Editor&Publisher: Whistleblower claims WSJ editors delayed Madoff investigation

“The key ‘whistleblower’ in the Bernard Madoff fraud case, Harry Markopolos, testified today [Feb 4 2009] before Congress, alleging among other things that he approached the Wall Street Journal on the story more than three years ago, and the newspaper ultimately did nothing,” Editor&Publisher reports.

Full story at this link…

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Sports Journalists’ Association: FT to drop Saturday Sports section

According to the Sports Journalists Association, the Financial Times ‘has decided to cut its sports coverage in the paper from the end of this month.’

“…features sub Charles Morris – who has edited the paper’s sports coverage – keeps his job, [but] the space dedicated to the subject, even in the £2.30 Weekend edition, will be cut as pagination is reduced,” the SJA reports on its blog.

Full story at this link…

Update: the FT confirmed to Journalism.co.uk that the weekly sports section will be cut from Saturday 14 February, ‘as part of a strategy to focus on our core strength,’ a spokesperson from the paper said. The paper had already limited its coverage to one day a week in 2007.

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MediaGuardian: Some Independent technical staff to move to Associated Newspapers

MediaGuardian reports that it ‘understands’ that ‘some technical staff’ at the Independent and Independent on Sunday “are expected to become formally employed by Associated Newspapers under the two companies’ office sharing agreement.” Full story at this link…

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – RSS feed for tips of the day

Want all our tips of the day directly to your reader? Use this RSS feed address: http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/category/top-tips-for-journalists/feed You can customise other categories in our Editors’ blog in that fashion as well: e.g ‘press-freedom-and-ethics’ or ‘citizen journalism’. Tipster: Judith Townend. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story…

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BJP: Getty and Scoopt founder on why cit-j site was ‘doomed’

Dedicated citizen journalism agency model can never work, says founder Kyle Macrae.

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Media Release: Sky News opens Dubai bureau

Sky News is to open a new bureau in Dubai in mid-late March headed up by reporter Ashish Joshi.

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NYTimes.com: Rival Twitter account launched – The Media is Thriving

Countering Twitter channel @themediaisdying is the newly launched @mediaisthriving, dedicated to good news about the industry.

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Digital Britain: this time you can comment

Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report last month was debated, discussed and pondered far and wide in media land. Now (HT @tom_watson) there’s an open version of the document with a commenting feature built in.

Writetoreply.org has the report in sections and any comments left are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.

The authors of the report are encouraged to subscribe to the comments RSS…

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Bild reaches out to blogosphere with Twingly

We’ve seen it picked up by newspapers elsewhere in Europe, but this week Germany’s Bild announced it will improve its connections with bloggers by introducing Twingly to its sport, entertainment, German premier league football and English-language site, Bild.com.

The Blogstream widget links back to bloggers who are linking to Bild content in an attempt to share some link love and let the paper see where its content is being picked up and talked about.

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CMLP: Is liveblogging a trial journalism?

Citizen Media Law Project’s Arthur Bright looks at the pros and cons of liveblogging and Twittering from the courtroom.

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