Posted by
Press Gazette
on 18 February 2010 at 15:35
Tags: Agencies, Photography
The International Olympic Committee has appointed the Press Association as host national news agency for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The Sports Journalists’ Association has a full account.
Posted by
Katrina McLachlan
on 15 February 2010 at 10:37
Tags: Agencies, National Newspapers, Student Journalism
Journalism student Chris Slater was told to ride into Tesco on a bicycle as his first national press assigment whilst on work experience for Cavenish Press news agency in Manchester. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 11 February 2010 at 11:13
Tags: Agencies, People, Photography, press freedom
A Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed has been freed by the US military after 17 months’ detention in Iraq without charge.
Mohammed, an Iraqi who contributed to Reuters on a freelance basis, was released yesterday. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 10 February 2010 at 14:23
Tags: Agencies, People
The Press Association’s chief sports reporter Martyn Ziegler yesterday carried the Olympic torch on a leg of its journey to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver - the only British journalist to do so. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 13 January 2010 at 18:07
Tags: Agencies, Law
Kate Middleton is suing a German magazine for publishing a picture of her taken on Christmas day.
The Guardian reports that Middleton is suing Rex Features over a picture of her taken playing tennis tennis at Restormel Manor, Cornwall, which was not published in the UK.
In December the Queen warned editors against taking pictures of her family over the Christmas period, reminding them of the privacy clause in the Editors’ Code.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 16 December 2009 at 09:10
Tags: Agencies, Journalism, National Newspapers, People
A former Sunday Times Insight team journalist who exposed Israeli interrogation methods and forensically investigated the 1984 Brighton bomb has died aged 64.
Paul Eddy is praised in a Times obituary today as a journalist who “set standards for accuracy and attention to detail that were the benchmarks for good journalism”.
After dropping out of school at 15 he began his journalism career on the Leamington Morning News. He “toiled for a sweatshop news agency in one of the seedier parts of East London” before he set up his own agency in the West Midlands.
After tracking down John Profumo, who had gone into hiding following the revelation of his affair with Christine Keeler, he won a part-time contract with the Sunday Mirror. After then working shifts at the AP bureau in Athens, The Times reports, he “sidled on to the Sunday Times in 1971 through the traditional backdoor of casual shifts in the newsroom”.
Posted by
RoryCrew
on 14 December 2009 at 11:18
Tags: Agencies, Journalism, Newspapers
A paper which refused to abide by an embargo about a planned redevelopment of Southampton Football Club’s ground has been banned from covering the club - according to reports. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 4 December 2009 at 10:33
Tags: Agencies, International, Mobile, New Media, Online
Thomson Reuters has revamped its Reuters.com website to more widely showcase its business and finance coverage – executives also indicated the agency would eventually charge for access to some of its online content. (more…)
Posted by
Lara Oreilly
on 14 September 2009 at 12:20
Tags: Agencies, Journalism, People
A Press Association features writer who was left virtually blind after a car crash and lost her newborn son just over a year later won the first Woman of Substance award last week.
Lisa Salmon, 42, of Hosforth, Leeds, was presented with the prize by Barbara Taylor Bradford, author of the novel A Woman of Substance, which marks its 30th anniversary this year.
Posted by
Helen Potter
on 10 September 2009 at 08:23
Tags: Agencies, International, Journalism, New Media, Online, Photography
Reuters has launched an interactive multimedia project, Times of Crisis, charting the global impact of the current financial climate.
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Posted by
Helen Potter
on 7 September 2009 at 14:17
Tags: Agencies, Freedom of Information, Journalism, Newspapers, Photography, press freedom
International news agency, the Associated Press, has been criticised for publishing a picture of a dying US marine.
The picture, which depicts Lance Cpl Joshua Bernard being tended to by fellow soliders in Southern Afghanistan moments before the 21-year-old’s death, prompted outcry in the US. (more…)
Posted by
Conrad Quilty-Harper
on 26 August 2009 at 12:40
Tags: Agencies, Journalism
It was a typical silly season yarn. Reuters last week published a story on the repeated theft of the 30cm long Lego penis from the model giraffe found at the entrance to the Legoland Discovery Centre in Berlin.
The penis, which was made of 15,000 Lego bricks, had apparently been stolen four times and replaced at a cost of £2,600 on each occassion.
So problematic had the thefts become, the Centre was reported to be constructing a barrier to protect the animal’s plastic phallus from souvenir seekers.
Great story. If only it were true.
Reuters yesterday corrected the story (hattip: Regret the Error) saying each theft had related to something far less titilating. Rather than the giraffe’s pride and joy, punters had been making off with the giraffe’s tail.
Maybe something had been lost in translation.
The full correction:
09:23 25Aug09 RTRS-CORRECTED-German Lego giraffe tail repeatedly stolen(Correcting to ‘tail’ from ‘penis’)BERLIN, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Visitors to a tourist attraction in Berlin have been making off with an unusual memento — the 30 cm long tail of a Lego giraffe.The Lego tail belongs to a six metre tall model that has stood outside the entrance to the Legoland Discovery Centre on Potsdamer Platz since 2007.“It’s a popular souvenir,” a spokeswoman for the centre said on Tuesday. “It’s been stolen four times now …”The tail is made out of 15,000 Lego bricks. It takes model workers about one week to restore it at a cost of 3,000 euros ($4,300), the spokeswoman said.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 20 July 2009 at 14:52
Tags: Advertising, Agencies, B2B Magazines, Magazines, Media Business
If you thought the last year was a nightmare commercially for your publishing business - it could have been a lot worse.
