased each quarter in 2008, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
According to the paper, the number of advertising pages steadily declined throughout the year.
The report records a 17 per cent decrease for the fourth quarter compared to the same period in 2007.
In all of 2008, the number of advertising pages in consumer magazines fell nearly 12 per cent.
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 13 January 2009 at 15:23
Tags: National Newspapers
A Sri Lankan newspaper editor wrote a chilling editorial predicting his own death, published three days after he was shot dead in Sri Lanka’s captial, Colombo.
Jonathan Steele at The Guardian reports that Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of independent paper, the Sunday Leader, feared his death may be imminent. (more…)
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 12 January 2009 at 17:19
Tags: Journalism
Amnesty International is now inviting entries for its 18th annual Media Awards. The awards recognise excellence in journalism that has contributed to the UK public’s greater awareness and understanding of human rights issues.
2008 winners included Xan Rice of The Guardian who won the Gaby Rado Memorial Award for his reports from Kenya Tanzania and Somalia. The award is given to a journalist who has covered human rights stories for less than five years.
The closing dates for entries is 3 March. The winners will be announced in London on 2 June.
Posted by
Sally Newall
on 12 January 2009 at 11:39
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, Television
The BBC has apologised for editing comments made by a renowned psychologist in a radio interview, who was broadcast giving the “opposite” of her actual views on religion.
Dorothy Rowe complained that her comments made on depression for the BBC Radio 2 programme, What Do You Believe? broadcast on 21 October 2008 were edited to the extent that they misrepresented her views. (more…)
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