#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – Twitter tips for freelancers

Freelancing and on Twitter? Try following @freelancesw, for advice and tips (via @joshhalliday). Tipster: Judith Townend.

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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Journalism Daily: Freelance photographers’ rights, AFP reporters injured and Express rapped by ASA

Journalism.co.uk is trialling a new service via the Editors’ Blog: a daily round-up of all the content published on the Journalism.co.uk site.

We hope you’ll find it useful as a quick digest of what’s gone on during the day (similar to our e-newsletter) and to check that you haven’t missed a posting.

We’ll be testing it out for a couple of weeks, so you can subscribe to the feed for the Journalism Daily here.

Let us know what you think – all feedback much appreciated.

News and features:

• Express criticised by ASA for masking advertorials as features
• NUJ photographers launch campaign against Guardian ‘rights grab’
• Meet the Trainers: Martin Cloake – How to pitch and market a book
• Baptiste Aboulian appointed associate editor of Ignites Europes

Ed’s picks:

• WSJ: Vibe magazine resurrected with web focus
• NMA: Mail Online stops pre-moderation of user comments
• AFP: Journalists wounded in Aghan bomb attack
• Independent.co.uk: Online ‘made a mockery of High Court’ in Baby P case
• Poynter Online: Tr.im’s shutdown – a warning about free services online

Tip of the day:

• Working with developers

#FollowJourn:

• @adamoxford/freelancer

On the Editors’ blog:

• The printing press versus Jesus… what year would you vote for?

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The printing press versus Jesus… what year would you vote for?

The invention of the Printing Press in 1439 is currently beating Jesus’ birth in an Intelligent Life online poll on the most important year in history.

With 34 per cent of the votes so far Gutenberg’s press is leading the birth of Jesus (24 per cent), the discovery of DNA (8 per cent), the fall of Nazism (8 per cent) and the beginning of the United States of America (6 per cent).

The poll of more than 2,600 people run by the Economist title, was sparked by an article by Andrew Marr. He and five Economist journalists came up with a rough shortlist for what they believed to be the most important years of all time.

Readers have been asked to write in with their own suggestions, which have included the year photography was invented, the French Revolution in 1789 and the birth of the World Wide Web. You can vote for an existing topic or suggest your own at this link.

Others have a slightly more egotistical angle, a fair number saw the year they were born as the most important…

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WSJ: Vibe magazine resurrected with web focus

Hip-hop magazine Vibe, which folded six weeks ago, has been given a new lease of life as a web-based magazine, according to the Wall Street Journal (registration required).

Vibe.com will be launched in the coming weeks and a print edition of the mag will be published on a quarterly basis.

Full post at this link…

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NMA: Mail Online stops pre-moderation of user comments

The Mail will now rely on users to flag up unsuitable comments. It will continue to use an automatic filter to pick up inappropriate language, but will only review comments if reported by readers.

The title says it hopes more comments will be published as a result.

But advertisers and moderation experts have raised concerns about the move.

Full story at this link…

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AFP: Journalists wounded in Aghan bomb attack

The AFP is reporting that two Associated Press journalists have been seriously wounded in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan.

The agency has identified the pair as photographer Emilio Morenatti, 40, and Andi Jatmiko, 44.

Full story at this link…

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Independent.co.uk: Online ‘made a mockery of High Court’ in Baby P case

“The rules which should have prevented online publication are governed by an outdated piece of legislation enacted at a time when Parliament could not have comprehended what a website might be, never mind know how one might work in the context of the criminal law,” writes the Independent’s law editor, Robert Verkaik.

Verkaik is referring to the transgression of reporting restrictions, which banned the identification of Baby P’s mother and stepdad, by bloggers, online forum users and Facebook groups. The restrictions were officially lifted this week.

“There then appears to be a double standard at work, where the law is incapable of punishing flagrant breaches of court orders by internet transgressors while imposing draconian sentences on the mainstream media for committing much less serious breaches. The internet was born into a lawless cyberspace and has little respect for the fusty orders of the High Court.”

Full article at this link…

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Poynter Online: Tr.im’s shutdown – a warning about free services online

Damon Kiesow comments on how the end of URL shortener tr.im, which announced on Sunday that it would discontinue its service, may come as a ‘wake-up call’ to bloggers and news organisations relying on free services to drive traffic to their websites.

Tr.im has since been resurrected – but the insecure future of such tools remains.

Full post at this link…

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#FollowJourn: @adamoxford/freelancer

#FollowJourn: Adam Oxford

Who? Freelance journalist.

What? Freelance tech writer and occasional bush blogger for www.learnasone.org

Where? @adamoxford

Contact? Check out his blog

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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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – working with developers

Collaboration is key. Developers are often keen to contribute to, and experiment with news content, so try and cross traditional working boundaries to create new online projects. Try and attend off-patch events to broaden your knowledge base. Tipster: Judith Townend.

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