#FollowJourn: @jonathanboyd / financial journalist

#FollowJourn: Jonathan Boyd

Who? Editor-in-chief, Financial Express

What? Editor-in-chief at Financial Express, publishers of Trustnet.com, Trustnet.hk, Trustnetmiddleeast.com, Trustnetoffshore.com and Investegate.co.uk

Where? @jonathanboyd

Contact? @jonathanboyd on Twitter or via Trustnet.com.

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J-school sourcing? CUNY takes over NYTimes.com’s The Local

New York based journalism school CUNY is to take over the New York Times’ Brooklyn blog, The Local.

Now, the daily responsibility for operating the blog covering Fort Greene and Clinton Hill will rest not with Times journalists, but with professors and students at the CUNY program.

More from The Local at this link; more from the New York Times at this link.

Meanwhile, CUNY professor Jeff Jarvis tweeted this, picking up on @xjparker’s comment:

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Mirror.co.uk: Tribute to Sunday Mirror correspondent killed in Afghanistan

The Sunday Mirror’s defence correspondent Rupert Hamer, who had worked for the title for 12 years, was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan on Saturday 9 January.

Photographer Phil Coburn, 43, who was working with Hamer, was also injured in the attack and is in a “serious but stable condition,” the Mirror reported.

Follow this link for the paper’s tribute to Hamer’s work over the years.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – using Facebook for leads

Justin Kings, aka @newsleader, recommends using Facebook to generate fast leads. See Radio 1 Newsbeat’s page for good examples, he says: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/default.stm. Tipster: Judith Townend.

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Eighteen great new media jobs added to Journalism.co.uk this week

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

Editor
DHP are the largest independent publishers of fishing and shooting magazines in Europe. Gun Trade World will be the only B2B gun trade publication and will be mailed monthly to every major gun company in the world.
Salary: To be negotiated
David Hall Publishing Ltd
Daventry, Northants, England
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Senior reporter, Inside Housing
Inside Housing, the weekly magazine for social housing professionals, is looking for a talented reporter to join its award-winning news team.
Salary: DoE
Ocean Media Group
London, United Kingdom
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Sub-editor, Inside Housing
Inside Housing, the award-winning weekly magazine for social housing professionals, is looking to recruit a sub-editor to its busy team.
Salary: DoE
Ocean Media Group
London, United Kingdom
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Deputy features editor, Inside Housing
Inside Housing, the award-winning magazine for social housing professionals, is looking for a deputy features editor to join its busy team.
Salary: DoE
Ocean Media Group
London, United Kingdom
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Digital communications co-ordinator
With experience of creating content and campaigns for websites to take responsibility for the Union’s websites/web presences and use the to effectively market and prmote the Union’s activities and services.
Salary: £21,745 – £23,538 DoE
University Of Central Lancashire Students’ Union
Preston, United Kingdom
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News and feature writer/PR executive
This small but international PR firm with global accounts for multi-billion dollar clients and a bias towards a B2B client base needs a confident, fluent and computer literate writer with great style.
Salary: Negotiable according to experience
SE10
London (central), England
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Researchers
Adfero seeks enthusiastic, talented and news-savvy individuals to join its research team.
Salary: £16K
Adfero
Leeds, England
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Freelance entertainment writer
Freelance entertainment news writers wanted for immediate start at a London-based news agency.
Salary: DoE
London, United Kingdom
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Press and PR officer
The German National Tourist Office, London, has an immediate vacancy for a Press & PR Officer. Application deadline: 15 January 2010 Please send covering letter and CV to application-london@d-z-t.com
Salary: DoE
GNTO-London
London, United Kingdom
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Advertising sales manager – Bloomberg Business Week
Bloomberg BusinessWeek is a global source of essential business insight that inspires leaders to turn ideas into action.
Salary: Competitive + benefits
Bloomberg
City of London, England, England
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PR writer/account executive
Start a new career as a PR writer / account executive with a small exciting PR agency run by a former journalist in Northamptonshire
Salary: Up to £24K
Publicity Heaven
Near Rushden, Northamptonshire NN29 7EX, England
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Freelancers
Adfero’s ConsumerNews division are currenty offering a number of internships within politics, travels and economics.
Salary: Unpaid
Adfero
London (Canary Wharf), England
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Spanish freelancer
Adfero, a leading online news agency, is looking for freelance writer who is fluent in Spanish.
Salary: £8 per hour
Adfero
Freelance, United Kingdom
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Project manager (communications)
This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join this well established healthcare communications agency based in the heart of London.
Salary: £30K-£33K + exc bens.
Formula Won
London, United Kingdom
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Correspondent (permanent, full-time)
An experienced media and technology journalist is needed to cover how digital media are reshaping the economics of content in areas from news publishing and magazines, to TV, video-on-demand, sport and entertainment, gaming and piracy.
Salary: DoE
paidContent:UK
London, England
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Market reporter (fixed term contract)
A market reporter is needed to cover European petrochemicals on a fixed-term contract for this leading provider of energy and metals information.
Salary: DoE
Platts
London, England
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Staff writer
Pageant Media has an excellent opportunity for a first jobber
Salary: DoE
Pageant Media
London, England
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Next step news delivery – Sky News’ TV widget

Sky News feeds will be built in to viewers’ TV sets thanks to a new development from Yahoo and Samsung.

