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#followjourn: Matthew Wall/freelance

March 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted by Joel Gunter in Recommended journalists

#followjourn: Matthew Wall

Who? Wall a freelance journalist, as well as author of several books and published poet. Wall has worked on a freelance basis for the Times, Sky Money and Interactive Investor, among others.

Where? He has a comprehensive website at www.matthewwall.typepad.com and a LinkedIn page.

Contact? Follow Matthew Wall on Twitter at www.twitter.com/matthew_wall.

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.

Mr Justice Eady speech in full

March 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted by Judith Townend in Events, Journalism

To the surprise of some, it was Mr Justice Eady who took the platform for a speech on freedom of expression in the context of human rights law last night, to mark the launch of City University London’s new centre for Law, Justice and Journalism.

Read Journalism.co.uk’s report from the evening at this link

The high court judge is known for his judgements that led to big media payouts to Max Mosley, Madonna and Tiger Woods for breaches of privacy, and for the many libel cases over which he has presided. In a speech in 2008, the Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre said that Eady was bringing in a “privacy law by the back door.”

We have uploaded Eady’s speech in full, below:

Justice Eady Speech – City University London – March 2010

Tags: centre for law, city university london, justice and journalism, mr justice eady, Paul Dacre

HTFP: Wales on Sunday pays BNP for copyright breach

March 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Legal

Trinity Mirror has made an out-of-court settlement with the British National Party after a breach of copyright in an article published last November.

The piece included a picture of BNP West Wales party organiser Roger Phillips, taken by a party official, which the BNP said was taken from Facebook without permission.

Full story at this link…

Tags: BNP, Copyright, Facebook, Roger Phillips, Trinity Mirror, Wales on Sunday

#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – making multimedia packages

March 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Top tips for journalists

Multimedia: When it comes to building multimedia packages, the FT is a leader in its field. You can find them all grouped 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.

Tags: Financial Times, ft, multimedia

eMedia Vitals: ‘The evolution of the editor, 1982-2010′

March 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Jobs, Journalism

Newsrooms that once functioned under a cloud of cigarette smoke now work in a cloud computing environment. Writers who once tucked a reporter’s notebook in their back pocket now wield a digital voice recorder or a Flip camcorder. Editors who once red-lined copy and haggled over how headlines matched the lead art now stress over web analytics and keyword selection.

eMedia Vitals’ Rob O’Regan, who has close to 30 years experience as a journalist, has created a chronology of the journalism roles he has undertaken, the skills developed, the performance indicators and the tools required – from 1982-3 as a cub reporter, armed with a reporter’s notebook and an ashtray through his time as a news editor in 1994-6, where the newsroom’s Toshiba T1000 notebook had to be signed out for road trips.

Full post at this link…

Tags: eMedia Vitals

Telegraph.co.uk: The British Journal of Photography – 156 years in pictures

March 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Magazines, Photography

To mark its recent redesign and return as a monthly publication, the Telegraph has a slideshow of past covers and pages from the British Journal of Photography.

Full slideshow at this link…

Tags: bjp, british journal of photography

Video from Beet.tv: How Reuters used social media in Iran to source video

March 10th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Citizen journalism, Social media and blogging

Earlier this week Reuters’ global editor Greg Beitchman told an industry debate on the future of video that the agency wants to make more of its raw film footage available to clients.

Speaking to Beet.tv in the video below, Beitchman explains how Reuters used social media, particularly Twitter, to source raw video footage from Iran during its coverage of the post-election protests:

Tags: Greg Beitchman, Iran, reuters, Twitter, Video

Blogger to pursue legal action over Independent on Sunday headline

March 10th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Journalism, Legal, Newspapers, Social media and blogging

Last Sunday, writer and author Zoe Margolis was shocked to discover that the headline on her own opinion piece about the portrayal of women in the media for the Independent on Sunday, wrongly described her as a prostitute.

The headline was changed for later editions of the paper. An online version of the headline has now been changed to ‘I’m a good-time girl who became an agony aunt’, with the same article. The original version remained live on the mobile site for some time, before being removed.

Margolis now intends to pursue legal action, her spokesperson confirmed to Journalism.co.uk.

“Zoe has never worked in the sex industry and has worked hard to establish her writing as something distinct to it.”

Margolis said: “I’m absolutely distraught by this damage to my reputation both professionally and personally. Unfortunately this situation just shows how much work still needs to be done to challenge the sexism of the media in their conflation of female sexual desire with the sex industry.”

Margolis, keeps a successful blog about her sex life, originally anonymously as Abby Lee, and then under her real name once she was exposed by the Sunday Times in 2006. Her second book was published this week.

Her spokesperson said that the incident had revealed an “undercurrent of sexism”. It illustrated the very point that Margolis was trying to make, she said: “that if you are a woman, writing about sex openly, it is very likely you will be labelled with negative terminology”.

“Zoe believes women are chastised or labelled for expressing their sexual desires and that this needs to be opposed.”

Twitter users following Margolis on Sunday were shocked by the headline, particularly ahead of a week used to mark women’s rights, International Women’s Day (IWD).

“The eve of IWD & @girlonetrack is subject of vile SIndy h/lines for a positive piece on writing on sexuality & feminism,” tweeted @emmagillan.

The Independent on Sunday did not wish to comment at this stage.

Tags: Abby Lee, International Women's Day, the independent on sunday, the Sunday Times, zoe margolis

Could Iceland’s journalism haven create a ‘ripple effect’?

March 10th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Journalism, Legal, Press freedom and ethics

Al Jazeera English’s Listening Post has an excellent film about the new Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI) proposal, which, if successful, could make Iceland an investigative journalism haven.

Read more about IMMI here: http://immi.is/?l=en: “The goal of the IMMI proposal is to task the government with finding ways to strengthen freedom of expression around world and in Iceland, as well as providing strong protections for sources and whistleblowers. To this end the legal environment should be explored in such a way that the goals can be defined, and changes to law or new law proposals can be prepared. The legal environments of other countries should be considered, with the purpose of assembling the best laws to make Iceland a leader of freedoms of expression and information.”

Wikileaks.org, which helped draft the law, also has more information here (its site currently has restricted content, as it prepares for relaunch and seeks more funds).

In the Listening Post film, which also features Index on Censorship news editor Padraig Reidy, Wikileaks’ editor Julian Assange explains IMMI’s limits as well as its potential: “It’s important to remember that the IMMI appears to be a good bullet, but it’s not a magic bullet, so there will be many cases where there is brutal suppression of the press that IMMI doesn’t have substantial effect on.”

IMMI’s proponents hope new legislation will help change tough libel laws around the world, with a “ripple effect” in the EU and beyond.

Tags: Al Jazeera, Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, Index on Censorship, julian assange, padraig reidy, Whistleblowing, Wikileaks