#FollowJourn: @salihughes/freelance writer and editor

#FollowJourn: Sali Hughes

Who? Freelance writer and editor. She previously worked as a features director and deputy editor.

What? Focuses on celebrity interviews, style and fashion features, women’s issues and lifestyle writing and has won two awards for beauty writing.

Where? On Twitter @salihughes or on her website and blog.

Contact? Email sali [at] salihughes.com.

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#soe09: Following the Society of Editors conference 2009

Journalism.co.uk is covering this year’s Society of Editors conference, featuring speakers including:

• Media analyst Claire Enders
• Independent editor Roger Alton
• Google UK’s Matt Brittin

There will be audio from the conference and speeches available on the Society’s website:

• Audio
• Speeches

A liveblog of the two-day event is below:

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – background sound for videos

Videojournalism: Don’t forget to record natural sound when making a video. It will give you additional audio and images that can be useful when putting together a package. 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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#soe09: Baroness Buscombe’s Society of Editors speech in full

The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) does not need to come under statutory control, Baroness Peta Buscombe said in a speech to the annual Society of Editors conference tonight.

Read Journalism.co.uk’s full report or read her speech below:

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Video: Simon Singh on libel tourism and the ‘chilling effect’ on science journalism

Simon Singh, the science writer facing a libel action brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association, attended this week’s launch of the Index on Censorship (IOC) and English Pen’s proposed libel bill.

In this short video he talks about the current case of cardiologist Peter Wilmshurst (something Journalism.co.uk is looking into) and the chilling effect of libel on science writing:

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PCC calls for submissions to governance review

The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has opened the doors to its governance review, announced in August.

The review, which will be conducted by an independent panel, will look at the commission’s:

• Board structure
• Appointments commission
• Accountability
• Transparency
• Constitution

The closing date for submissions, which can be made in writing to governancereview [at] pcc.org.uk, is 25 January 2010.

The PCC has been heavily criticised this week for its conclusions in its inquiry into phone hacking allegations at News Group Newspapers. Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said the commission after its report, which said there was no evidence to support allegations of ongoing phone hacking at the News of the World despite last summer’s Guardian reports, was ‘worse than pointless’; while Geoffrey Robertson QC suggested that editors ‘with any integrity’ would withdraw from the code committee.

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Sun apologises for spelling Jacqui Janes’ name wrong…

A fantastic spot from Michael Acton Smith after the Sun’s criticism of PM Gordon Brown this week for misspelling the name of killed Guardsman Jamie Janes in a letter to his mother, which included the paper publishing a transcript of a phonecall between Brown and Jacqui Janes.

(Hat tip to @joe on Twitter for sharing the link)

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Freek Bijl: What would Apple do with publishing?

As we debate pay walls, micropayments, mobile apps and business models, it’s worth looking to other industries for inspiration – exactly what Freek Bijl, an internet strategist, has done in this excellent slideshow:

(Hat tip to @arjanelfassed)

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Guardian Letters: GMG, Coventry Telegraph and Cumberland news respond to Monbiot on local press

Les Reid, political correspondent for the Coventry Evening Telegraph; Mark Dodson, CEO of Guardian Media Group’s regional media division; and Neil Hodgkinson, Cumberland News and News & Star editor, have responded passionately to George Monbiot’s criticism of the UK’s local press earlier this week.

In his Comment is Free piece entitled ‘I, too, mourn good local newspapers. But this lot just aren’t worth saving‘, Monbiot said:

“For many years the local press has been one of Britain’s most potent threats to democracy, championing the overdog, misrepresenting democratic choices, defending business, the police and local elites from those who seek to challenge them. Media commentators lament the death of what might have been. It bears no relationship to what is.”

“They [local newspapers] continually uncover stories that need to be told. They campaign for and champion the underdog with a tenacity that would shame many in the national press. Their community relevance is what keeps local titles alive,” writes Dodson in response.

“In Greater Manchester our journalists stand up in court at least three times a week attempting to have reporting restrictions lifted so that stories can be told in full. I know that other regional press publishers share our commitment to real local reporting.”

Full letters at this link…

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Josh Halliday: David Banks on thinking beyond the pay wall

Josh Halliday digests former Daily Mirror editor David Banks’ thoughts on bloggers, pay walls and ‘aggregationists’, given in a guest lecture to Sunderland University students.

Weighing in on the pay wall debate, Banks had some strong views – the choicest quote being:

“Everybody talks about paying to break through the paywall, I don’t know anyone who quite knows how Rupert plans to do this. Nobody talks about it, they just say ‘Oh yeah, well if Rupert says it then it’ll work’.”

Full post at this link…

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