ThisisHampshire.co.uk: eInk producer Polymer Vision folds

Polymer Vision, the Dutch-owned technology company, has closed – taking with it its eInk product, Readius.

Readius was designed as a mobile phone screen, but the roll-screen technology had been touted as a possible electronic alternative to books and printed paper.

Plans for its release had been much delayed, reports jkOnTheRun – Journalism.co.uk first reported on its development in 2004.

Full story at this link…

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BBC Editors Blog: ‘The end of Fortress Journalism’

Interesting post – and equally interesting comments – from Peter Horrocks, director of BBC World service, as part of his essay for the Beeb’s ‘The Future of Journalism’ essay series:

“Most journalists have grown up with a fortress mindset. They have lived and worked in proud institutions with thick walls. Their daily knightly task has been simple: to battle journalists from other fortresses. But the fortresses are crumbling and courtly jousts with fellow journalists are no longer impressing the crowds. The end of fortress journalism is deeply unsettling for us and requires a profound change in the mindset and culture of journalism.”

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UK Freedom of Information Blog: FOIA act extended, but changes ‘disappointingly modest’

Catching up from news last week that the UK government has plans to extend the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to cover four new bodies: the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), the Financial Services Ombudsman, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and Academy schools.

The UK’s Campaign for FOI has described the proposals as narrow in scope – for example, contractors providing a service on behalf of a public agency will be covered, but only if that service ‘is a function of the authority’.

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Guardian: A behind-the-scenes look at the Pope’s newspaper

John Hooper speaks with L’Osservatore Romano editor Giovanni Maria Vian.

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#FollowJourn: @sarah_booker/web editor

#FollowJourn: Sarah Booker

Who? Web editor for the Worthing Herald.

What? Digital content and social media editor Worthing Herald series and Chichester Observer series.

Where? @sarah_booker

Contact? sarah.booker [at] jpress.co.uk

Just as we like to supply you with fresh and innovative tips every day, we’re recommending journalists to follow online too. They might be from any sector of the industry: please send suggestions (you can nominate yourself) to judith or laura at journalism.co.uk; or to @journalismnews.

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Currybet.net: On the media burying its own bad news

Martin Belam picks up on a blog post from No Rock And Roll Fun, which comments on the case of the BBC’s recent £45,000 payout in damages plus costs to the Muslim Council of Britain for comments made by a ‘panelist’ on Question Time.

The panelist was not named in the Telegraph’s report (nor the BBC’s) of the payout – despite being named elsewhere as the title’s ex-editor Charles Moore.

“With the impact of digital distribution, and the effect of the economic downturn, we have more than enough reasons to think that the news industry is dying. Treating our remaining paying customers like children who haven’t learnt to use Google yet makes us look like we have a collective death wish,” writes Belam.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – apps for news

News applications: Programmer-journalist Brian Boyer has a great list of news applications and visualisations to inspire journalists. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – visualising breaking news

Breaking news: Use MemeTracker to see how a breaking news story was covered by different organisations and visualise its life cycle in the media. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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Press Gazette: Times tops newspaper brands in recognition survey

The Times and Sunday Times were jointly ranked highest out of UK newspaper brands in this year’s Superbrands report, which looks at media ‘brand recognition’.

AT 131st, however, the papers were beaten into submission by BBC (5) and Sky (60). Google came 2nd to Microsoft in the report, which polls more than 2,000 adults.

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Huffington Post: ‘Close the J-Schools’

“Journalism is not a profession like engineering, medicine or even law. You can pick up most media skills on the job, or with a few hours of instruction. If you screw up, nobody dies, and nothing collapses. This is why so many – perhaps most – journalism pros have built successful careers without touching J-school, and why many of them considered a J-degree a dubious credential even in the field’s heyday,” writes Richard Sine.

Journalism school deans should cut their intakes to avoid flooding the industry with graduates, who will be eager to take on the role of laid-off staff, for lower pay, he adds.

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