Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – tools for timelines

Timelines: Looking for an alternative to Dipity? Have a play with Capzles, which builds rich media timelines, and Lifeblob and Timetoast for size. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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Press Gazette: Press Gazette bought by Progressive Media

Following announcement of its closure earlier this month, Press Gazette has been bought by Progressive Media.

Former owner Wilmington said it will collaborate with Progressive on the British Press Awards.

Full article at this link…

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New York Observer: Variety and the shifting Hollywood ‘press corp’

“There is no power structure. It’s all turned inside out and upside down. Everyone claims victory, but no one seems to have it, nobody is powerful enough to measure it. And, above all, it’s one nasty, mean, shrill place,” says John Koblin about Hollywood and the now shared agenda between ‘established’ press and online independents.

Variety is one title facing this challenge – and looking to pay walls, for archive and specialised content, to boost falling revenues from advertising.

Full article at this link…

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Alan Mutter: ’3 jailed journalists, 2 very different reactions’

Alan Mutter asks, why has there been so little coverage of the detention of Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee by their own news organisation?

While NPR has pledged to highlight the case of its contributor, the jailed US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, other cases are not aided by media attention, according to Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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FT.com: Lionel Barber on financial journalism and the economic crisis

Financial Times editor Lionel Barber asks whether the media should have foreseen the global financial crisis.

At the beginning, says Barber: “Most reporters working in this so-called ‘shadow banking system’ found it hard to interest their superiors who controlled space and who were more interested in broadcasting the ‘good news’ story of rising property prices and economic growth.”

While journalists were not the only ones to ‘fall down on the job’, there were four key weaknesses in the media’s coverage of the economy in the build-up to the crash (he goes on to outline these).

But, he adds:

“Many of the most important developments of the past decade (…) have largely been unanticipated or failed to attract the attention they deserved. Journalists, in this respect, have a crucial role to play. Flawed they may be, but they still have the capacity to be the canaries in the mine. Long may it be so.”

Full article at this link…

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ASNE: Newspaper staff numbers fall, as online journalists rise

Missed this release from the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) detailing the results of its annual employment survey in the US daily newspaper industry.

Figures from last year suggest a loss of 5,900 newsroom jobs at daily newspapers – a drop in journalists of 11.3 per cent.

In contrast, the 2008 survey suggests 2,300 newsroom journalists were working online-only – and increase of 600 from 2007.

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Boston.com: US Senate to hold hearings on newspaper industry finances

Senator John Kerry will oversee a series of hearings in Washington next week on the US newspaper industry’s financial problems.

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Mail reports that a Russian journalist has ‘blasted Big Brother Britain’

This story appears to be only reported at MailOnline, (let us know if you spot it elsewhere), with 27 comments appearing under the story, to date.

Will Stewart reports that “a Russian journalist believes the level of surveillance is worse in ‘Big Brother Britain’ than it was in Russia during the Soviet era.”

“Irada Zeinalova, who is based in London, said she felt she was being constantly spied on by security cameras.

“She highlighted how in the UK the level of monitoring is such that even rubbish bins have computer chips fitted so councils can check what householders are throwing out.

“‘Security has got absurd,’ she said. ‘I don’t like that level of intrusion into my private life’.”

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The Editorialiste: ‘New media reality check’ for new journalists

Andrew Nusca shares his thoughts on the new media skills needed by modern day journalists:

“As new media has increased in popularity and usage, this myth has populated of the multi-talented reporter – you know, the one carrying all the gear a few paragraphs back. And while it’s certainly an ideal, it’s not a necessity. In fact, it’s barely a reality.”

He follows this with some very useful advice for journalists entering the profession:

“For most online journalism, all you need to know is how to blog and how to use a CMS, or content management system.”

Full post at this link…

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Andrew Stroehlein: “Welcome to a world without foreign correspondents”

“We’ve all watched the cutting of foreign news budgets for so long that we’ve become almost numb to it,” comments Andrew Stroehlein, communications director for the International Crisis Group, on the Reuters AlertNet blog.

“Another bureau cut here, another three correspondent posts dropped there – drip, drip, drip – the dwindling capacity of overseas news gathering is constant background noise. Or ever-increasing silence, perhaps.

“But now we’ve come to two situations that show us what the world will be like when there are no foreign correspondents left,” Strohlein says – pointing to Somalia and Sri Lanka as examples.

Full post at this link…

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