Police remove teenage photographer from parade, citing terrorism act

Jules Mattsson, a 15-year-old photographer, challenged police officers attempting to restrict his photographing of an Armed Forced Parade in Romford on Saturday. As the recording posted to YouTube demonstrates, Mattsson was unrelenting in asserting his rights to the policeman, who eventually resorted to telling him he was a “threat under the terrorism act” and confiscating his camera. Mattsson can then be heard accusing the officer of pushing him down a flight of stairs.

Mattsson writes about the incident on his blog:

Especially poignant this incident took place the day after photojournalist Marc Vallee and videographer Jason Parkinson won their case against the met for an incident outside the Greek Embassy where Marc had his camera grabbed and Jason had his lens covered by an armed police officer. Many have hailed this ruling as ‘a victory for press freedom’, and I would be inclined to agree. However, until the met’s guidance on photography and a clearer understanding of the law filters down to the streets, we will continue to see incidents like this.

Read more on the Marc Vallee/Jason Parkinson case on Journalism.co.uk.

Source: Boing Boing

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Thirty-one new media, editorial and PR vacancies this week on Journalism.co.uk

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

Editor
Successful publishing house seeks editor for part of their B2B magazine portfolio. As editor, you will work with the managing editor and assistant editor to plan and manage editorial content in a portfolio of linked business management titles.
Salary: £22K-£26K
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Health and fitness writers
Writing for LIVESTRONG.com is a great way for health professionals to showcase their expertise and build their online brand with bylines and bios attached to each published piece.
Salary: $25-$35 USD per hour
LIVESTRONG.com
telecommute, All
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Bilingual journalist (M/F) – Persian language
Reporting directly to the duty editors and heads of programme sections, and under the supervision of the head of Farsi service, you will write and mix your stories, in compliance with the editorial guidelines of the channel.
Salary: DoE
Euronews
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Sub-editor
ZDNet UK is looking for an enthusiastic sub-editor to join its busy editorial team. The ideal candidate will be a stickler for detail and passionate about words.
Salary: DoE
CBS Interactive
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Technical writer
Want to work on Digital Photo, the UK’s best-selling photography magazine, reviewing the latest photography kit and writing camera and Photoshop techniques? This is your chance to join the Digital Photo team!
Salary: DoE
Bauer Media
Peterborough, England
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Managing editor online
Based in central London, with offices in Australia, India and the US, Progressive Digital Media offers an exciting and fun working environment, and the opportunity to make a direct impact on our business.
Salary: £32K-£34K
Progressive Digital Media Group
London, England
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Ambitious journalist/sub-editor
We are a successful, dynamic, independent company publishing B2B titles for the contemporary live music industry. We need a senior journalist/news editor to become a vital part of our team and help drive the company’s rapid growth potential.
Salary: DoE
Audience Media Ltd
London, England
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Financial reporter
We are seeking a talented and experienced financial reporter to join our Moscow bureau. The financial reporter is required to write about Russian companies and industries.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones Newswires
Moscow, Russia
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Summer editorial intern
We are a small online media agency that owns and runs three successful websites in the financial services industry and we are looking for another great mind to lend us a hand in the fast-paced day-to-day running of the business from our Maida Vale hub.
Salary: Expenses Only
Bridging and Commercial Ltd
London, England
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Talented Freelance Writers Wanted
Suite101 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
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Reporter
Dow Jones Newswires is looking for a reporter to work for its Zawya Dow Jones News Service in Dubai. The position will involve a mixture of equities, corporate finance, banking, M&A, IPO and energy coverage as directed.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones Newswires
Dubai, UAE, Middle East
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PR coordinator (F/M) – product communication
If automotive is your passion, then get your career moving at the Mazda Motor Europe headquarters. Mazda is on the fast track to success in Europe and we’ve got where we are with daring solutions, ingenious ideas and fun thinking.
Salary: DoE
Mazda Motor Europe GmbH
Leverkusen, Germany
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Deputy editor
Do you want to take on a pivotal editorial role on Computer Arts, the world’s best-selling creative magazine? We are looking for a talented Deputy Editor to manage key sections within the magazine.
