Seventeen new jobs this week on the Journalism.co.uk jobs board

These are the latest editorial and media job opportunities from this week on Journalism.co.uk’s jobs board:

Account handler (business-to-business)
If you have an editorially-centred skills base, the ability to think both tactically and strategically and you want to develop your career in a journalist-led company, send us your CV. Experience in journalism or PR required.
Salary: Attractive remuneration package DOE (range £30K-£40K) + pension scheme
Garnett Keeler Public Relations
Carshalton, Surrey, England
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City Editor/Chief Reporter
We’re looking for a highly numerate business journalist who can beat the competition (including the nationals) and help The Grocer set the agenda in the fascinating and fast-moving grocery sector.
Salary: DoE
William Reed Business Media
Crawley, United Kingdom
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UI developer
UI Developer full time based at High Street Kensington
Salary: DoE
Metro
London, United Kingdom
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SEO exec
SEO exec full time based in High Street Kensington
Salary: DoE
Metro
London, United Kingdom
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Channel manager
Channel manager full time based in High Street Kensington
Salary: DoE
Metro
London, United Kingdom
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Deputy international editor
An exceptional opportunity for a talented Deputy Editor to join one of the most prestigious and award winning contract publishers with a phenomenal reputation for innovative and stimulating publications.
Salary: £30K and upwards DoE
Formula Won
London, England
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Deputy editor
Deputy editor required for monthly marketing magazine. Role involves writing, editing and managing the whole production process.
Salary: £24K-£28K
Silver Bullet Publishing
London, England
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Managing editor/editor
An experienced editor in B2B publishing is required to work as a freelance managing editor/editor for a retail trade magazine and website in the health sector.
Salary: DoE
Publicom
London, United Kingdom
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Features editor
The Grocer is one of the UK’s top business weeklies, and is going from strength to strength, winning awards, growing subscriptions, doubling web traffic, and constantly developing as a brand.
Salary: DoE
William Reed Business Media
Crawley, United Kingdom
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Reporter
For Dow Jones’ one-person Norway bureau in Oslo. You will be self-motivated with the drive and ability to work independently. Experience of reporting on oil and gas companies is preferred and knowledge of a Scandinavian language is desirable.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones Newswires
Oslo, Norway
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Chief reporter – Local Government Chronicle
A talented chief reporter is needed to produce hard-hitting reports that contribute to the debate around crucial topics for council chief executives and senior local government decision makers.
Salary: DoE
Emap Inform
London, England
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Reporter
US based news magazine and website covering the commercial insurance market seeks an experienced reporter to join its London office.
Salary: £30K+ DOE
Crain Communications Limited
London, United Kingdom
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Freelance writers for online magazine
Suite101.com is a well-established online magazine, that provides expert knowledge and advice to over 24 million monthly readers. Suite101.com is looking to recruit talented new writers to create authoritative articles on any subject.
Salary: DoE
Suite101.com
Telecommute, United Kingdom
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Assistant editor (permanent – full time)
To apply you should have an excellent proven knowledge of UK domestic and international sport, and the ability to use existing technology and adapt to future changes.
Salary: DoE
ESPN.co.uk
London (Hammersmith), England
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Technical Editor – Photography
Technical Editor wanted on ePHOTOzine.com – one of the UK’s leading photography websites. You have a passion for and in-depth knowledge of photography and a desire to meet with the major players within the sector and get your hands on the latest gear.
Salary: DoE
Magezine Publishing Ltd
Worksop, England
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#FollowJourn: @janemartinson/editor

#followjourn: Jane Martinson

Who? Editor of the Guardian’s media supplement and www.guardian.co.uk/media.

What? Martinson was promoted from associate city editor in January 2008.

Where? See her profile page at www.guardian.co.uk/profile/janemartinson

Contact? Follow @janemartinson.

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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Mark Lewis: Libel law’s ‘killing effect’

Mark Lewis, the solicitor-advocate in Manchester who currently represents Dr Peter Wilmshurst (see background here),  has written an excellent piece on the need for libel reform, in the Solicitors’ Journal. “When the law is so bad that it leaves you speechless it needs changing,” he writes.

