Twelve new journalism and media jobs this week on Journalism.co.uk

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

Online content producer – cars
With experience of writing for online and working to daily deadlines, subject expertise in cars and an ability to turn complex technical copy into an online story that answers key consumer questions for Which?
Salary: £25K-£37K
Which?
London, England
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Online content producer (full-time contract – six months)
With experience writing for online and working to daily deadlines, expertise in home products and the ability to turn complex technical copy into an online story that answers key consumer questions for Which?
Salary: £25K-£37K
Which?
London, England
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Production editor
Inside Housing, the award-winning weekly magazine for the social housing sector, is looking for a talented production editor to lead its busy production desk.
Salary: DoE
Ocean Media Group
London, United Kingdom
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Bonds / FX Editor – London
Bloomberg News is seeking an experienced editor in London to cover government bonds, currencies and money markets. The successful candidate will join a team of 10 reporters and editors.
Salary: competitive + benefits
Bloomberg
City of London, England
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Graphic designer
A graphic designer is needed to join the team at Financial News, Europe’s leading weekly newspaper for securities and the investment banking industry.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones European Consumer Media Group
London, All
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International business journalist
International business journalists researching data, conducting face-to-face interviews with global business executives and writing comprehensive and authoritative energy reports.
Salary: DoE
Wildcat Publishing
Istanbul, Rest of World
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Reporter
An energetic and ambitious reporter covering the global infrastructure investment industry, writing news, features and commentary about all aspects of financing, developing, operating and investing in infrastructure assets around the world.
Salary: DoE
PEI Media
London, England
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Entertainment journalist
Vibrant, talented reporter with local newspaper or agency experience and a passion for showbiz and news gathering needed to join this worldwide leader in supplying showbiz news and features around the globe to print, internet and broadcast media.
Salary: DoE
Bang Media International
London, England
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Video journalist
Freelance video journalist positions sought to join global new agency’s fast-growing international television service. Required: at least two years’ experience in hard news and newsmagazine journalism, digital video editing skills, excellent French.
Salary: DoE
Agence France Presse
London, England
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Staff writer
A journalist with an interest in and understanding of information technology in business is needed to join the team at Information Age, writing news content for the website and features and analysis for the monthly magazine.
Salary: £23K
Vitesse Media
London, England
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Senior medical writer
We are looking for an experienced senior medical writer with experience in a medical communications agency environment – Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Salary: DoE
Succinct Communications Ltd
Amersham, United Kingdom
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International ecomony editor
The successful candidate will commission, edit and write analysis on the global economy for publication in the Oxford Analytica Daily Brief.
Salary: DoE
Oxford Analytica
Oxford, England
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#Outlook2010: Lauren Rich Fine on media’s future – ‘Is there too much news?’

Last week Journalism.co.uk attended the INMA and Online Publishers Association (OPA) Europe’s annual conference Outlook 2010 – the event focused on innovation, transformation and making money for media businesses. Follow our coverage at this link.

Former ContentNext research director and media analyst Lauren Rich Fine opened her conference presentation with a potentially ‘heretical’ question: “Is it possible that there’s too much news?”

Fine’s overview of the state of the media industry (focusing on the US market) and her ideas for a more collaborative, cooperative future can be listened to in full below:

Here are some key quotes:

On content:

• “I would suggest to you that there might be too much content, that we need to see rampant consolidation, that it’s not just going to be in the newspaper industry (…) it has to be everywhere.”

On the newspaper industry:

• “The newspaper industry has been very bad at being optimistic about its future, the newspaper industry has been really bad at marketing itself (and TV and radio are even more off-base).”

On advertising:

• “Classified advertising is permanently exiting newspapers – and it should, it works better online.”
• “If classified advertising continues to fall by the wayside this could be an industry operating with no margin.”

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#Outlook2010: Germany’s WAZ media – learning from bigger players and going open source

Last week Journalism.co.uk attended the INMA and Online Publishers Association (OPA) Europe’s annual conference Outlook 2010 – the event focused on innovation, transformation and making money for media businesses. Follow our coverage at this link.

Regional newspaper WAZ Media has learned to punch above its weight online by looking at what bigger publishers are doing digitally and seeking out free and open source software and platforms to use, explains the outgoing CEO of its new media Katharina Borchert.

Starting with video the group supplied reporters with Flip cameras to capture original video news and began using a bank of freelancers to edit the footage.

