This week’s new jobs from Journalism.co.uk

The following great new jobs have been added to the Journalism.co.uk jobs board this week:

Senior editor (healthcare)
Our client is a well-known healthcare communications agency with offices on both sides of the Atlantic. They are committed to quality and excellence in everything they do, creating integrated campaigns across a wide range of communication channels.
Salary: On application
Formula Won
London, United Kingdom
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Editor (medical journals)
If you are looking for a role that blends hands-on editorial tasks with a more strategic oversight remit, this could be a really interesting opportunity.
Salary: On application
Formula Won
Central London, United Kingdom
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Editor (special projects, medical)
If you are looking for a role that will offer you the opportunity to work on a range of different projects across multiple formats, this could be a great opportunity.
Salary: On application
Formula Won
Central London, United Kingdom
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Editor (medical)
Our client is a well-known healthcare communications agency with offices on both sides of the Atlantic. They are committed to quality and excellence in everything they do, creating integrated campaigns across a wide range of communication channels.
Salary: Competitive salary – full details on request
Formula Won
Central London, United Kingdom
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Editor/Journalist
Position open for editor or experienced journalist in the Maldives
Salary: DoE
Minivan News
Male’, Rest of World
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Technical editor
Talented and enthusiastic writer wanted to join team on leading online photography magazine
Salary: £16K-£25K
Magezine Publishing Ltd
Shireoaks, nr Worksop, England
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Machinery editor
Machinery editor required for Farmers Guardian, the UK’s national agricultural newspaper.
Salary: DoE
Farmers Guardian
Preston, England
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Journalists/PRs
This fast expanding London-based PR agency with an impressive and growing client list is looking for journalists and PRs at all levels to join their team.
Salary: DoE
Results PR
London, England
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Journalist/Reporter
Wanted: Reporter, for global weekly commodities newsletter, with ability to converse fluently in German and/or Italian. Suitable for ambitious trainee or an experienced journalist.
Salary: £17K – £19K
Agra Informa
Tunbridge Wells, England
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Assistant editor (permanent, full time)
With an excellent knowledge of domestic and international cricket and the ability to use existing technology and adapt to future changes for this market-leading cricket online news site.
Salary: DoE
ESPN
London (Hammersmith), England
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Producer
With substantial experience in a similar role, exceppent project management and communication skills and experience in delivering complex multiple web production projects in a commerce environment for this travel search engine.
Salary: Competitive
Travelzoo (Europe) Ltd
London, Covent Garden, United Kingdom
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Assistant producer
With experience as editiorial assistant, online content manager or online marketing assistant and excellent written and verbal communication skills for this travel website.
Salary: Up to £26K
Travelzoo (Europe) Ltd
London, Covent Garden, United Kingdom
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You can view the full jobs board at http://www.journalism.co.uk/36/64/.

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You must not embed the Telegraph’s embeddable video

It might look like you can embed this Telegraph video on your blog:

But no: please take note of the last part.

As both Journalism.co.uk and Fred Hatman, a journalist in South Africa found out, embed codes are only for ‘personal use’. That didn’t include Hatman (@fredhatman) even though he is a lone blogger.

Instead, we had to feature the story of the Telegraph journalist who was attacked by a lion after willingly entering its enclosure (mauling received surprisingly cheerfully) without the accompanying video. We got permission to link though!

Syndication@telegraph.co.uk informs us:

“I’m afraid at this time we can’t grant permission for you to host the video, but you are welcome to link to it.”

So we asked them why they supplied the code? And how could we fulfil the requirements for a licence? They replied:

“My understanding is that this function is for personal use only, not for commercial use, as per our terms and conditions.  Often we are able to issue a licence for the content, but on this occasion Telegraph.co.uk are not offering this video for web syndication.”

Journalism.co.uk wonders how Telegraph.co.uk will monitor and police misuse of the videos – if abuse was extensive. Or how they decide who is commercial and who is not? If, as the Syndication people tell us, ‘on this occasion Telegraph.co.uk are not offering this video for web syndication’ why bother supplying it at all? Isn’t that just asking for trouble?

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Ryan Sholin’s five tips for hiring developers

Ryan Sholin, of ReportingOn and WiredJournalists, shares five tips on the Knight News Challenge blog: “How to hire developers and make technology decisions without even trying in five easy steps.”

