#followjourn: @marcreeves – editor

#followjourn: @marcreeves

Who? Marc Reeves

Where? Marc is editor of theBusinessDesk.com West Midlands. He previously worked for a number of local newspaper companies including CN Group, Trinity Mirror, and BPM Media, and was editor of the Birmingham Post for more than three years. Marc is currently managing director of Reeves Associates. More information is available about his career on his LinkedIn page.

Contact? @marcreeves

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FT begins search for journalists to staff new online service

A new online service from the Financial Times is advertising for editors and writers to join them from across the globe.

FT Tilt, which will launch later this year, says on its landing page that it will provide “a similar blend of lively news and analysis for a specialist audience of finance professionals”.

The FT won’t discuss the project publicly just yet, but confirmed they are currently recruiting journalists as well as user interface engineers to work on the new site.

The project is being led by the same team that developed FT Alphaville, the company’s successful financial blog.

See more here…

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Charging for comments, instead of content

A US-based newspaper has announced it will charge readers $1 to comment on articles, in an interesting addition to recent debates surrounding online news revenue streams.

According to a report by the Editors Weblog, the Sun Chronicle will set the fee from tomorrow, with the payment process also meaning the posters name and town will also be published.

The article quotes the Chronicle’s publisher, Oreste D’Arconte, saying the payment has been introduced to “eliminate past excesses that included blatant disregard for our appropriateness guidelines, blind accusations and unsubstantiated allegations”.

But this has drawn some criticisms from those who feel anonymous speech often supports the most honest and open of comments.

See the full post here…

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David Mitchell breaks ranks to question Guardian paywall stance

As the Times and Sunday Times’ paywalls went up earlier this month, the Guardian welcomed a former Times blogger and readers to its website with some cheeky editorial.

The Times has done the same with columnists from the paper writing and blogging about their support for paid content. But interesting space on Comment is Free on Sunday was given over to some-time Guardian writer and comedian David Mitchell, who took the title’s strategy to task:

By implying that it thinks content should be free for moral reasons, the Guardian website is playing an extremely dangerous game. It’s an approach which not only makes it hypocritical to charge for the printed newspaper and the iPhone app, but also gives hostages to fortune: what if the Murdoch paywall, or some other “micropayment” system, starts to work? Are we to believe that the Guardian wouldn’t institute something similar? Or would it be happy to be reduced to the online equivalent of a freesheet?

Full post on Comment is Free at this link…

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – Public photography rights

Photography: EPUK have published answers from Civil Rights lawyer Shamik Dutta on FAQs regarding police powers and photography. Know your rights. Tipster: Rachel McAthy.

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Thirty-nine new media, editorial, PR and communications 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:

