Former Scotland on Sunday assistant editor signed up by magazine to effectively replace Stephen Pollard, who left to edit the Jewish Chronicle.
Tags: Alex Massie, assistant editor, Scotland, Stephen Pollard, The Jewish Chronicle
One of the biggest problems with bringing SEO into a newsroom is how it is introduced, says Rachelle Money, who offers her tips on SEO for journalists.
Tags: CyberJournalist.net, Rachelle Money, seo, SEOs
Martin Moore updates us on progress with the Media Standards Trust’s Transparency Initiative and says digital labelling not ‘digital kitemarks’ are needed.
“Digital labelling is not about telling people what’s good and what’s bad, it’s about telling people what is (…) This is very very different from kitemarking, with its implications of top-down editorial judgment,” writes Moore.
Tags: Martin Moore, Media Standards Trust
All you really need to know about UK tabloid The Sun‘s editor Rebekah Wade‘s Hugh Cudlipp lecture, courtesy of Wordle (hat tip to Jason Cobb). Or read the speech in full here.
Tags: editor, Hugh Cudlipp, Jason Cobb, News International, Rebekah Wade, The Sun, The Sun's Group Limited, United Kingdom
Tags: BBC, Channel 4 News, DEC, Disasters Emergency Committee, Gaza, ITN, Sky
1. Material to stuff your Guy Fawkes effigy with on Bonfire Night.
2. Paper mountains at your local recycling depot.
3. Liners for your kitty litter trayers, rabbit hutches etc.
4. The joy of finding and reading other people’s paid-for newspapers on the train/underground/bus.
5. Wrapping for your fish and chips.
6. Material for your papier mâché models.
7. Getting your letterboxes jammed stuck with weekend supplements.
8. Part-time employment for your children.
9. Newsagents. And newsagents whingeing about the newstrade.
10. Ad inserts and catalogues offering 1001 pointless gadgets to solve problems you will never have.
11. The ability to buy soft porn under the not-very-convincing pretence of being interested in the daily news.
12. Cliché-ridden headlines and terrible puns.
13. Insulation when sleeping rough (although cardboard works just as well).
14. Free CDs, DVDs, posters etc that you will never listen to, view or display.
15. Material to protect the floor, soak up spilt tea etc when the builders are in.
16. Something to read when you are on the loo (doesn’t seem quite right to do that with a laptop, although mobile devices are a bit more discreet).
17. Inky, black fingers.
18. Deforestation (although it is equally possible that fewer trees might get planted in managed forests).
19. The unintelligible cry of news vendors on street corners.
20. Having free papers jammed into your stomach at the entrances to underground stations.
21. Training the dog to fetch the paper/attack the paper boy/girl/person in the mornings.
22. Large piles of free newspapers dumped in skips.
23. Skidding on sodden lumps of old newspapers left out in the rain on pavements and roads.
24. For future generations, birthday gifts of a copy of the newspaper that was published on the day they were born.
25. Something to clean the windows with.
26. The environmental impact of printing, delivering and collecting returns (and the loss of related jobs).
27. Trying to read broadsheet newspapers on crowded trains/planes/buses etc
28. The wonderful, if often unintentional, wit of A-boards outside newsagents.
29. A surveillance device for bad spies.
30. Fuel to get the kindling going in your open fire, Aga, woodburning stove, bonfire etc.
But seriously…
Tags: headlines, mobile devices, Newspapers, newstrade, printing, recycling, surveillance device
The New York Times and GateHouse Media have settled their legal case out of court.
GateHouse Media had raised the action against the Times for links found on Boston.com to its local website network.
Tags: Boston.com, Gatehouse, GateHouse Media, local website network, New York Times, the New York Times, the New York Times Co, The Times, The Times Global Broadcasting Co Ltd
CondeNet will be absorbed into Conde Nast Digital after 13 years of operating as and independent unit.
Tags: Conde Nast, condenet
The BBC has been on the receiving end this weekend of some fairly heavy criticism for not broadcasting an appeal from the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) for donations to help people in the Gaza region.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, a group of 50 MPs launching an Early Day Motion, 11,000 viewers and protestors outside Broadcasting House have urged the corporation to reconsider its stance.
“What we’re not going to do is run a free-standing appeal on our airwaves. We do want to cover the humanitarian story, we want to cover it in our news programmes where we can put it in context and we can do it in a careful, balanced objective way,” said director-general Mark Thompson on BBC Breakfast.
Thompson also explained the decision via the BBC Editors Blog.
Sky News joined the broadcaster today in saying it will not show the DEC message – following up the announcement with an online debate with foreign news head Adrian Wells.
But elsewhere Al Jazeera will run public service announcements relating to the campaign from today and the 10 Downing St website is carrying a news release and link to the DEC site.
Meanwhile Tony Benn used an appearance on the Today programme to mention the appeal despite the BBC’s stance.
As such, there’s an argument that the BBC’s refusal to broadcast the charity’s appeal is generating even more coverage for it.
Blogger Martin Belam points out that an info box on DEC is carried on several pages of bbc.co.uk.
“Depending on where you stand, the BBC decision over the DEC appeal is either a fig-leaf to cover a previous lack of impartiality, evidence that the BBC will do absolutely anything to appease their Israeli masters, or a cunning ruse to to gain even more publicity for the appeal than merely broadcasting it ever would have done,” writes Belam.
As such, what is inarguable is the heated response that any coverage of the Gaza situation by the BBC will receive and the disagreement it will cause, says Belam.
A lose-lose situation for the Beeb?
UPDATE: The video has now been aired on ITN and you can view it here.
Tags: Adrian Wells, Archbishop, BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, Canterbury, Director General, Disasters Emergency Committee, foreign news head, Gaza, ITN, Mark Thompson, Martin Belam, online debate, Sky News, Tony Benn
Following Saturday’s job crisis summit, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has launched a hotline for journalists to anonymously report instances where cutbacks are affecting the quality of journalism in their workplace.
Tags: National Union, National Union of Journalists, nuj
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