Kristine Lowe: Norwegian magazine journalists face page quotas

Kristine Lowe has details of how Norwegian magazine group Hjemmet Mortensen is bringing in a new measure of its journalists’ productivity: journalists and subs will each be expected to produce at least six pages of editorial content per week.

Full post at this link…

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#newsrw: Win a Flip Ultra HD camcorder

To spread the word even further about our forthcoming digital journalism event news:rewired on 14 January 2010, we are enlisting the help of the Twitter army and offering you the chance to win a brand new Flip Ultra HD pocket camcorder, just in time for Christmas!

The entry requirement is simple, all you have to do is follow @newsrewired and tweet or re-tweet the following:

Come to #newsrw digital #journalism event 14:1:10. Follow @newsrewired & RT for chance to #win FlipHD http://is.gd/58NY8

The competition will close on Friday 18 December 2009 at 13:00 GMT and the winner will be selected at random and announced shortly after.

Full details of news:rewired are on www.newsrewired.com, but a quick summary: this is a one-day event for journalists looking to up their digital game and for trainers and new recruits hoping to stay one step ahead of the industry.

We’ll be offering practical sessions on videojournalism, using social media and data, and working in partnerships – all from the perspective of a journalist or publisher in the field.

We’ll also be discussing where the potential for making money to support digital and new forms of journalism is.

Tickets are £80 + VAT and can be purchased here. Contact us on laura [at] journalism.co.uk for more details.

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#aopforum: Live coverage on microlocal media discussion

UPDATE – the liveblogs seem to have stalled – we spoke too soon, so below is a tweetstream from the event so far featuring Guardian local launch editor, Sarah Hartley; Birmingham City University senior lecturer, Paul Bradshaw; and Trinity Mirror head of multimedia, David Higgerson:

For those of us unable to attend today’s Association of Online Publishers (AOP) forum on microlocal media (hyperlocal/ultralocal/local – whatever you want to call it), we’re lucky to have the liveblogging skills of journalist Caroline Beavon, who will be covering the sessions as they happen from 2:30pm.

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Editors Weblog: Dutch government to finance 60 jobs for young journalists

The Dutch government is to finance a €4 million plan to support 60 young journalists across 30 press titles in the country.

The scheme will offer two-year contracts to young journalists (though an age range is not specified in the report) to encourage a new generation of journalists and innovation in the industry.

The contracts will be made with publishers and not the government; and the scheme will not result in job cuts amongst older journalists, the report says.

Full story at this link…

(Original report in French at Media Trends)

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#FollowJourn: @sjanebaker/personal finance writer

#FollowJourn: Jane Baker

Who? Personal finance writer.

What? Works for Lovemoney.com covering all aspects of personal finance, but specialising in life insurance and pensions.

Where? You can read Jane’s work on lovemoney.com and her blog posts here.

Contact? She’s @sjanebaker on Twitter.

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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MediaGuardian: DMGT records second highest ever profit

Interesting to note amidst a backdrop of job cuts and industry crisis talks that the newspaper industry is still a business – and sometimes still a big money one.

In its annual report released yesterday, publishing group Daily Mail & General Trust announced an operating profit for 2009 of £278 million.

The group’s businesses now make up 73 per cent (£203 million) of this operating profit, with newspaper publishing only accounting for 27 per cent (£75 million). Compare this to 1996 when DMGT’s newspapers made up 86 per cent of this figure.

“My father made a decision some 15 years ago to diversify the group away from the UK newspaper market into other media less dependent on newspapers, advertising and the UK. Given what has happened in the last year, that decision has proved to have been inspired. From next to nothing then, our B2B businesses have this year contributed nearly three quarters of the group’s profit, with over 60 per cent of our profits coming from outside the UK. While some of the diversification has been more successful than others, in total it has been a well executed expansion, largely into the United States, graveyard of so many UK company expansion plans,” said group chairman Viscount Rothermere in a statement.

Full story at this link…

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – organising online campaigns

Campaigns: Organising an online campaign? Look to one of the most impressive of all time, the one that won Obama the US presidential election. Here’s a slideshow presentation by political columnist Ari Melber at this link. Tipster: Judith Townend.

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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The Next Web: Guardian to integrate with Facebook Connect

UPDATE (14/12/09): I’ve been told by the Guardian that while its clippings service is integrated with Facebook Connect, it isn’t planning to spread this throughout the site. The site’s principles are Open Web and so wouldn’t align itself with just one provider, the Guardian said.

From last week, but an interesting development: Facebook has announced that the Guardian will soon integrate Facebook Connect across its site.

Facebook Connect lets users of the social network bring their Facebook profile and connections to any site or application. For example, integration with Facebook Connect on the Guardian could mean a user logging in with their Facebook username and password to add a comment to an article; this comment would then also appear on the Facebook news feed.

This move could also give the Guardian valuable insight into users’ behaviour and profiles.

“The Guardian Jobs third party databases were hacked back in October and it would be great to see the newspaper using this as an opportunity to use Facebook Connect for this and other services instead of just commenting,” writes the Next Web.

Full story at this link…

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Guardian Careers: Insight into being a video producer

The Guardian Careers’ section has an interview with Rebecca Lovell, video producer for the Guardian, about her career and her work with the BBC.

The audio can be downloaded at this link.

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Allvoices signs syndication deal with WENN

Following the launch of its syndication scheme in October, citizen journalism site Allvoices has signed a deal with WENN (World Entertainment and News Network), which provides images, videos and other entertainment news to more than 1,000 partners.

WENN will now have exclusive syndication rights to all entertainment-related content uploaded by Allvoices’ users and allow its partners to buy up Allvoices’ work, a press release said.

WENN will split the proceeds of any sale with Allvoices, which will then split its take with the original creator – 75 per cent of the money for non-exclusive and exclusive images and video content, according to our interview with CEO Aki Hashmi in October.

“Partners using the Allvoices platform have options for sourcing content: either through a direct sale; or using Allvoices’ widgets which lets partners pick and present specific stories and automated feeds for their sites on just about any subject, from anywhere in the world. Partners have complete control over the content that appears on their sites, and many have already put the Allvoices tools to work, adding local knowledge and expertise that enhances and adds depth to their own staff’s reporting, photography and video,” the release explained.

Last month Allvoices announced it would recruit and pay professional journalists to contribute to its website. As part of the Provoices scheme, journalists will be paid up to $250 (around £150) a story and more for ‘high-traffic’ items.

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