Search manager
Metro is looking for a search manager to join its digital team. Key purpose: To increase search referral traffic to Metro.co.uk and oversee the social media strategy. Exploit opportunities for maximum commercial gain.
Salary: DoE
Metro
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
All Locations/Telecommute, All
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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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Video journalist
ReelContent is looking to expand its video news production team with the addition of a new content writer.
Salary: £17K-£19K
Adfero
Leeds, United Kingdom
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Staff writer
A rare opportunity has arisen to join the market leader in consumer technology publishing – Computeractive is looking for a staff writer to join a busy, friendly team based in the West End of London.
Salary: DoE
Incisive Media
London, England
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Senior news reporter
Reporting to the news editor, the person will be responsible for generating top-quality written content for Financial Adviser, the leading weekly trade newspaper from FT Business.
Salary: DoE
Financial Times Group (Financial Adviser)
London, England
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Assistant editor
Frontier magazine is looking for an assistant editor to join its dynamic team
Salary: £22K
Metropolis Business Publishing
Croydon, England
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Editor
ArabianBusiness.com, the Middle East’s leading business website, is seeking a new editor to spearhead its next level of growth. The successful candidate will also be expected to play a major role in developing the Arabian Business brand.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Dubai, UAE, Middle East
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Fashion and beauty editor
Off the back of the success of Grazia Middle East, the team is set to launch Grazia Bahrain on September 1. We’re looking for a fashion and beauty editor to be based in Bahrain.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Bahrain, Middle East
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Sub-editor and lifestyle editor
Grazia Middle East, the highest-selling fashion magazine in the region, is looking for a highly motivated, super-thorough, massively creative lifestyle and sub-editor with attention to detail that’s so spot-on it hurts.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Dubai, UAE, Middle East
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Bonds/FX editor – London
Bloomberg News is seeking an experienced editor in London to cover government bonds, currencies and money markets. The successful candidate will join a team of 10 reporters and editors.
Salary: Competitive + benefits
Bloomberg
London, England
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Economy reporter – Athens
Bloomberg is seeking an experienced reporter to cover the Greek economy in Athens. Successful candidate will also be expected to work with other reporters on a range of Greek issues from banking to markets. Fluent Greek/English. Travel needed.
Salary: Competitive + benefits
Bloomberg
Athens, Greece
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Assistant editor – Midwives Magazine
This is an exciting new role, ideal for a multi-talented journalist.
Salary: Up to £27,767 p.a
Redactive Media Group
London, England
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Deputy editor – Midwives Magazine
This role offers you the opportunity to be involved in the development and expansion of both the print and online strategy for Midwives.
Salary: Up to £35K p.a.
Redactive Media Group
London, England
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Production editor
HedgeFund Intelligence is looking to hire a production editor to head its production office and manage the print & online production of its monthly titles, special reports and promotional material.
Salary: DoE
HedgeFund Intelligence
London, England
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Chief sub-editor
Financial Adviser is looking for a chief sub-editor to join its busy production desk. Part of the Financial Times Group, the role involves leading a small, hard-working team of sub-editors to produce a high quality weekly newspaper.
Salary: DoE
Financial Times Group (Financial Adviser)
London, England
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Programme Group Leader – Advertising and Communication
The Programme Group Leader within the advertising and communication group will have considerable experience in higher education and the current industry expertise needed to bring the portfolio up to date.
Salary: £46,410-£53,918
Southampton Solent University
Southampton, England
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Reporter
Fastmarkets Ltd, the leading online provider of data, news and research for base, precious and minor metals, is looking for an experienced reporter to join its expanding editorial operations in London.
Salary: DoE
FastMarkets
London, England
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Content manager – aboutproperty.co.uk
Adfero’s consumer news division has an exciting opportunity for an ambitious content manager looking to get their teeth into a new project.
Salary: £19K
Adfero
London, England
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Content manager – myfinances.co.uk
Adfero’s consumer news team has an exciting opening for a content manager with experience of personal finance to oversee the content of myfinances.co.uk.
Salary: £19K
Adfero
London, England
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Supplements and projects production editor
Retail Week and Drapers are looking for a production editor to manage the production of our supplements and contract publishing activities.
Salary: DoE
Emap Ltd
London, England
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SEO manager
MailOnline is looking for an experienced SEO manager to head up the Search Marketing team.The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the SEO and Analytics teams to achieve our objectives for traffic growth in a high pressure environment.
Salary: £50-£70K
Associated Newspapers Ltd
London, England
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News and Site Editor, SearchDataManagement.co.uk
This is an great opportunity to write and edit for a new website – SearchDataManagement.co.uk – for IT pros. We have a proven track record in the US and are investing many resources to make our UK sites successful. Apply today!
Salary: DoE
TechTarget
London, England
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SEO content executive
MailOnline is looking for an SEO executive to join the search marketing team at www.dailymail.co.uk. Working directly with reporters in the news room, the successful candidate will be responsible for optimising the editorial output.
Salary: £20-£25K
Associated Newspapers Ltd
London, England
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Deputy editor
Deputy editor wanted for KHL’s flagship international construction titles.
Salary: £20K-£30K
KHL Group
Wadhurst, England
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Senior reporter (full time, permanent contract)
Informa Business Information (IBI, part of Informa UK Ltd) provides publications, events and online services for the scientific, professional and commercial business communities.
Salary: £Competitive
IBI
London, England
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Freelance iPad journalists wanted
We are a new iPad based bi-monthly magazine looking forinventive journalist very comfortable with web/online media to fill a few positions we have: Feature/Editorial writer Fashion Editor China Journalist Japan Journalist
Salary: Payed per article
Katachi Media
Worldwide, All
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Editor – Nursing Times
An editor is needed to continue the rapid development of the editorial vision underpinning the Nursing Times brand.
Salary: DoE
Emap Inform
London, England
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Chief online reporter
The leading provider of news, analysis and comment on the European investment banking, securities and fund management industry, is looking for an experienced journalist to be the chief online reporter to lead its daily coverage on the website.
Salary: DoE
Financial News
London, England
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Reporter
The Paris bureau seeks a reporter to work at its spot news slot desk and report on general financial news as it occurs.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones Newswires
Paris, France
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Copy editor – Equities (EMEA Global Desk)
Dow Jones Newswires has an opening for a copy editor on the equities editing desk. The position involves editing real-time company news from Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as breaking news from Asia later in the day.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones Newswires
London, England
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Online editor
E2B Group Ltd is looking for an experienced and ambitious online editor to take control of web content across our environmental sector based B2B networking and news website.
Salary: £26K-£28K
E2B Group Ltd
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, England
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Economy reporter – Athens
Bloomberg News is seeking an experienced reporter to cover the Greek economy
Salary: Competitive plus benefits
Bloomberg
Athens, Greece
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Features editor
An opportunity has opened up to join an expanding magazine and website covering one of the most dynamic and growing industries, covering everything from digital music and publishing to online advertising and iPhone apps.
Salary: DoE
Centaur Communications Ltd
London, England
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Editor – Digital Broadcast Middle East
ITP Business is looking for an editor for Digital Broadcast Middle East, a monthly B2B magazine for those involved in the business of delivering and managing media content for television, cinema, radio, mobile and online distribution in the digital age.
Salary: DoE
ITP Business
Dubai, UAE, Middle East
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Editor – Caterer Middle East
ITP Business is looking for an editor for Caterer Middle East, a monthly B2B magazine for chefs, food and beverage directors, and restaurant managers in the GCC.
Salary: DoE
ITP Business
Dubai, UAE, Middle East
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News reporter
New Civil Engineer (NCE) magazine has a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, hungry news reporter to join its award winning team. The post is ideally suited to for someone looking to make their name and see their stories picked up by the nationals.
Salary: Competitive
Emap Ltd
London, England
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The unpaid internships debate: a clarification on our stance

