The Free Speech Protection Act (2009), which would stop US courts recognising foreign libel actions against journalists and publishers, if the same suits were not recognisable under US law, has been reintroduced to the US Senate.
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Iain Hepburn, who edited the footage, shows how the Mail is using Flip cameras to cover hard news topics – in this case Charles Lavery in Afghanistan.
Tags: Afghanistan, Charles Lavery, Flip Ultra, Iain Hepburn, Sunday Mail, Video
Tim Armstrong, Google advertising executive, is using his private investment company, Polar Capital Group, to back Patch – a community news organisation, which also boasts CUNY professor and media blogger Jeff Jarvis on its editorial board.
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Web traffic to The Sun surged on February 13 following a report on 13-year-old new dad Alfie Patten.
According to a press release from the title, the story became The Sun’s most popular online article of all time recording 3.9 million unique users in one day, beating the previous high of 1.6 million.
UK unique users came in at 884,000, while in the three days up to and including February 15 a video of new parents Patten and girlfriend Chantelle Steadman attracted 1.2 million views, the release claims.
The website’s message boards saw 180,000 users reading and leaving comments on the story.
Tags: Alfie Patten, Chantelle Steadman, online article, The Sun, theSun.co.uk, traffic record Web traffic, uk, United Kingdom, web traffic
“It is easy for people in traditional media to look at the internet and say, ‘Oh God, the internet is taking away our readers and advertisers’. But – and I want to be really clear about this – it is not Google that is taking advertisers away. It is consumers changing their behaviour,” says former Trinity Mirror man.
Tags: Advertising, Chief, google, Matt Brittin, media industry, Telegraph.co.uk, Trinity Mirror, United Kingdom
Following yesterday’s gathering of photographers at Scotland Yard in protest at a new terror law, this comes from Ara-Maye on Flickr. It’s an all rights reserved photograph so we can’t reproduce here but take a look at this link, for an example of photographers turning the lens on themselves, and again…
Tags: photographer, photographers, Scotland Yard, terror law
Mobile: Got an iPhone? Then find the breaking news application for you using this Mashable list of 40 apps. Tipster: Laura Oliver.
To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.
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From the ReadWriteWeb (via Martin Stabe) “Harper’s Index, the most thought provoking fun you’ll find on one printed page, is turning 25 years old.”
Harper’s Magazine, launched in 1850 and the Index ‘is the first page that many readers skip to in each issue’, according the RWW.
“To celebrate the Index’s anniversary, Harper’s has put the full index of biting trivia one-liners up on its website for searching and reposting on Twitter.”
And you can follow Harper’s on Twitter too, they’re @harpers.
Tags: Harper, Harper's Magazine, harpers index, harpers magazine, Martin Stabe, Twitter
Following Friday’s NUJ meeting at the Guardian, which confirmed a pay freeze for 2009, the National Union of Journalists has released a statement reminding managers at the Guardian Media Group that they are obliged to enter negotiations with the union.
“It has been reported that management are not open to consultation on the pay freeze, but under the union’s agreements with the company consultation must take place.
“The company has stated that the economic downturn means it can’t afford to increase salaries this year. It has also announced that most executive bonuses won’t be paid.”
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Anthony Suau takes top prize in photography contest for his image of home evictions in Cleveland, Ohio.
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