The law of defamation is expensive to pursue and even dearer to defend. The stress, time and financial cost of a libel case stop people speaking out. Libel law is simple currently: a rich claimant trumps a poor defendant. Newspapers worry about the ‘chilling effect’ of libel – investigative journalism is hampered as a result of lawyers for the press advising their clients to err on the side of caution.

At least it’s not a matter of life or death. Well, it is now. The chilling effect turned into the ‘killing effect’ when claimants realised that a well-drafted claim form is likely to have the effect of silencing an individual who attacks medical products or procedures.

Full story at this link…

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Ofcom revokes Teletext licence

The Teletext goodbyes have already been done, but Ofcom has today revoked the Public Teletext Licence with immediate effect [PDF at this link].

Teletext Limited, which ceased supplying national, international and regional news in December 2009, is now in breach of its public service obligations, so the broadcasting licence has been revoked by the broadcasting regulator. Teletext did not take the remedial steps to comply with the licence.

Ofcom said that Teletext’s subtitling provision and the page 100 index remain unaffected.

In its statement, Ofcom said:

This [ceasing supply of national, international and regional news] is a serious breach of the licence conditions. Teletext Limited was asked for its representations and, following consideration of those representations, the Licence has now been revoked.

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Police visit blogger: a new use of the 1997 Harassment Act?

As noted here earlier this week, blogger Joseph Weissman has been reported to the police for ‘harassment’, after maintaining a website dedicated to scrutinising a Church of England vicar.

Rev Stephen Sizer, of the parish of Virginia Water, lodged a complaint about the site and its author was visited by the West Yorkshire police. The police report states that officers “had a word”, and as a result Weissman “voluntarily removed the blog concerned”.

Rev Sizer is a well-known, published critic of the State of Israel and of “Christian Zionism”. There are legal, religious and political aspects to the story; and related posts are being summarised and collated at Modernity Blog.

This is the short police statement given to Index on Censorship:

As a result of a report of harassment, which was referred to us by Surrey Police, two officers from West Yorkshire Police visited the author of the blog concerned. The feelings of the complainant were relayed to the author who voluntarily removed the blog. No formal action was taken.

Harassment is defined in English Law by the 1997 Protection from Harassment Act :

Harassment of a person includes causing the person alarm or distress; and a course of conduct must involve conduct on at least two occasions.

In a case of ‘harassment via Facebook’ two years ago, Michael Hurst was brought to trial for allegedly contacting his ex-girlfriend Sophie Sladden online, but he was cleared by Magistrates in Birmingham after the prosecution failed to prove the charge.

The definition of harassment above is deliberately wide-ranging, as it was introduced with the main aim of facilitating action in cases of domestic harassment. Is this law being used appropriately?

For the media and for bloggers, a harassment complaint in circumstances where there has been no documented physical threat or alleged ‘stalking’ incident is worrying.

The police have approached the Weissman’s university and spoken to the head of ICT.

Weissman deleted his website without any formal charges being brought, an action which a professional journalist may not have taken without at least obtaining legal advice. As non-professional and independent reporters develop a more significant place in the media, how do we ensure that their position is not compromised, and what responsibilities should they take on in return?

And, finally, is this an acceptable application of the 1997 Harassment Act?

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Director of digital newspaper Factual.es resigns two months after first edition

In a move that caused surprise among the Spanish publishing market, Arcadi Espada, director of the new Factual.es digital newspaper, resigned yesterday only two months after the first edition went live.

Espada was deeply involved in the development of Factual.es, and there are doubts about the future of the newspaper, which was thought of by some as the director’s personal project. His final editorial blames differences between the management strategy and his own perspective on the project for his departure.

“Everyone who invests his money in a business has the right to exert some control over it. In the same way I also have to protect the direction of a journalistic model which I’ve worked on for the last two years. Because of that time, Factual can’t really be considered a brief personal experiment.”

His newsroom deputy Cristina Fallaras followed suit soon after his resignation.