Last week Journalism.co.uk wasn’t just reporting the debate about unpaid internships in the media industry – we were part of it after a six-month, unpaid placement with Tesco was listed on our forums. The ad was placed in error – we do list unpaid internships, so long as they are within a reasonable length of time.

We had some useful Twitter conversations about the listing and the ethics of listing unpaid internships at all – these have helped us update our policy for posting such listings on the forum.

As part of the discussions, I was contacted by Tanya de Grunwald who runs the website GraduateFog.co.uk, which is campaigning for an end to unpaid internships for graduates, to answer some questions on the issue. Not all of my responses were used in the resulting blog post – such is the editing process – so I thought I’d reproduce them here.

It would be really useful to hear your views on what kind of internships we should be listing on our forums, if any, so if you’re an employer, would-be recruit or recent graduate, please leave your thoughts in a comment.

My answers to Tanya’s questions (in bold) were as follows:

What is Journalism.co.uk’s policy on advertising unpaid internships? Are you aware that it is legally dubious to do this, not to mention ethically?
Internships – paid and unpaid – are listed on our forum. We don’t receive any money for those posted on the forum, such as the Tesco ad (SEE BELOW – question 3).

We currently carry these rules for posting work experience/internship listings on the forum:

This forum is intended for genuine, time-limited work experience placements and internships (of no longer than a month’s duration) only. Placements should involve shadowing  (and learning from) working journalists at an in-office location. We reserve the right to remove at our discretion any posts that are deemed to be in breach of these rules.

You can post in this forum free of charge – however, in order to get a better response (and much wider exposure) we would recommend posting on our jobs board at http://www.journalism.co.uk/75.

For more information about what constitutes a good work experience placement/internship please read the following post by forum user and freelance journalist Louise Bolotin: http://www.journalism.co.uk/journalists/forum/index.php/topic,519.0.html

These can be found at this link http://www.journalism.co.uk/journalists/forum/index.php/topic,2426.0.html and were updated yesterday to include a time limit of ‘no longer than a month’s duration’.

We want to provide a service to journalism students and job hunters who are looking for internships – either as part of their course requirements – or as a way to dip their toe into the industry and gain more experience. There is a balance to be struck between gaining experience with short-term placements and those employers that seek to exploit journalism students and graduates in a saturated market. Internships, conducted properly, can hold tremendous value for journalism students and graduates and we’ve reported on Skillset and the NUJ’s work to encourage better industry standards in this area. I hope we can continue to be part of the debate and drive to give better work experience placements and deals to new journalists.

We will be reviewing our policy on listing unpaid internships – starting with rooting out any that have been posted with a duration of  more than one month. The Tesco/Cedar ad was posted in error and has now been removed. I was interested to read in your blog post about the potential legal implications and I’ll be looking into this further as part of our review.

Do ads undergo any kind of screening process before they go live? What responsibility do you feel advertisers have towards protecting your applicants from exploitation?
I think I’ve answered this above – but just to clarify, we’re not paid for listing these work experience/internship opportunities on the forum, so they aren’t our applicants, though they may have been directed to the placement by our site.