The group has also joined forces with another regional publisher to create The Media Lab – a small company that invests at a really early stage in local online start-ups that add something interesting to the market, explains Borchert.

This has already spawned an online-to-print publishing solution for printed user-generated papers in areas not covered by WAZ’s titles – after a year-and-a-half the group expects this project to be in profit by next year.

Listen to Borchert’s talk on video, Twitter and regional media innovation online below:

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#Outlook2010: LePost.fr – horizontal, not vertical, news

Last week Journalism.co.uk attended the INMA and Online Publishers Association (OPA) Europe’s annual conference Outlook 2010 – the event focused on innovation, transformation and making money for media businesses. Follow our coverage at this link.

Two years since its launch user-generated site LePost.fr – launched by Le Monde – attracts 2.5 million unique users a month (not a lot less than Le Monde’s online efforts at 3.5 million).

A team of six specialised journalists, two editors, one videojournalist and one investigative journalist are responsible for producing around 10 per cent of the site’s content – the rest is down to the users, who produce around 500 posts a day. It’s an integration of professional and amateur news – with teams of amateurs ‘coached’ by professionals, says the team.

More from LePost on how the site operates in the audio below:

“Our idea was to put a newsroom at the most dynamic part of the web (…) social media,” the site’s editor-in-chief, Benoit Raphael, says.

“We believe that people are no longer satisfied with vertical news. Traditional journalists choose and produce stories and deliver them to readers. In a networked media like LePost we let people co-choose and co-produce stories.”

Raphael says LePost produces ‘horizontal news’ – news to be shared, commented upon and added to.

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Is World Journalism in Crisis? The podcasts

Missed this week’s video conference from Coventry University featuring journalism speakers from the world? No fear: it’s all available for your leisurely enjoyment:

http://coventryuniversity.podbean.com/category/art-design-media/coventry-conversations/

• Professor Adrian Monck, World Economic Forum, former head of journalism, City University
• Dr George Nyabuga, managing editor of media convergence, Standard Media Group
• Jeremy Paxman, BBC Newsnight
• Nick Davies, author of ‘Flat Earth News’
• Jeff Jarvis, professor of journalism, City University New York
• Professor Tim Luckhurst, University of Kent
• Professor Richard Keeble, Lincoln University
• Dr Fred Mudhai, Coventry University
• Judith Townend, Journalism.co.uk
• Dr Suzanne Franks, University of Kent

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#Outlook2010: There’s a business opportunity in e-readers, says NYTimes circulation VP

Last week Journalism.co.uk attended the INMA and Online Publishers Association (OPA) Europe’s annual conference Outlook 2010 – the event focused on innovation, transformation and making money for media businesses. Follow our coverage at this link.

“There’s a real opportunity for paid electronic products,” Yasmin Namini, senior vice president of circulation at the New York Times, told delegates last week.

Namini was specifically referring to the NYTimes’ experience in this area – the paper created a unique ‘bundled’ offering with Amazon’s Kindle. The NYTimes Kindle offer at $499-a-year was the latest version of the e-reader (the DX), in a NYTimes branded leather wallet and came with a year’s subscription to the paper’s Kindle edition.

Sounds like a hefty price tag – but to buy a Kindle DX is $489 and it’s £168 for a one-year NYTimes subscription on the device.

“We wanted to test our capabilities to sell a device and a subscription as a bundle,” explains Namini.

The deal was launched as a test at the end of September and nearly every available NYTimes-Kindle has been sold. Furthermore the offer was only marketed (via an e-mail campaign) to expired subscribers to the print edition and potential readers outside of print home-delivery routes. The first sale was made within 10 minutes of the e-mails being sent out, adds Namini.

Similar trials have also been run by the Washington Post and the Boston Globe, according to a release from Amazon.

Some caveats from Namini to publishers looking to launch similar packages – publishers should:

• Maintain the billing relationship with the customer
• Determine the pricepoint for customer
• Have access to customer data

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#Outlook2010: Don’t forget your print subscribers, says Associated Newspapers

Last week Journalism.co.uk attended the INMA and Online Publishers Association (OPA) Europe’s annual conference Outlook 2010 – the event focused on innovation, transformation and making money for media businesses. Follow our coverage at this link.

As the news media searches for viable business models for online and new revenue streams in the form of pay walls, members clubs and micropayments, the humble print newspaper subscriber may have been overlooked.

