The AWL: Cash-for-traffic scheme underway at New York Observer

The New York Observer has instigated a new cash reward scheme for its staff. There are five categories: pageviews; posts; Twitter followers; comments; and external pickups.

In each of the five categories there will be a $500 dollar bonus for the staffer with the highest number, and $350 for the runner up.

According to AWL, “The tips for “pageviews” included using Google Trends and Twitter and other web tools to see “what’s buzzing” on the web, so as to write about more popular things”.

AWL puts the scheme into context: “Annualized, the bonus pool of $48,000 could hire two extremely junior reporters with no benefits or a single rather senior one.”

Follow this link to read David Amerland on Journalism.co.uk last month discussing performance-related pay in journalism.

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Twenty-six new media vacancies and job opportunities for journalists on Journalism.co.uk

Looking for a job in journalism? Register as a job seeker on Journalism.co.uk and check out the latest editorial and media job opportunities this week on Journalism.co.uk’s jobs board:

Deputy features editor
The Grocer is one of the UK’s top business weeklies and has an exciting opportunity for a new Deputy Features Editor.
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Intern trainee food science reporter
Are you passionate about food science? Could you report top-quality, breaking news about the latest scientific developments in the food and nutrition industries? If the answer is yes, Decision News Media would like to hear from you.
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Senior reporter – maternity cover
just-food, the leading online magazine for the global food industry, is seeking an experienced business journalist for a 12-month maternity contract.
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Freelance pharmaceutical reporters
Decision News Media is looking for talented freelance reporters to help strengthen the coverage of its flagship pharmaceutical titles In-PharmaTechnologist.com and Out-Sourcing-Pharma.com.
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Two intern online trainee news reporters
We are looking for two trainee reporters to work in Montpellier for at least six months, and possibly longer, delivering multi-media content to our Pharmaceutical and our Cosmetics titles.
Salary: To be discussed
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Multiplatform Journalism
You should be able to teach online journalism within a digital newsroom and should have recent professional experience.
Salary: DoE
University of Bedfordshire
Luton, England
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in TV News Journalism
You should be able to teach TV news reporting, contribute to curriculum development and should have recent professional experience.
Salary: DoE
University of Bedfordshire
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Sports Journalism
You should have recent experience as a sports journalist and be able to teach the theory and practice of sports journalism at undergraduate level.
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Deputy editor – Procycling
Procycling, the world’s leading English-language road racing magazine, is looking for a keen Deputy Editor with a passion for cycling and an eye for a great feature
Salary: competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Web associate producer
An opportunity to work as an associate producer on the Web team at CNBC – a leading pan-EMEA business and financial television channel. Please quote job #1125425 when applying.
Salary: DoE
CNBC
London, England
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Head of design, Time Out GCC
Based in ITP’s Dubai office, you will be capable of driving the quality of design across the group, managing a very busy schedule and motivating the team to greater things. Experience as a design manager on magazines is a prerequisite of the role.
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Deputy editor – PhotoRadar
Take on a Deputy Editor role on Future’s newest website launch, PhotoRadar.com, and combine your passion for photography with your keen interest in online journalism.
Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Senior writer, Oil and Gas Middle East
ITP Business is looking for a journalist for Oil & Gas Middle East, its B2B title for the region’s upstream professionals.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Dubai, UAE, Middle East
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Editor, Sound and Stage
ITP Business is looking for an editor for Sound & Stage, its B2B title for the live events production industry in the Middle East.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Dubai, UAE, Middle East
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Editor, Construction Week
ITP Publishing Group based in Dubai needs an experienced editor to take over Construction Week our established weekly B2B news magazine.
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ITP Publishing Group
Dubai, UAE, Middle East
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Editor, Digital Studio
ITP Business is looking for an editor for Digital Studio, its B2B title for the TV and film production industry in the Middle East.
Salary: DoE
ITP Business
Dubai, UAE, Middle East
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Subeditor
Working in a friendly in-house Production Team in West London, the successful candidate will be required to subedit and proofread copy for our legal handbooks and journals.
Salary: DoE
Law Business Research Ltd
London, United Kingdom
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Online magazine hiring freelance writers
Suite101.com is a popular online magazine that offers authoritative articles, intelligent reviews and expert commentary to over 28 million readers each month.
Salary: Lifetime royalties plus bonuses and incentives
Suite101.com
All locations/telecommute, All
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Senior account executive
We are seeking a talented senior account executive to join our friendly team to work on a range of blue-chip accounts.
Salary: DoE
William Murray Communications
London, England
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Sub-editor, ZDNet UK
ZDNet UK is looking for an enthusiastic sub-editor to join its busy editorial team. A keen interest in both online publishing and IT is desirable
Salary: DoE
CBS Interactive
London, England
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Website editor and production editor
Running the website www.fph.org.uk and acting as production editor for quarterly magazine Public Health Today.
Salary: £30K
Faculty of Public Health
London, England
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Reporter – Life and Pensions
Life and Pensions, a sister publication to Risk Magazine, has a vacancy for a reporter. Based in Haymarket House, the role involves features and news writing on risk management issues affecting both sectors globally.
Salary: DoE
Incisive Media
London, England
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Reporter
The commodities team of Dow Jones Newswires requires an agriculture reporter in its London bureau. The successful candidate would ideally have experience and/or knowledge of agriculture or other financial markets.
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Dow Jones Newswires
London, England
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Reporter – FX Week
FX Week’s expert analysis provides information on the powerful forces that are making the markets tick and events that are shaping the industry globally. A reporter is now required to to see the magazine through its next phase of rapid growth.
Salary: DoE
Incisive Media
London, England
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Production editor – Computer Music
Computer Music is the world’s best selling magazine dedicated solely to making music with your Mac or PC. We are looking for a Production Editor to play a pivotal part within the team.
Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Editor – Your Family Tree
Take on the high-profile role of editor on Your Family Tree, Future’s market-leading family history magazine, and continue to grow the success of the brand in a highly competitive sector.
Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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#followjourn: @lizhollis/freelance

