#followjourn: @kristinelowe/media journalist

#FollowJourn: Kristine Lowe

Who? Blogger and journalist currently based in Norway covering the media industry – for the media industry

What? She writes for numerous titles in Scandinavia and the UK/US, and founded The Norwegian Online News Association (NONA)

Where? @kristinelowe

Contact? Take a look at her blog or email kristine_lowe [at] yahoo.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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Journalism Daily: 3am.co.uk launch, MSNBC and EveryBlock, Bauer Radio’s new deal

A daily round-up of all the content published on the Journalism.co.uk site. Additionally, you can sign up to our e-newsletter and subscribe to the feed for the Journalism Daily here.

News and features:

• 3am.co.uk goes live with ‘breaking news bleats’
• Demand Media buys minority stake in liveblogging firm CoveritLive
• MSNBC buys neighbourhood news aggregator EveryBlock

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• Freelance job listings

#FollowJourn:

• @mathewi/communities editor

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• Former Total Politics editor to start up PR company

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Former Total Politics editor to start up PR company

Iain Dale reports that Total Politics’ political editor, Ben Duckworth, will replace Sarah MacKinlay as editor.

MacKinlay, who edited the magazine – which brands itself as non-partisan – for 18 months, plans to start up a new PR company called Journalista. Dale writes:

“I know what a challenge it is to start up a new business in a recession. Journalista, among other things, will be doing PR for politicians and other participants in the world of politics.”

Dale shares the traditional departing gift given to MacKinlay on his blog.

Full post at this link…

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Media Release: Bauer Radio signs syndication deal with Independent.co.uk

Independent.co.uk will now stream radio broadcasts from Bauer in a syndication deal.

A widget on the site will launch a radio player streaming KISS 100 and MAGIC 105.4.

Full release at this link…

Earlier this month the BBC announced a free video-sharing deal with several UK national newspaper websites.

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Public Agenda: Private newspapers in Africa hit by advertising slump

Newspapers across the world are in trouble, and private newspapers in Africa have been hit particularly hard, writes Amos Safo for Public Agenda. Using Ghana as an example, he reports that many newspapers are being suffocated out of the market:

“[T]hanks firstly, to the increasing price of newsprint and associated costs. Secondly many newspapers are being denied adverts not only by private companies, but state institutions. As you read this article, The Statesman has folded up temporarily to regroup. Other newspapers, including Public Agenda are heavily indebted to their printers to the extent that some have not paid their reporters for three months.”

Full story at this link…

(also at AllAfrica.com)

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CJR: The Guardian’s Washington bureau chief on US/UK news models

Our second pick from the Columbia Journalism Review today: a lengthy Q&A with the Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, Ewen MacAskill.

There is lots of ground covered; MacAskill’s explanation of the Guardian’s approach in the States and his thoughts on differences between US and UK journalistic technique make particularly interesting reading.  An extract:

“[I]n some ways, the American system is more transparent, but because of the more adversarial system in Britain, sometimes more stories come out there. It’s a contradiction: the American system is more transparent, but in spite of that, an awful lot goes on behind the scenes that we never get to hear about.”

Full Q&A at this link…

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CJR: A ‘new threat’ to Middle East journalism – created in the US

A piece by Lawrence Pintak and Yosri Fouda in the Columbia Journalism Review argues that ‘well-meaning’ Western journalism rights groups undermine journalism ‘by defending Arab and Iranian online activists who have been jailed or harassed by the authorities’.

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The Committee to Protect Journalists responds here.

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Portfolio.com: The Reader’s Digest Index

Taking inspiration from the Harper’s Magazine signature feature, Portfolio.com has produced the Reader’s Digest Index, following yesterday’s news that the US magazine is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Here are a few of the most pertinent Reader’s Digest facts, as reported by Portfolio:

• Current debt: $1.6 billion.

• Amount of interest payment owed today: $27 million.

• Number of US employees let go in 2009: 300.

• Chapter by which its parent company is filing to protect itself: 11.

• Percentage it hopes to reduce its debt: 75.

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AP: Amish newspaper is a non-electric internet, says publisher

Keith Rathbun, publisher of the Ohio-based Amish newspaper, the Budget, isn’t worried about the threat to newspaper sales posed by the internet, reports the Associated Press. While the paper does have an online presence, http://www.thebudgetnewspaper.com/, only local news briefs are available.

“People call The Budget the Amish Internet,” Rathbun says. “It’s non-electric, it’s on paper, but it’s the same thing.”

Full story at this link…

• Related: British journalism student Jessica Best undertook a two week internship at the paper earlier this summer with the aid of a travel grant, and shared some of her interpretations on her blog.

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