Such was the argument of Associated Newspapers’ circulation director Neil Jagger who explained to delegates how his group targeted home delivery (‘not the sexiest beast in the world’) as a revenue source.

At the start of this drive, there were around 2 million home delivery customers for UK newspapers – with the Daily Mail accounting for around 500,000 of those, explained Jagger.

Using a retail sales force of 30, Associated built up a 1.3 million-strong database of addresses  of newspaper subscribers not signed up with the Daily Mail by approaching retailers directly for the information.

These 1.3 million were sent a direct mail offering a range of subscription packages and vouchers if they signed up. The result was a 2 per cent take up (27,000 agreed to have the paper home delivered).

Not satisfied with this the team moved onto telesales offering the same package as the direct mail, which had a 7 per cent conversion rate (59,000 signed up).

Finally, Associated is using 200 canvassers selling home delivery subscriptions door-to-door and has so far generated 70,000 sign for an initial three-month period.

Following this push the Daily Mail has gained 156,000 new customers, says Jagger – an opportunity created by building this database of non-subscribers, using available information in a way that other publishers had not done previously.

Not all of the new recipients have stayed with the paper, admits Jagger, but, from the 156,000, 81 per cent are staying for 6 months after initially agreeing; while 64 per cent are staying 18 months or more.

“Once we’ve got these customers we’ve got to keep them,” explains Jagger and customers are sent loyalty packs, alternative subscription offers or money-off vouchers.

“We just don’t want to lose those customers.”

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#Outlook2010: A flipbook design for newspapers?

Last week Journalism.co.uk attended the INMA and Online Publishers Association (OPA) Europe’s annual conference Outlook 2010 – the event focused on innovation, transformation and making money for media businesses. Follow our coverage at this link.

Focusing on the future of print media doesn’t necessarily mean abandoning your print product, but instead looking at what it does best and ways it can be improved – the views of several speakers at last week’s event.

But this doesn’t mean print is sacred – innovation for survival can also mean a drastic rethink of what we expect from a newspaper, even in terms of how its read.

Enter: Peter Bluijs, former newspaperman with Holland’s De Telegraaf, who is looking at the idea of the vertical newspaper:

(Video filmed by Marcin Nowak and Artur Karda from Media Regionalne, Poland)

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The Star: ‘Locked-out’ Canadian journalists lead scandal coverage

What do you do when you’re locked out from your own paper? Set up a website of course and investigate the allegations and goings-on behind the stand-off.

Such is the story of Canadian website Ruefrontenac.com, the work of 253 employees  from Quebec newspaper Journal de Montreal who have been ‘locked out’ by their employer Quebecor following dispute over jobs and working hours between the publisher and the union.

“Ruefrontenac.com has set up in an old dance studio overlooking the Journal’s parking lot.

“The journalists choose their own topics to write about without having to consider corporate interests, Bousquet [Richard Bousquet, the website's co-ordinator] said. ‘It’s a bit of a journalistic experiment.’

“Journalists divide their time producing content and picketing.”

Full story at this link…

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Big Brother Watch: How an investigative journalist lost his job because of the UK’s libel system

Fascinating post from journalist Willard Foxton, until recently in charge of investigative title Chambers Report, on how the threat of libel caused him to lose his job.

Foxton ran a story on a Middle East branch of a British law firm, whose expansion had gone ‘catastrophically’ wrong. Despite countless interviews, multiple sources and an acceptance of truth from the firm, the title was still issued with a writ by the individual at the centre of the story – the only person Foxton had not asked if it was true (as part of the Reynolds defence) for fear of an injunction against publication.

“[I]n this case, the evidence was so strong (right down to senior people referring off the record to this individual as ‘the worst person we have ever hired’), I felt totally confident that we were safe,” writes Foxton.

“I was wrong. Really, really quite wrong.”

The cost of defending the legal action – and the potential cost of losing – were too much for the publisher: the magazine was closed and Foxton fired.

“It’s not just the publisher who could get sued either – because of the state of our libel laws, our distributors, our internet host, everyone even connected to us or the toxic-but-true article could be sued.

“He [my employer] sat me down in his office, told me he respected me as a journalist – respected me so much, in fact that he wants me to keep writing for his publishing firm – but said that libel scared him far too much to take risks.

“So there you go. A rich man in the emirates launches a libel writ against a UK publication for writing true things, and the publication gets shut down. I lost my job; the journalist who wrote the story received a written warning about his conduct. Why? Because we uncovered and exposed the truth.”

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