Posted by
Press Gazette
on 8 February 2012 at 10:40
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, People, Television
The Royal Television Society has announced the shortlist for the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2011.
The awards, which celebrate the “creative and excellent journalism in UK news and current affairs”, will be hosted by ITV newsreader Mark Austin and take place on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at the London Hilton, Park Lane.
Posted by
William Turvill
on 31 January 2012 at 10:18
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Business, People
Luxury magazine publisher Aston Greenlake has appointed Scott Manson, formerly editor of Loaded magazine, as its new editor-in-chief.
Manson, who took over at British Airways title High Life after leaving Loaded, joins with a brief to launch new magazine titles in the luxury market. (more…)
Posted by
William Turvill
on 31 January 2012 at 10:15
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, People, Radio, Regional Newspapers, awards
BBC Radio Kent presenter Julia George received a double honour at this year’s Kent Media Awards.
As well as being named Journalist of the Year, George also won the Kent Broadcast Journalist of the Year award. (more…)
Posted by
William Turvill
on 30 January 2012 at 08:54
Tags: Newspapers, People, Regional Newspapers
The business secretary Vince Cable has praised regional newspapers for boosting local business development through the Regional Growth Fund (RGF).
Speaking at a Newspaper Conference lunch, the Liberal Democrat politician said that the scheme was allowing small businesses to access funds that would otherwise be unavailable. (more…)
Posted by
William Turvill
on 26 January 2012 at 10:09
Tags: Newspapers, People
National newspaper cartoonist Adrian Teal has revealed plans to publish a new book which takes the form of an 18th century tabloid newspaper.
Teal, whose work has featured in the Sunday Telegraph, the Sun and the Daily Mail, wants the fictional newspaper to capture the “truly scandalous stories of the era” in order to create a “Georgian Heat magazine”.
Posted by
Cleland Thom
on 26 January 2012 at 09:34
Tags: International, Journalism, Newspapers, People, Photography, press freedom
I was chatting to an Egyptian journalist, George al Masry, recently. He works for Al gomhuria, the state-owned Egyptian daily newspaper and has been active in the Tahrir Square revolution.
He is now helping to establish a free press in a country where the media has been heavily controlled.
He had just read one of my law updates, where I mentioned that a new European Union directive on data retention enabled 795 public bodies to request journalists’ phone records going back a year.
Posted by
William Turvill
on 24 January 2012 at 10:30
Tags: Journalism, Magazines, People, Regional Newspapers, awards
Archant’s group design editor Steve Bodycomb was named Editorial Person of the Year at the company’s annual internal awards ceremeony on Friday.
Other award winners included group digital development manager James Parfitt, who was named New Media Person of the Year, and Devon Life staff writer Anna Turns, who won Green Person of the Year.
Business and Professional Life magazine and the Royal Ascot Magazine were also honoured.
Posted by
William Turvill
on 24 January 2012 at 10:20
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers, People
Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has appointed Charles Starmer-Smith as head of travel.
Named Travel Journalist of the Year at the 2009 Travel Press Awards, he replaces Graham Boynton, who departed the Telegraph in December last year.
Boynton, who came ninth in the Press Gazette readers’ top 10 travel journalists in 2010, had been travel editor at TMG since 1998.
Posted by
Cleland Thom
on 19 January 2012 at 14:19
Tags: Journalism, Law, Magazines, National Newspapers, Newspapers, People, Photography, press freedom
Greater Manchester Police today rejected suggestions its officers were targeting a magazine photographer who claims he has been assaulted by officers three times while doing his job.
Stuart Littleford, editor of the Government and Public Sector Journal, has filed three complaints against the force, including two in the last four weeks. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 4 January 2012 at 11:29
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers, People
Bill Jamieson is understood to be standing down as executive editor of The Scotsman.
