Coventry University has launched a postgraduate course in health journalism. The university believes it is the first of its kind in Europe and hopes the new MA will address the ‘massive gap’ in training of specialist journalists in this area.
Tags: Birmingham Post, Coventry University, Europe, health journalism
Last week Gawker asked readers to help it translate an article into Russian from Conde Nast’s GQ, which the publisher reportedly went to great lengths to prevent from being read in Russia, because it contained criticisms of Vladimir Putin.
A full translation of the article has been completed and the process behind it can be read about at this link.
Issues of copyright and press freedom arise from this – Journalism.co.uk will be contacting Gawker to find out more.
Tags: Conde Nast, crowdsourcing, Gawker, GQ, Journalism. co.uk, Russia, Vladimir Putin
Some interesting stats obtained by the Guardian’s own Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the corporation:
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#FollowJourn: Steve Wollaston
Who? Multimedia editor at BPM Media and Sunday Mercury
What? Previously worked as both a computer games reviewer for Sunday Mercury and as multimedia editor at BPM Media.
Where? @stevewollaston and http://www.sundaymercury.net/
Contact? steve.wollaston [at] sundaymercury.net
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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Training: For more details and updates on journalism training courses you can follow Journalism.co.uk’s Twitter account @training_media for news on short training courses for journalists and other media professionals. 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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According to a FleetStreetBlues source, the Sunday Times’ recent advertisement for a news reporter for its forthcoming website received more than 1,200 applicants.
“We hope it won’t discourage the Times- uniquely among the nationals – from continuing to advertise its jobs. It probably will. Who wants to sort through a small forest of CVs?” asks FSB.
Tags: CVs, news reporter, Sunday Times, the Sunday Times, The Times
News Corporation is preparing a new service, NewsCore, which will make news stories and video available to all members of its TV, print and online news network, MediaGuardian reports.
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Initially launched in June this year, non-profit, online-only news site the MinnPost has moved its innovative ‘Real-Time Ads’ system out of beta, according to a post on the site’s blog.
The service aggregates tweets, blog posts and other feeds from local businesses to produce a more timely message to readers.
Eight paying customers have signed up so far and the site is offering a four-week trial to new customers ($25 a week for orders of five weeks or more).
Speaking to Journalism.co.uk in July, CEO and editor of the site, Joel Kramer said 24 beta testers signed up for the beta Real Time Ads within the first fortnight – advertisers who are ‘open to experimentation’.
“Many of those local advertisers weren’t familiar with online yet. They have to educate themselves and we have to teach them,” he adds.
In the video interview with Nieman Journalism Lab below Kramer explains the thinking behind the ad system:
Tags: CEO and editor, joel kramer, Journalism. co.uk, MinnPost, nieman journalism lab, Real-Time ads, us, USD
A new feature has been added to Google News, Spotlight, which (according to a very brief explanation by Google) is :
“(…) section of Google News [that] is updated periodically with news and in-depth pieces of lasting value. These stories, which are automatically selected by our computer algorithms, include investigative journalism, opinion pieces, special-interest articles, and other stories of enduring appeal.”
By looking at both the search engine’s own explanation of Google Spotlight and the selection of stories it has flagged up so far, Nieman Journalism Lab’s Zachary M. Seward suggests, “Spotlight shines on longer features that have bounced around blogs for a few days.”
According to Seward, lifestyle and opinion pieces fare well, while the New York Times is a frequent source. He does see potential for the new section, however, as a way of using people’s online activity to highlight interesting and important material.
[Laura Oliver adds: The usefulness of Spotlight will perhaps be greater for those who use Google News as their first port of call for the day's headlines - but what portion of Google News' users behave in this way (figures welcome) needs to be taken into account.]
Tags: computer algorithms, google, Google News, Google Spotlight, Laura Oliver, nieman journalism lab, online activity, search engine, Spotlight, the New York Times, Zachary M. Seward
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