Tips at this link…

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First web editors appointed to American Society of News Editors’ board

The American Society of News Editors (ASNE) has appointed not one, but two web editors to its board – the first time web editors have been represented on the group’s executive in its almost 100-year history (picked up via Editor & Publisher).

John Harris, editor-in-chief of Politico, and Anthony Moor, deputy managing editor/interactive of Dallas Morning News, will take up the positions.

The appointments were made ‘to reach out to news executives beyond the group’s print newspaper roots‘, an ASNE announcement said.

The addition of web editors to the association’s board is one of many recent changes by the ASNE towards a more digital outlook. In April this year the body changed ‘Newspaper’ for ‘News’ in its name.

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Huffington Post seeks headline help on Twitter

Wow. The Huffington Post is taking the crowdsourcing news strategy one step further still:

Josh Young (@jny2), recently appointed social news editor for the HuffPo, tweeted:

“We’re crowdsourcing our latest Joe Wilson hed at http://huffingtonpost.com We came up with “No, YOU Lie” Can you do better? #headlinehelp”

(Via @jayrosen_nyu / Mediaite.com)

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The Internet Manifesto translated by its critics

The German Internet Manifesto, initiated by Sascha Lobo, Mario Sixtus, and Thomas Knuewer and supported by 12 named others – including the Guardian’s Mercedes Bunz – lays out 17 commandments for ‘how journalism works today’ (translated into several languages via http://www.internet-manifesto.org/).

However it has its critics, as well as its fans.

Take Stephen Moss, Guardian journalist (G2 thinker-in-residence, or  naturalist?) for example. Writing under his colleague Mercedes Bunz’s report he leaves a comment in response to Boombox:

boombox 09 Sep 09, 2:06pm:

“It’s funny how the people keenest on “journalism manifestos” never actually do any.”

stephenmoss 09 Sep 09, 4:59pm:

“That’s so unfair boombox. Sascha Lobo has been doing remarkable reportage from Kabul, Mario Sixtus has penetrated the tribal areas in Pakistan and filed a 200,000-word report on how Al-Qaida operates on his blog, and Thomas Knuewer is no doubt even now exposing commercial exploitation in the developing world, local government corruption in Dusseldorf and banking scandals across Europe. This is absolutely not just navel-gazing German theorising.”

Patricio Robles, technology reporter at Econsultancy also raises some interesting issues:

“While it does contain some succinct pearls of wisdom, it’s not exactly the Magna Carta for 21st-century journalism.”

He points out that it includes little discussion of journalistic ethics, and criticises its ‘PowerPoint marketing-speak’.

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#FollowJourn: @martinstabe/online editor

#FollowJourn: Martin Stabe

Who? Online editor at Retail Week

What? Former new media editor at Press Gazette; currently online editor for Retail Week magazine. He tracks developments in digital media on his personal blog.

Where? @martinstabe and www.martinstabe.com/blog

Contact? blog [at] martinstabe.com and martin.stabe [at] emap.com

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 Online paid content venture to take 20 per cent commission

An update on Journalism Online, the venture started by Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz, and Leo Hindery with the aim of helping news organisations charge for content.

• Nieman Journalism Lab reports that the company will take a 20 per cent cut of subscription revenue (after credit card fees).

• The document [PDF] submitted to the Newspaper Association of America reveals the plans and is published by the NJL.

• The Associated Press reports how IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Google Inc. ‘responded to a request by the Newspaper Association of America for proposals on ways to easily, unobtrusively charge for news on the web,’ according to the report.

• ‘Lots of fee ideas for media online’ reports the New York Times.

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Times of India: Protests in journalism department over ‘commercialisation of education’

Protests continue in India over the the ‘commercialisation of education’ at Allahabad University. Journalism students are disputing the introduction of a new bachelor course in media studies run by the Institute of Professional Studies.

The Times of India first reported the row between two rival departments – the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) – at this link.

Yesterday it reported that disruption continues:

“Even as the entire arts faculty was turned into a fortress on Thursday, the students of department of journalism and mass communication continued their ongoing protest. The students expressed their resentment through cartoons made on placards.”

Full story at this link…

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – searching UK newspaper articles

Search: Chipwrapper provides a search refined to UK newspaper articles – a good way to see who else might be reporting on your story. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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