#FollowJourn: @iainmhepburn/digital editor

#FollowJourn: Iain Hepburn

Who? Digital editor and multimedia journalist.

What? Currently digital editor for Daily Record.

Where? @iainmhepburn.

Contact? Send him a tweet!

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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Joey Baker: ‘Mr Keller, I’m calling you to account’

‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’ is how Joey Baker, business director for college newsroom organisation CoPress, and an intern at NewsTrust, opens an open letter to the NY Times executive editor.

“Bill Keller,  (…) gave an interview to TIME magazine that showed a total lack of transparency, a fear that journalism itself was under attack, and a disturbing amount of the ‘old media’ mindset. This is a look at what he got wrong, how to fix it.”

Full letter at this link…

Baker reckons he’s killed his chances of ever getting a job at the Times. Jeff Jarvis thinks they should consider hiring him. We don’t know if it’s caught @nytkeller’s attention yet.

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AfricaNews: Obama praises Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas for risking life to report the truth

“US President Barack Obama paid tribute to Ghanaian ace investigative journalist and AfricaNews’ reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas for his selfless work towards humanity. Obama said the democratic dispensation in Ghana is worth emulating across the continent to boost press freedom and governance,” Africa News reports.

Full story at this link…

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – tools for playing with data

Data: Great round-up from Nathan Yau, author of the Flowing Data blog, for the Guardian on tools for journalists looking to make better use of numbers and ways to visualise figures. 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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‘Gerbalism’? Where have we heard that before?

Delicious has a rather neat feature that allows you to see what are the most popular recent bookmarks for a particular keyword.

While  browsing a RSS feed of recent popular bookmarks with the tag ‘journalism’, we were somewhat amused to come across a blog post at the Toronto star with the title ‘Is it journalism or ‘gerbalism‘?

This rang a bell with some of the longer-serving members of Journalism.co.uk. A quick search of our archives revealed a story published on 1 April 2004 about the launch of a rodent-focused new ‘ezine’ called gerbalism.co.uk.

Now every rodent lover knows that gerbil ends in ‘il’ and not ‘al’ so it is doubly strange that this mis-spelled and entirely fictitious term should surface again five years later in a journalism-related blog post headline.

Which just goes to prove that there’s no fool like an old (April’s) fool and that it’s not just gerbils that have long tails…

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Slideshare: Steve Buttry’s ‘Twitter for journalists’ presentation

Courtesy of Slideshare comes Steve Buttry’s presentation on Twitter for Journalists.

(@stevebuttry is coach for the ‘Complete Community Connection’ (C3) programme at Gazette Communications in the US)

A great resource for those just getting into tweeting or if you need to talk your news colleagues around…

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Telegraph relaunches mobile website

The Telegraph has relaunched its mobile website – the second redesign of the site almost a year after its last overhaul in August 2008, following its launch in July last year.

The revamped site now offers video content from Telegraph TV and site-wide mobile search, a press release said.

The redesign of the site, which was implemented by Bluestar Mobile – the firm behind the Independent’s mobile launch too, will also offer new ad formats including banner ads, Google Ad Sense and sponsorships.

“Mobile is an increasingly important platform for both our readers and advertisers – it is also an area which is going through major change. At TMG we are working to ensure that we remain at the forefront of innovation and offer our readers and advertisers the most compelling product available,” said Maani Safa, who was named head of mobile for Telegraph Media Group in February, in the release.

In October last year the title launched its Google Android app.

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Event: Media Standards Trust’s NewsInnovationLondon

It’s NewsInnovationLondon today and the Journalism.co.uk team will be on the scene (come and say hello to @jtownend and @lauraoliver if you’re there).

The Media Standards Trust (MST) and Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) event is in an ‘unconference’ style with multiple speakers contributing on a series of topics – all linked by the theme of innovation in news, whether that’s new tools, new business models or new practices.

You can read more about the thinking behind it on the MST blog.

We’ll be tweeting some updates via our personal accounts and on @journalism_live, but you can follow the Twitter backchannel for the event below:

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Comment is Free: Phone hacking – select committee must move quickly, says Paul Farrelly

Paul Farrelly, member of the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee, says the committee had to react quickly to the Guardian’s revelations about alleged phone hacking by the News of the World – but acknowledges that ‘the Guardian story has a long pedigree’.

Farrelly adds that the committee will be pursuing the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) further over its phone hacking investigations to date.

Full article at this link…

See Journalism.co.uk’s coverage of the phone hacking allegations at this link.

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Reuters: Detained Current journalist admits lawbreaking in Korea

Laura Ling, one of two Current TV journalists currently being held in North Korea, has admitted to breaking the law in a phonecall to her sister.

Ling told her sibling Lisa that the pair needed help from the US government to in fighting for amnesty.

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