The publication’s management team have announced Juan Carlos Girauta as the new director, and assured staff that it will take into account the efforts of all who worked for the digital newspaper. Changes are already underway however and it seems likely that the majority of the newsroom staff will be laid off in order to accommodate to the new director’s team.

Today staff members were unable to go about their work as usual after login details and passwords were reportedly changed in the administration system. One member of staff said that they were waiting for more information on the situation, and that no one was really in charge: “They asked us to work today and tomorrow but it’s a bit strange, when you know you’re going to be fired, to work in the meantime.”

Factual.es offered readers a different approach to digital layout, and charged for part of their online content with a €50 yearly subscription.

Twenty people currently work for Factual.es across two newsrooms, one in Barcelona and one in Madrid

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Wikileaks temporarily closes due to lack of funds

WikiLeaks.org, the whistleblowing and transparency website, has temporarily shut its site, citing lack of funds. It promises to be “back soon”.

WikiLeaks, part of the Sunshine Press, is calling for donations to support the publication of “hundreds of thousands” of pages from “corrupt banks, the US detainee system, the Iraq war, China, the UN and many others”.

“We have raised just over $130,000 for this year but can not meaningfully continue operations until costs are covered. These amount to just under $200,000 PA. If staff are paid, our yearly budget is $600,000.”

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Guardian names three new Beatbloggers

Yesterday afternoon Guardian News & Media announced its three new beat bloggers, part of the Guardian Local initiative.

The Local project is an “experimental small-scale community approach to local newsgathering,” according to launch editor Sarah Hartley.

Hartley writes:

We had a tremendous response to the advertised positions and, as the Local launch editor, I’m delighted to announce that the project has reached an important milestone, with the appointment of three journalists to take on the new roles in the three cities.

Tom Allan, Hannah Waldram and John Baron have been based at the Guardian’s offices in Kings Place this week to undergo training and will be starting work on their beats of Edinburgh, Cardiff and Leeds respectively from next week. The Local blogs will be launched during the first half of this year although no dates have been confirmed.

I’m thrilled that these talented journalists have joined this exciting new venture at such an important time, and more details will be announced in the coming months.

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Journalism’s future at the Frontline: ‘The snails attacked us!’

“Aagh, it’s the attack of the snails!” is how Kevin Anderson, digital research editor at the Guardian described the news industry’s reaction to revenue destroying online technology – just what were publishers doing in the mid-90s when the web was first growing, he asked.

Anderson, who describes himself as a digital native since the web’s earliest days, joined a panel of fellow digital enthusiasts at the Frontline Club last night to discuss the dreaded ‘future of journalism’ question: RBI’s head of editorial development, Karl Schneider; Peter Kirwan, media columnist; and Ilicco Elia, head of mobile at Reuters Consumer Media.

Kirwan commented how few of the audience actually paid for news. Anderson also played the sceptical card, pointing out how the Guardian was looking to Guardian Professional and events for alternative funding streams.

Anderson also flagged up the potential for social enterprise type start-ups and collaborative working groups, such as ‘newsroom’ cafes in the Czech Republic.

Karl Schneider – who talked about the value of journalism in providing specific business services – said that 60 per cent of RBI’s revenue comes from online. The industry was “too negative” about the scope for digital advertising, he added.

But the most practical tips of the night came from Ilicco Elia, in our breakout groups: if you’ve got a website, build a mobile site. Don’t make it complicated, make it as simple as possible. (If you want pointers,  he’ll no doubt be happy to help point you in the right direction: he’s @ilicco on Twitter.)

The crowd was as good value as the panel, with many of Journalism.co.uk’s favourite media bloggers: organiser Patrick Smith; Adam Tinworth from RBI; Kate Day, head of communities at the Telegraph; Martin Stabe, online editor at Retail Week;  and Jon Slattery… of the Jon Slattery Blog.

Excitingly we also had chance to spot the newbie Guardian beat bloggers (who later headed off for dinner with Guardian Local mentor/boss Sarah Hartley and new  colleague Kevin Anderson): Hannah Waldram (Cardiff); John Baron (Leeds) and Tom Allan (Edinburgh).

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