#followjourn: Liz Hollis

Who? Freelance journalist.

Where? Hollis has worked for major national newspapers and received a journalism award for her work in the Guardian. She has her own website here, as well as a blog on which she writes about the media and finance among other things.

Contact? @lizhollis.

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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AP to launch copyright tracking system on 14 July

The Associated Press will launch its news registry on 14 July, opening it up to all members and publishers who want to sign up before the end of 2010, the agency has announced.

The new system will automatically notify the agency and members about how their content is used beyond their own websites. It also stores information identifying each piece of AP content distributed and its terms of use.

The registry will make use of the new microformat for metadata introduced by the AP earlier this month, which has been added to all its news stories online to encourage an industry standard for tagging.

“Beyond analytics, the registry also will set the stage for a new way of doing business as a cooperative,” says Tom Curley, AP president and CEO, in a release.

“Every content creator who uses the registry will be able to set the rights for the use of that content, so that it can be copied legally or used in new products that the industry or others create with proper permission and compensation.”

More than 200 AP member newspapers have signed up as beta testers of the system and the agency expects this number to reach 600 by the July launch date.

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Independent journalist attacked while investigating voting fraud

A journalist investigating voting fraud in the UK was attacked yesterday while on a reporting job.

Jerome Taylor was repeatedly punched and kick by the group of attackers, who approached him in Bow, east London, where Taylor was looking to speak to a local election candidate about allegations of postal vote fraud.

He describes the ordeal in an article on Independent.co.uk today:

I don’t know how long it lasted – it was probably only a minute – but it was a long minute. I don’t remember them saying anything as they did it. The first noise I was aware of was the beeping of a car horn and a woman screaming.

The noise brought a man out of a nearby block of flats. With little regard for his own safety he waded in and defended me until my attackers ran away.

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‘No reporters/no dogs allowed’: Dan Rather on reporting Civil Rights

From Advancing the Story, US broadcasting veteran Dan Rather on his experiences of reporting the Civil Rights movement in the US.

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Armando Iannucci: #bigotgate turned UK media into ‘pack of shrieking gibbons’

Creator of TV political satire The Thick of It, Armando Iannucci on bigotgate and what it says about the UK’s media:

The journalist from Sky News was in some kind of hysterical state of tumescence as he cackled “Gordon Brown’s done a gaffe and we wondered if you’d come on to respond. You’ve got to see it!” on my answering service, and I’m sorry I deleted it rather than release it in to the public domain. The BBC was no less sensationalist in its pokey recording of Brown sitting listening to his own surreptitiously recorded voice played back to him.

It’s at these moments that you stand back and see, not a nation debating its future, but a pack of shrieking gibbons.

Thankfully, though, Bigotgate seems to have had no impact on the polls. This has restored my faith in this election as a sober, sincere and considered affair, though it’s shed a light on what the media machine can do when it’s taken too much Red Bull.

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Google News Blog: Google’s Living Stories come to WordPress

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The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment (…) Complete coverage of an on-going story is gathered together and prioritised on one URL.

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Beet.tv: WaPo plans live video programmes for hundreds of reporters

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The programmes will be developed to include live chats with story sources and commentators, and feature questions from readers about the topic being discussed, posted as a webchat around the video.

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TheRecord.com: Blind journalism student takes on photography class

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“It’s not as hard as I thought it would be,” says Welford-Costelloe, 23. “All I need help with is how to hold the camera. I just need someone to show me where to point the camera.”

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