The Sky News TV widget, developed by the Yahoo Widget Engine, will be available on internet-connected TVs from Samsung. Selecting the TV widget will add a menu of the latest headlines and news stories from Sky to the programme being watched:

The widget will be available in just the UK from later this month. It will feature top stories, UK news, politics, sport, business, world news and showbiz news as channels and will be free to use with no requirement to subscribe to a Sky TV package.

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@Documentally: The ultimate journalistic recording tool?

‘Freelance mobile media maker’ Christian Payne (aka @documentally) discusses the multimedia benefits, and potential for journalists, of his new Lumix GH1 hybrid digital camera (with video and audio) in this AudioBoo recording:

Watch out for Christian Payne at our news:rewired event next week.

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Big Journalism takes on big challenge

Big Journalism is staking the claim that media is now at war with one another: Big Media versus Small Media; Old Media versus New Media; Left Media vs Right Media. You get the picture.

So writes the founder of new website Big Journalism, Andrew Breitbart, primary developer on the Huffington Post and publisher of a series of online news sites.

“If the media isn’t going to take the large clues of losing subscribers, dwindling viewers, thriving alternatives – perhaps something more aggressive will instigate a change for the better,” he adds.

“Even if you’re one of those awful, biased old-media types we seek to destroy, welcome to Big Journalism, where the spirit of free inquiry lives on.”

Just a few days old the site, which has a US focus at present, says it will take on journalism, reporters and bloggers alike in a “metaphorical war” against “pure hackery and media bias”.

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Snow news day

I have just received an invite to the “BBC News, stop talking about SNOW!” Facebook group. It looks like some people think the BBC has taken Frozen Britain a little too far. The blurb:

We have BBC News 24 on in our media office every day. My colleagues and I are slowly losing the will to live, due to the BBC’s constant coverage of the weather. We, surprisingly, are aware it has been snowing. We are also very much aware it is cold. But we don’t need to see people of varying ages from a range of people around the UK talking about how cold it is, and how much they enjoy having a day of school. Or, for that matter, people texting in telling us how cold/snowy/inconvenient the weather is. We are very much aware. There are only so more pictures of snow in different places in the country that we can take. We’re now turning over to Sky News.

The alternative latest news from the group?

It’s still snowing in parts of the UK. It’s cold. Some kids are off school, some adults are off work. Some people have made snowmen. Some roads have been gritted. Some haven’t.

Facebook group at this link…

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Top five UK journalism blogs and Tweeters in 2009 (and who to watch in 2010)

With the proviso that journalism blogs and bloggers come and go, we have selected our own personal favourite journalism bloggers and tweeters. These are our absolute must-reads. We realise this is a somewhat subjective exercise, so please add your own in the comments below, or via Twitter to @journalismnews.

Top five UK journalism blogs and Tweeters of 2009

As chosen by John Thompson, founder, Journalism.co.uk:

Best to follow on Twitter:
@GordonMacmillan, @malcolmcoles, @adamwestbrook, @paulbradshaw, @mikebutcher, @marcreeves

Best blogs:
Malcolm Coles,  Jon Slattery, Adam Tinworth, OJB, Adam Westbrook (pictured below, left to right)

As chosen by Laura Oliver, editor, Journalism.co.uk:

Best to follow on Twitter:
@georgehopkin, @nigelbarlow, @MrRickWaghorn, @gordonmacmillan, @psmith

Best blogs:
Sarah Hartley, Alison Gow, Adam Tinworth, Martin Belam, Jon Slattery (pictured below, left to right)

As chosen by Judith Townend, senior reporter, Journalism.co.uk:

Best to follow on Twitter:
@gingerelvis, @samshepherd, @badjournalism, @jowadsworth, @digidickinson

Best blogs:
Jon Slattery, Martin Moore, Charlie Beckett, The Media Blog, Sarah Hartley (pictured below, left to right)

As chosen by the Journalism.co.uk team:

Five blogs to watch in 2010

• The Media Blog: Fairly new on the blogging scene and quick off the mark.

• Psmithjournalist.com: the former paidContent reporter has gone freelance. Watch this site.

• Angry People in Local Newspapers: very funny and simply done.

• Marc Reeves: former Birmingham Post editor, with new projects on the go.

• Hannah Waldram: recently trained at Cardiff; experimenting with hyperlocal news and online technology.

Five Tweeters to watch in 2010

• @timesjoanna, for her excellent social media and online journalism links.

• @michaelhaddon, former City student with an interest in political online media; now working at Dow Jones.

• @joshhalliday, at the centre of the UK student journalist blogging conversation; lots to look at on his own blog.

• @coneee, the NUJ’s first full-time blogger member, currently completing an MA at City University.

• @marcreeves, for the latest on what the former regional editor is up to.

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