New figures from the Central Office of Information reveal that government spending on advertising and marketing grew 43 per cent year-on-year to £540m in the 12 months to the end of March. Happy days then for many publications targeting the public sector.
How long can the spending spree last though? And what are the chances of a Conservative government simply sticking all the public sector ads up online for free?
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 17 July 2009 at 16:47
Tags: Agencies, Journalism, Student Journalism
Reuters has made its Handbook of Journalism available for free online for the first time.
It’s an amazing resource and something which all journalists should stick on the favourites list.
It kicks off by saying: “Everything we do as Reuters journalists has to be independent, free from bias and executed with the utmost integrity.”
Well said.
The ten absolutes of Reuters journalism are also worth repeating:
Posted by
Sally Griffith
on 14 May 2009 at 10:14
Tags: Agencies, Journalism
Press agency Sportsbeat is to make its content available online for the first time.
The website will syndicate copy from over 40 sports (excluding football, cricket and rugby union).
From its newsrooms in London and Manchester Sportsbeat provides over 20,000 stories a year to over 150 newspaper clients across the UK.
“The prospect of the 2012 Olympics has already seen an increase in appetite for content from the editors we supply,” said managing editor James Toney.
“We are dedicated to providing coverage of these Olympics sports all year round – and not just the big international events but competitions at national, regional and local level.”
Gerard Meagher and Tom Reynolds have been appointed to the agency’s London newsdesk.
Posted by
James Michael
on 8 April 2009 at 12:26
Tags: Advertising, Agencies, BBC, Broadcast, Media Business, Television
Estate agents are threatening to withhold their BBC licence fees in protest against a BBC television programme that encourages people not to use them, the Daily Telegraph reports today.
The BBC One programme ‘Axe the Agent?’ has been criticised for the way that it instructs viewers to buy and sell property and avoid paying agents fees.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Lee Bramzell, chief executive of the property industry website propertyindex.com, said that the programme’s premise and title were “deliberately antagonistic”.
“This is the kind of irresponsible broadcasting one might expect to see on Channel 5 but not from the state broadcaster,” he said.
Bramzell has written a letter of complaint to Mark Thompson, the director-general of the BBC.
But a BBC spokesman told the Daily Telegraph: “The programme has no intention of depriving estate agents of their livelihood and it complies with the BBC’s editorial guidelines. The question mark in the title is deliberate in making this a question and not a statement.
“At the beginning of each episode we also make it clear that not using an agent is a huge step and not to be taken lightly.”
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 23 March 2009 at 09:40
Tags: Agencies, National Newspapers, Photography
The first picture of shamed former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin enjoying his millions could be worth £30,000, according to Evening Standard picture editor Dave Ofield.
“He’s currently worth more than Britney”, Ofield tells The Guardian.
Photographers are staking out all Goodwin’s various homes in the hope of capturing the arch-villain of the credit crunch.
According to one news journalist, Steve Beech: “If he breaks cover he’s going to have snappers and TV cameras following him as if he’s Michael Jackson.”
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 25 February 2009 at 10:51
Tags: Agencies, National Union of Journalists
The National Union of Journalists claims that Thomson Reuters’ buoyant profits, announced yesterday, show it has the cash to pay its UK-based journalists more.
The NUJ is in dispute with the news agency over a 1.25 per cent across the board pay rise (with another 1.25 per cent linked to performance) and over plans to change many journalists from working a nine-day-fortnight to a 10-day one.
NUJ head of publishing Barry Fitzpatrick said: “Our members find it pretty hard to understand why a company taking increased revenues of $13.4 billion is trying to force through these changes without listening to its journalists’ concerns.
“They’ll also be asking why the 19 per cent increase in profits isn’t being reflected in management’s across-the-board 1.25 per cent pay offer.”
Journalists are to decide on Thursday whether or not to hold a strike ballot.
Posted by
Paul McNally
on 22 December 2008 at 11:50
Tags: Agencies
One of Reuters’ longest-serving correspondents, Arthur Spiegelman, died at his Los Angeles home at the weekend, aged 68.
Spiegelman, a former LA bureau chief and New York senior correspondent, spent 42 years at the global news agency covering stories including US presidential campaigns, the murder of John Lennon, the first Gulf War and the OJ Simpson murder trial.
Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger said: “Art’s writing was beloved of readers and editors alike, using a light touch to explore subjects from pop culture to politics and an ability to find a laugh or wry angle anywhere. He was a friend and mentor to legions of journalists.”
Posted by
Paul McNally
on 25 November 2008 at 07:13
Tags: Agencies
Reuters News editor-in-chief David Schlesinger might be upbeat about the future of journalism - but that hasn’t stopped one Reuters bureau from closing its doors.
Tech website The Register has done some digging and found that Adam Pasick, Reuters’ correspondent in virtual world Second Life, hasn’t filed a story in months.
“We’re still reporting on Second Life, but only as part of our usual tech and media coverage,” a Reuters spokeswoman tells the site.
“As a company we’re still committed to Second Life. We’re maintaining our corporate presence.”
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