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Press Gazette
on 18 October 2010 at 14:40
Tags: Agencies, People
A columnist working for Reuters’ Breakingviews financial commentary service has resigned after breaking the news agency’s rules on share dealing.
Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger told staff in a note today that the columnist had breached rules restricting staff from writing about companies in which they have a financial interest. (more…)
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Dominic Ponsford
on 12 October 2010 at 10:40
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Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 10 August 2010 at 10:07
Tags: Agencies, Journalism, Law, National Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Press Complaints Commission director Stephen Abell has got in touch to say that it is “simply wrong” to suggest, as I did in a blog post yesterday, that the PCC provides scant guidance for journalists and editors on the subject of death-knocks.
The Editors’ Code simply states that enquiries and approaches should be made with sympathy and discretion.
But Abell has pointed out that the PCC publishes a leaflet, available online, which details what people should do if they feel they are being harassed by a journalist.
The PCC has also published a leaflet headed “Media attention following a death”.
In this the PCC notes:
“When there is no public interest for doing so, journalists should not follow or persistently question people once they have been asked to desist. The PCC can help with unwanted approaches by passing desist messages to relevant editors and broadcasters. In emergencies, this service can be accessed out of office hours by calling 07659 152656.” (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 12 July 2010 at 09:44
Tags: Advertising, Agencies, Media Business
The latest quarterly Bellwether survey looking at the advertising plans of UK companies has found that 20 per cent of companies revised down their marketing budgets in the three months to June as opposed to 15 per cent who increased them.
The 4.6 per cent difference between positive and negative sentiments, compares with a 4.5 per cent difference the other way in the first quarter - Marketing Week reports.
While have some suggested that this could mean that Government spending cuts are set to prompt a double-dip recession, other data - cited by Marketing Week - suggests ad spending will increase by 3.3 per cent year on year in 2010.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 14 June 2010 at 10:57
Tags: Agencies, New Media, Online
South Africa 2010 is the first truly multimedia World Cup for many sports journalists, according to Gerry Cox, former chairman of the Football Writers’ Association.
Cox, who has covered the past four World Cups and runs the renowned Hayters sports reporting agency, knows from experience how much the media world has changed in the past decade.
And as he prepared to cover this year’s tournament in print, video and audio, he predicted that many of his colleagues will find themselves having to work differently from previous years.
“When I went to USA ’94, reporters were either print, TV or radio journalists. There were no websites as such, and there were clear lines of demarcation.
“Now it is completely different. The media has merged to such an extent that dyed-in-the-wool newspapermen will be blogging and providing audio-visual content for their websites long before their words go into print.
“They will be expected to file instantly from press conferences – subject to embargo – and otherwise tweet, blog and give round the clock updates from the events they cover. Newspapers now see themselves as multimedia content producers in the digital age, and expect their staff to provide a lot of that content.”
Hayters crossed the multimedia divide a decade ago, and now regularly films pre-and post-match press conferences from the Premier and Champions League as well as providing the editorial services they have been known for since the 1950s.
“Hayters has always had great contacts and realised long ago that if we were interviewing some of the biggest names in sport, we could capture that in sound and vision as well as print. We knew we could produce broadcast-quality pictures with lightweight and affordable cameras, and began to re-train our journalists and take on specialists.
“Now, with newspapers cutting back on their freelance budgets, we find we can keep our relationship going by providing them with video, audio and a newsfeed for their websites as well as copy for their print editions.”
But do not expect all football writers to film, edit and upload video content as well as send copy through. For a start, there are strict limits on what can be done at any ground, especially in a World Cup stadium.
“FIFA accreditation is quite explicit in banning non-rights holders from stadia, so at matches we will concentrate on written work, and do most of our video and audio at England and other press conferences,” added Cox.
And Hayters will not just be interviewing the likes of Wayne Rooney and Fabio Capello.
“We will be working with newspapers to film their journalists during the tournament, discussing the issues of the day. There will be plenty of other interview opportunities, too, from brand ambassadors, to fans and celebrities. The days when you could simply go along and report on the match are long gone for most of us – fans want round the clock coverage, and that is what we try to accommodate.”
Hayters (www.hayters.com) can be contacted on sport@hayters.com or at 020 8808 3300
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 8 June 2010 at 07:32
Tags: Agencies, People
Reporter Helen Thomas has abruptly retired after 57 years covering the White House beat following a row over comments she made about Israel.
Hearst News Service has announced the immediate retirement of the reporter who was due to turn 90 this year. The LA Times reports that she told a rabbi at a White House event last month that the Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine”.
The LA Times reports:
Her style was direct, persistent and repetitive. She became a staple of the White House press room, an institutional mainstay. At news conferences, presidents called on her by name. To her delight, Boris Yeltsin did too.
Her questioning of President George W. Bush on the Iraq war made Thomas a thorn in the side of the administration and a hero of the antiwar left. She was introduced to a new generation through a cameo appearance in comedian Stephen Colbert’s searing critique of the press at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Assn. Dinner. In the video of Colbert’s audition tape for the job of press secretary, the satirist tries to dodge Thomas’ questions but cannot shake her.
“She was always the first person there in the morning and she was the last person to leave at night. She felt the White House was her personal responsibility,” said Ron Cohen, who supervised Thomas as a UPI Washington bureau chief.
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:
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