#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk

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NUJ chapel demands ‘end to the insecurity and uncertainty’ at Express newspaper titles

The NUJ Express Newspapers Chapel today called upon its group editorial director to address its next meeting, in a bid to ‘end to the insecurity and uncertainty that management keeps heaping on staff’.

Express Newspapers includes the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Sunday Star. Its resolution in full, passed unanimously at today’s meeting of the NUJ Express Newspapers Chapel:

“This chapel calls on group editorial director Paul Ashford to address our next chapel meeting.

“We demand answers on the company’s vision of the future for the four titles; a comprehensive plan for their continued editorial functions; information on plans for the company websites and an end to the insecurity and uncertainty that management keeps heaping on staff.

“We do not accept compulsory redundancies and will fight long and hard for anyone being forced out of the company in this way.”

In August, Journalism.co.uk broke the news that Northern & Shell, owners of Express Newspapers and OK! magazine, had announced plans to make 70 journalists at its newspaper titles – Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Sunday Star – redundant.

The latest update was that the company has reduced the overall number of cuts at the newspapers from 90 to 75. This meant the number of journalism jobs cut would be reduced from 70 to between 52 and 57.

Journalism.co.uk will follow up with Express Newspapers tomorrow.

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#BBCQT: BBC Analysis – ‘Who’s afraid of the BNP?’

Food for thought ahead of BNP leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on tonight’s Question Time (#BBCQT if you’re following on Twitter).

If you missed Kenan Malik’s Radio 4 Analysis ‘Who’s Afraid of the BNP’ programme on September 28, you can read the transcript on his website or listen to it again here.

Some provocative material from its selection of contributors. Among them was Nick Griffin, who was challenged on his comments about the Holocaust and his party’s admission procedure.

Views were mixed about Griffin’s invitation onto Question Time. Writer and economist Phillipe Legrain was in support of the BBC’s decision:

“Freedom of expression is not something that you only give to people who you agree with, but, just as importantly, to people who you don’t,” Legrain said.

“Frankly, I think the BNP appearing on Question Time will be fantastic. Nick Griffin is going to get caught out. He’s going to sound stupid, he’s going to sound extremist. That kind of exposure is actually the best way to combat the BNP.”

Full transcript at this link…

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Reflections of a Newsosaur: ‘RIP, news embargoes’

Alan D. Mutter declares news embargoes ‘meaningless and unenforceable’:

“For those unfamiliar with the concept, newsmakers historically distributed press releases, speeches and other documents to the media prior to their official release so journalists had time to read them and prepare stories in advance. The idea was that the story would not be published or aired until the time specified in the embargo.”

Full story at this link…

Related: an upcoming event – ‘Embargo 2010: Industry Conversation on Future Rules of Media Engagement’ with SiliconValleyWatcher’s Tom Foremski, Mike Arrington from Techcrunch and Mark Glazer from NPR’s Media Shift, moderated by Sam Whitmore from Media Survey.

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Independent.co.uk: Government plans for secret inquests

“Plans to introduce secret inquiries into controversial deaths from which the public and bereaved families could be banned are to be pushed through the House of Commons by the Government,” reports the Independent.

“Last night ministers suffered a humiliating defeat for the proposals in the House of Lords, but insisted that they were ‘clear’ that ‘harmful material’ must not be made public, and would reintroduce the measures in the Commons.”

Full story at this link…

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Yahoo News to launch new blog with aim of entering ‘news link economy’

The deputy publisher of the US site TalkingPointsMemo, Andrew Golis, has announced that he will be leaving to launch and run a new blog for Yahoo News.

Writing on his blog yesterday Golis said:

“It will be a combination of curation and original reporting, with gregarious linking and sharp, smart writing. In other words, for the folks who read this site for meta journalism news, I’m going to be building a team to bring the most popular news site in the United States into the news link economy.”

The name is yet to be decided.

Golis’ post at this link…

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Tweets from #Outlook2010: innovation for the newspaper industry

Journalism.co.uk is moderating this week’s Outlook-2010 conference – a joint venture from INMA Europe and the Online Publishers Association (OPA) Europe.

The conference sessions will try to address three key issues: innovation, transformation and making money, and an international line-up.

Courtesy of the event’s blogger Marek Miller there are a series of interviews with speakers from the event at this link.

We’ll be featuring some coverage from the conference (after our duties come to an end), but some tweets from the event are streamed below:

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#polcasm: Policing 2.0 – citizens and social media

Now this is an agenda worth looking at: the NPIA Citizen Focus and Neighbourhood Policing Programme is holding a conference in Coventry (the journalistic place to be in October Journalism.co.uk can vouch) today on ‘Policing 2.0: the citizen and social media’. The introductory document can be found at this link. Among the attendees are hyperlocal pioneers Will Perrin (@willperrin) and Nicky Getgood (@getgood).

Follow tweets here, and Journalism.co.uk will follow up on what was said later:

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Guardian.co.uk: Government to convene senior politicians summit to ‘reinforce’ freedom of the press

The Guardian reports on yesterday’s parliamentary debate on the effect of libel law on reporting Parliament:

“[Justice minister Bridget Prentice] announced that the government would convene a summit of senior politicians to discuss ways to ‘reinforce’ the freedom of the press in reporting parliament and the historic principle of parliamentary privilege.”

(…)

“In the debate today MPs from all parties criticised the issuing ‘super-injunctions’ against the press and their concerns were echoed by Prentice: ‘We are very concerned that they are being used more commonly and particularly in the area of libel and privacy, and the secretary of state for justice [Jack Straw] has already asked senior officials in the department to discuss that matter with lawyers from the newspapers and we are involving the judiciary in a consultation too.’”

• Guardian report at this link…

• The Guardian also live-blogged the event at this link.

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Journalism.co.uk forum poll: Who do you want to edit the NUJ’s Journalist magazine?

The race for the NUJ Journalist editorship has made for a lively week in the Journalism.co.uk forum, not least by candidate Mark Watts’ attack on the NUJ Left section of the union.

All eight contenders have been dutifully answering questions put to them by users. How would have they advised the Daily Mail’s Jan Moir? How will they attract new members? Is there a need for a print version at all? And why should we even care who edits The Journalist?

And now everyone is invited to participate in a open poll in which anyone can vote, anonymously, NUJ member or not. Unlike the real NUJ vote, the results will be decided on a first-past-the-post basis.

The debate will continue right up to the official closing date of November 6.

• Vote in the poll at this link…

• Put your question to the candidates at this link…
  

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