Jamieson, who won both business journalist of the year and journalist of the year at the 2009 Scottish Press Awards, will continue writing for both the Scotsman and its sister title Scotland on Sunday, according to All Media Scotland. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 3 January 2012 at 14:59
Tags: Journalism, People
Artist and editorial illustrator Ronald Searle, who has died aged 91, began his career aged 15 after sending in drawings on spec to the Cambridge Evening News, The Guardian notes in its obituary today.
After returning from World War Two he created the St Trinians cartoon for Lilliput magazine and in the 1950s he was a regular contributor to Punch. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 21 December 2011 at 13:49
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, People
Counsel for the phone-hacking victims David Sherborne appeared to think he was ambushing former Mirror editor Piers Morgan with a terribly incriminating smoking gun at the end of Morgan’s Leveson testimony yesterday.
But Morgan was ready for the accusation that the Mirror suppressed information about phone-hacking in 1998 and then used it for its own heinous means. And Sherborne ended up, it must be said, looking like a bit of a wally.
Here is their exchange (taken from the official transcript): (more…)
Posted by
Christian Jensen
on 16 December 2011 at 10:54
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, National Newspapers, People
Tributes are being paid to journalist, polemicist, atheist and left-wing campaigner Christopher Hitchens - who died last night.
Vanity Fair, the magazine where Hitchens was a contributing editor, today produced this video tribute:
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 15 December 2011 at 10:36
Tags: Journalism, People
Guardian technology journalist Charles Arthur has been named the journalist most likely to tell PRs to “sling their hook” in the CRAPPS, a cheeky set of awards given by PRs to journalists.
It’s the second time Arthur has been given the mixed accolade. Telegraph media and technology correspondent Emma Barnett has been described as the journalist PRs would most like to “bring to the dark side”, which is probably another mixed blessing. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 1 December 2011 at 10:43
Tags: Journalism, PR, People
PR Agency 10 yetis has released the shortlist for its cheeky annual Communicative Relations Awards from PR Professionals (The CRAPPS).
After receiving “thousands” of votes from PRs for the awards, which are run in association with Daryl Wilcox Publishing, here are the finalists:
(The winners are due to be announced on 15 December)
The journalist that makes you feel warm and furry on the inside: (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 16 November 2011 at 08:56
Tags: National Newspapers, Newspapers, People
The Sunday Times is reported to be cutting award-winning sports interviewer Paul Kimmage and Barcelona-based football reporter Ian Hawkey, the Sports Journalists Association reports. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 20 October 2011 at 09:32
Tags: People, awards
Matthew D’Ancona was named comment writer of the year at the annual comment awards organised by media networking and events company Editorial Intelligence this morning.
The Times and the Financial Times were the two publications with the most prizes, picking up four each.
Here is the full list of winners: (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 17 October 2011 at 11:07
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Newspapers, People, Regional Newspapers
The Daily Telegraph today pays tribute to the founder editor of Saga Magazine, Paul Bach, who has died aged 72.
An obituary in today’s Daily Telegraph tells the story of how Bach rose from a reporter on a weekly newspaper to starting what would eventually become the largest-circulation monthly magazine in Britain.
Bach was born in Forest Gate, East London, and found his first job as a reporter on the Stratford Express, before moving to South Wales and taking up various posts with Thomson Regional Newspapers (and winning an award for his coverage of the Aberfan disaster in 1966).
He was later editor in chief of the Celtic Press group of 12 regional newspapers and became editor of the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph in 1972.
In 1976 he returned to East London as group editor of the Stratford Express series before making the move into public relations in 1979 when he moved to Saga Holidays in Folkestone.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 17 October 2011 at 09:04
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers, People
The full video from the second Leveson Inquiry seminar held in London on 12 October has now gone online.
The two highlights are session one, where Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre gave his rousing defence of the freedom of the popular press (he starts about 17 minutes in). (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 11 October 2011 at 15:04
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers, People
The first Leveson Inquiry seminar on 6 October was a historic occasion - and the first time I have seen limelight-shy editors such as The Sun’s Dominic Mohan and the Mirror’s Richard Wallace speak in public. (more…)
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