Listings on this section of our forum are post-moderated: employers can list placements directly, in addition to our production team listing opportunities that they come across elsewhere. As mentioned, the Tesco ad has since been removed.

One thing to add: we hope that our forum and Twitter following will help us root out and flag up postings that they see as inappropriate. This discussion is useful and helps us modify our editorial and advertising policies in line with our users.

Did Tesco/Cedar pay for you to run this advertisement? How much do you charge?
None of the work experience/internship listings on our forum are paid for. We post interesting internship opportunities that we see listed elsewhere. I believe the Tesco/Cedar listing came from Gorkana.

Now that you have been made aware of this ad, will you be removing it?
We have removed the ad. It shouldn’t have been put up in the first place and we regret the error, though it has been useful in making us think further about our policy on listings for internships and work experience placements.

What will happen to any applications you have already received for this role?
See above – we’re replicating this ad, not handling any part of the application process.

Do you use unpaid interns within your office at Journalism.co.uk?
We regularly have journalism students and school students who need to complete work experience as part of their course come in to our office for one- to two-week placements. We do our very best to ensure the students have a worthwhile time here and try to tailor the placements to suit their needs. We also remember that they are students, still learning and we need to monitor and help them with this and not place unreasonable expectations on them. We do not currently pay such placement students.

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Journalism Online paid content system gets first user with obits paywall

Paid content system Journalism Online has its first user, reports Poynter. Lancaster Online, website for the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era titles in the US, will use the micropayments platform to paywall its obituaries from today.

Readers outside of Lancaster County will be free to view up to seven obits, after which they will have to pay $1.99 a month or $19.99 for an annual subscription.

Journalism Online was set up by former US newspaper executives Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery in June last year and received investment from News Corp last month.

Lancaster Online’s obituary pay scheme would “not amount to enough to reverse the fortunes of our newsroom, in and of itself”, admits the site’s editor of content development Ernie Schreiber. “But it might be a model for the next steps in how we meter other content (…) And it might pay for a few reporters.”

Poynter’s Bill Mitchell criticises certain elements of the move, including the fact that Lancaster Online is simply moving established content behind a paywall and not offering anything new to incentivise would-be customers:

One area where Lancaster falls short: providing customers with significant new value to persuade them to spend money today for something they got yesterday for free. How many more obit subscriptions might LancasterOnline sell, in other words, if it were to bundle customized obit newsletters as part of its monthly or annual fee?

Research suggests however that there is a healthy market for obituaries within the Lancaster Online readership. According to Schreiber, more than five per cent of the 47.4 million pages viewed the previous year were obituaries, and 100,000 readers outside of the county accessed an obituary page over that year.

Journalism Online’s Gordon Crovitz said Lancaster’s launch of the Journalism Online system will be followed by “many other launches over the summer”.

He claimed that the most popular “will be metered access to a website as a whole rather than a focus on a particular area of content”.

Full story at this link…

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BBC explains semantic technologies and linked data behind World Cup site

Using their World Cup site as an example, the BBC have posted an article explaining how they used, and intend to develop, linked data and semantic technologies to better present and share data.

John O’Donovan who is chief technical architect at BBC Future, explained how such technologies more effectively aggregate data on information-rich topics, such as the World Cup, which he says has more index pages than the entire rest of the BBC Sport site.

Another way to think about all this is that we are not publishing pages, but publishing content as assets which are then organised by the metadata dynamically into pages, but could be reorganised into any format we want much more easily than it could before.

The principles behind this are the ones at the foundation of the next phase of the internet, sometimes called the Semantic Web, sometimes called Web 3.0. The goal is to be able to more easily and accurately aggregate content, find it and share it across many sources. From these simple relationships and building blocks you can dynamically build up incredibly rich sites and navigation on any platform.

He identified the process as a shift from simply publishing stories and index pages, to publishing the content with intelligent tagging, saving time and improving accuracy.

He adds that it also enables the site to “accurately share this content and link out to other sites”, which was illustrated by a recent paidContent report where the BBC was rated number five for directing traffic to UK newspaper websites.

Read the full post here…

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Michigan news organisations join together to create aggregation site

News organisations across Michigan have joined together to launch an online aggregation site.

According to a report by Editor&Publisher, Michigan.com features content provided by more than 30 companies from the Detroit Media Partnership, which includes the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News.

The site pools information across a range of categories from news and sport, to traffic and weather updates, as well as a Twitter stream of relevant comments.

Users can reportedly customise topic boxes to suit their needs.

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