Salary: £competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Market Reporter – EMEA oil (six month contract)
We are currently recruiting for a six month fixed term contract position; this role involves the reporting, analysis and benchmarking of oil markets.
Salary: DoE
Platts
London, England
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Editor – The Ecologist
The Ecologist requires an Editor to take it through its next stage of development and growth
Salary: DoE
Ecosystems Ltd
London, United Kingdom
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News reporter/editor
The Prague Post seeks a news reporter/editor. Web skills are a plus.
Salary: DoE
The Prague Post
Prague, Rest of Europe
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Layout sub-editor
Super sub-editor with strong artworking skills sought to work on financial and other publications for Society Media.
Salary: DoE
Society Media
London, England
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Reporter, iisearches
The new reporter will cover institutional investors and plan sponsors in the UK, Europe and Asia to produce exclusive copy on investment management mandates and other plan sponsor news.
Salary: DoE
Euromoney Institutional Investor
London, England
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Senior bilingual financial reporter
Senior reporter wanted to join SNL Financial’s growing news team in London
Salary: DoE
SNL Financial
London, England
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Senior reporter
Structured Products, the magazine for intelligence on derivatives-based investments, is looking for an enthusiastic senior reporter to work across the magazine, events and website.
Salary: DoE
Incisive Media
London, England
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Features editor
Citywire seeks a features editor for New Model Adviser®, our award winning flagship weekly magazine for professional financial planners.
Salary: DoE
Citywire Financial Publishers Ltd
London, England
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Investment writer
Citywire’s website for consumer investors seeks an investment writer to join its fast paced, highly focused and busy online team.
Salary: £30-32k
Citywire Financial Publishers Ltd
London, England
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Editorial assistant
You will be responsible for the production of scientific journals. You will chase, collate and sub-edit raw copy, as well as designing pages using Quark/InDesign. STM publishing experience and/or a journalism qualification preferred.
Salary: £13K-£16K
Pelican Magazines Ltd
Harrogate , England
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Market reporter – international coal
The main focus of the role will be reporting and editing news related to the international coal market and producing general industry news and market reports.
Salary: DoE
Platts
London, England
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Senior designer
ITP Executive Publishing division require a senior designer responsible for the design and layout of Arabian Business magazine and one monthly title.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Dubai, UAE, Middle East
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Editor
TotallyMoney.com is a major financial comparison portal run by Media Ingenuity an online marketing and technology group specialising in financial intermediation.
Salary: DoE
Media Ingenuity/TotallyMoney
London, England
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Features writer
Leading monthly trade title Salon Business has been a major voice in the professional hairdressing industry for over 10 years and is looking for a brilliant features writer.
Salary: DoE
Salon Business
Caterham, England
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Senior production editor
We need an experienced and talented wordsmith to help turn two of the UK’s best-recognised and best-selling golf magazines, Today’s Golfer and Golf World, into shining examples of world-class specialist journalism.
Salary: DoE
Today’s Golfer/Golf World
Peterborough, England
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Assistant editor
UKIP Media & Events in Dorking, Surrey, has an opportunity for a talented and enthusiastic Assistant Editor.
Salary: DoE
UKIP Media and Events
Dorking, England
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Assistant editor
Role in print, online and new flash-based digital publishing format for motivated “up and coming” assistant editor at complete media communications firm
Salary: DoE
Rapid News
Chester, England
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Jack of Kent: Could Lester’s libel reform bill fail to launch?

The excellent Jack of Kent blog asks if the reforms to libel legislation in England and Wales put forward by Lord Lester in May will be hindered by a lack of parliamentary resource and time.

The bill, which would expand the fair comment defence and reform the law to better reflect online publications, will have its second reading in the House of Lords on 9 July. But, says Jack of Kent’s author David Allen Green:

The coalition government has not committed itself to any parliamentary time for libel reform in the current legislative session, a session which could last until November 2011; similarly the Ministry of Justice has not committed any departmental resources to putting a bill through parliament.

(…)

However, if the bill which does go forward from the debate on 9 July 2010 is not actually a good bill then it may be that such a ‘fail’ is not really a problem, and the libel reform campaign should look forward to the 2011-2012 session.

Full post at this link…

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hyperlocal 101: Should journalists edit community correspondents?

An interesting post for local news journalists and editors in particular on whether reports, articles and posts submitted by “community correspondents” and readers should be substantially edited before publication. Shields Bialasik, who has experience of running a hyperlocal newspaper in the US called LocalsGuide, says he asks for all submissions for sites, such as blogs and hyperlocal sites run by larger news groups, to be ready for publication in terms of format and readability.

(Putting the issue of legal checks to one side for the moment) Bialasik explains why he holds back from editing:

My job as I see it as the owner of the media machine is to deliver the message. Similar to the job of the post office. I deliver the mail, not open it up along the way, change the message and then deliver it.

Yet, if you take some time to think about this you will realise this is exactly what is occurring with practically all mainstream media. Who’s [sic] voice is really being heard, who’s [sic] point of view are we really being convinced of or represented?

Full post at this link…

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – multimedia kits for all budgets

The Innovative Interactivity site has made a list of recommended multimedia gear kits for “low, moderate, and high-end budgets”. Check out suggestions for cameras, audio recorders and editing software. Tipster: Judith Townend.

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Techdirt: The problem of reporting on your own paywall

Interesting round-up from Techdirt on how newspaper companies and titles report on their own paywall plans. The post follows news that US company Gannett, which owns a number of regional US newspapers and the UK’s Newsquest group, is beginning a paywall experiment.

Argues Mike Masnick for Techdirt:

They give misleading headlines, they pretend that paywalls are some huge journalistic advance (rather than just a business model choice – and one that’s been tried and failed a bunch), and most importantly, they all totally bury the lede, and don’t bring up the paywall until many paragraphs into the article.

(…)

What we’re seeing is the implicit realization that these newspapers know a paywall won’t work. If it was something their audience wanted, they would be upfront and honest about it. Or if they had a good rationale for the decision they would be upfront and honest about it. Instead they have to be misleading, defensive and hide the important point. Quite an “experiment” by Gannett…

Full story at this link…

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paidContent:UK: How BBC News and Drudge send UK newspapers traffic

Data from the Newspaper Marketing Agency, turned into an interactive graphic by paidContent:UK, suggests that the Drudge Report and BBC News are two of the top traffic drivers to UK commercial newspaper websites.

The BBC News site referred 1,992,425 unique users to the papers’ websites in April, according to the figures.

Google dominates the search referrals list, directing 39,694,597 unique users to the sites. While Twitter is yet to make the top 10 of sites referring traffic to newspapers, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg are all up there.

Full chart and stats at this link…

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Video: USAToday.com designer Juan Thomassie talks interactives at Norwegian conference

Juan Thomassie (@jthomassie1), senior designer at at USATODAY.com talking about data-driven interactive graphics at the Norwegian Online News Association (NONA) annual conference earlier this month.

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Overheard: Journalists assess Palin speech; prove they can be caught by a live mic too

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Financial Times searches for subscription building ideas – via crowdsourcing

The Financial Times has commissioned South African company Idea Bounty to help it source new revenue-making ideas. The creative mind with the best idea will win US $5,000.

As the tech site MemeBurn reported, the newspaper, which operates a tiered paid content/registration system, is searching for ideas for “how to increase the number of new subscriptions to its website FT.com.”

Idea Bounty, a project that connects clients with creatives, has launched this project on its site, ‘We Live in Digital Times’:

We are looking for digital marketing ideas which will increase the number of new subscriptions to the Financial Times online offering FT.com

The overall winner will win the cash bounty, but cleverly enough, ten runner-up prizes “will take the form of a full annual subscription to the Financial Times”.

The FT confirmed its partnership with Idea Bounty, but did not wish to comment further, when approached by Journalism.co.uk.

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