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These are the latest editorial, PR and media job opportunities from this week on Journalism.co.uk’s jobs board
Senior editor
Platts currently have a full-time vacancy for a Senior Editor on our Central Editing Desk in London, an exciting position, on the cutting edge of the news flow of the world’s leading source of energy news.
Salary: DoE
Platts
London, England
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Freelance correspondent
The role will also involve covering Premier League and Champions League matches for the Goal.com UK in addition to press conferences and other events.
Salary: DoE
Goal.com
Nationwide, United Kingdom
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Entertainment researchers/journalists
Talented entertainment, celebrity and arts researchers required for permanent and temporary positions at new, central London based, press agency.
Salary: £18K-£24K+ commensurate with experience
WhoWhenWhere
London, England
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Dutch freelancers
This leading online news agency is looking for freelance writers who are fluent in Dutch.
Salary: £8 per hour
Adfero
Flexible, England
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Freelance writer
Freelance writer required for new interiors and design section of award winning international architecture website.
Salary: DoE
World Architecture News
Brighton, England
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Reporter (low carbon) – Construction News
This award winning weekly publication is looking for a brilliant low carbon reporter who can crunch through the facts and figures surrounding this increasingly critical issue, to produce engaging, practical and actionable content.
Salary: DoE
Emap Inform
London, England
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Editor
Practical Fishkeeping is looking for an editor to produce the UK’s best-selling fishkeeping magazine and run one of the world’s best-known aquarium websites.
Salary: DoE
Bauer Media
Peterborough, England
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News editor
TrustedReviews is looking for a technology news reporter/editor to support the reviews team.
Salary: DoE
TrustedReviews/IPC Media
London, England
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Deputy editor/sub-editor
Deputy editor/sub-editor responsible for overseeing the compilation of a Dubai-based luxury travel magazine
Salary: DoE
WNN Limited
Dubai Media City, Dubai
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Assistant online editor
Assistant online editor responsible for day-to-day management of a travel news website
Salary: DoE
WNN Limited
Dubai Media City, Dubai
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Freelance Writers Wanted – All Topics
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.com
Telecommute/All Locations, All
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Production/sales assistant
To provide sales, admin and marketing support for leading news and recruitment site for journalists
Salary: DoE
Mousetrap Media Ltd
Brighton, England
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Guerrilla marketing/PR guru – Brighton
Community managers are driven, self-motivated, charismatic, and organized as they’re tasked with wrangling a slew of to-dos both on and offline, from writing and moderating to party planning and ringleading!
Salary: Competitive
Yelp
Brighton, England
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Guerrilla marketing/PR guru – Bristol
Community managers are driven, self-motivated, charismatic, and organized as they’re tasked with wrangling a slew of to-dos both on and offline, from writing and moderating to party planning and ringleading!
Salary: Competitive
Yelp
Bristol, England
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Production/online editor
Newzeye is a small friendly publishing and conference company concentrating on the built environment based near Ladbroke Grove.
Salary: £22K-£24K
Newzeye
London, England
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Reporter
Debtwire CEEMEA (Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) is looking to recruit a reporter for its real-time news desk reporting on the region’s capital markets.
Salary: £22K-£28K
Debtwire Emerging Europe
London, England
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Research writer
Pageant Media is looking for a bright, hard-working and tenacious full-time research writer to work on a series of annual financial research projects.
Salary: DoE
Pageant Media
London, England
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Picture/multimedia producer
Msnbc.com is seeking an experienced picture editor/multimedia producer for our London office.
Salary: DoE
msnbc.com
London, England
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Editor/writer – family gaming
CNET UK is looking for a person to set up and manage an exciting new section of the site dedicated to family gaming. We’re looking for a good writer with strong people, organisation and interview skills to write for this high profile section.
Salary: DoE
CBS Interactive
London, England
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News reporter
Journalists keen to develop a career in business writing are needed for an established team reporting on international law and business.
Salary: DoE
Law Business Research Ltd
London, England
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Content writers
Adfero, a leading online news agency, is looking for talented and enthusiastic writers to join its DirectNews division in Manchester and Leeds.
Salary: £16K
Adfero
Manchester and Leeds, England
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Online editor
B2B Marketing is looking for an online editor to play a key role in its evolution into a fully interactive online community.
Salary: DoE
B2B Marketing
London, England
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Trainee news reporter
An excellent opportunity to apply as a trainee news reporter at Law Business Research, a legal publishing company, based in west London.
Salary: DoE
Law Business Research
London, England
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Art editor – Ahlan!
The Middle East’s biggest-selling Hollywood celebrity title is looking for a creative and talented art editor.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Dubai Media City, Dubai
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Production editor
Are you a talented sub-editor looking for a new challenge? What Mountain Bike is looking for a production editor to work on the cycling industry’s most respected and authoritative testing title and play a pivotal role on the team.
Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Researcher/reporter
Full time reporter/researcher role within successful B2B publisher.
Salary: DoE
Pageant Media
London, England
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Reporter
International Tax Review needs a reporter to write for the magazine and its online publications.
Salary: DoE
Euromoney Institutional Investor
London, England
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Part-time entertainment reporter
We are searching for enthusiastic writers with a passion for all things entertainment to produce content for the site.
Salary: £8.50 per hour
Digital Spy
Home-based position, All
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News editor – Farmers Guardian
Farmers Guardian, the agriculture industry’s weekly newspaper, is looking for a determined, innovative and skilled News Editor. We’ve got a strong history of delivering exclusive news stories to our readers in print and online.
Salary: DoE
UBM Information Ltd
Preston, England
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Online editor
B2B Marketing is looking for an online editor to play a key role in its evolution into a fully interactive online community.
Salary: £27K-£32K
B2B Marketing
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, 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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Senior editor (English-language)
A leading communications company based in Saudi Arabia and operating across the Middle East seeks an experienced editor to deliver high-quality business-to-business publications.
Salary: DoE
GBC
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Middle East
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Reporter – capital markets
To expand our services, we are looking for someone with drive, opinion and desire to become an expert in capital markets.
Salary: Competitive
Capital Market Daily
London, England
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Budding video journalists and future news presenters can apply for free TV production training as part of Bloomberg’s Broadcast Volunteer programme.
Applications are being accepted until 18 August for a September start and are open to anyone aged between 18-25, not in education, employment or training. Bloomberg advertise the programme as providing:
Eight days of intensive training in TV Production and Broadcasting skills plus three top-up sessions.
At least 80 hours volunteering at Roundhouse Studios in September and October 2010, putting your skills into practice by supporting Roundhouse TV and Film projects and documenting Roundhouse events.
Great work experience to put on your CV.
Tags: Bloomberg, Training, TV production, video journalism, young journalists
Drops in consumer magazine circulations appear to be improving according to a report by PaidContent on the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ Fas-Fax report today.
The downward trajectory of consumer magazine circulation appears to have slowed in the first half of the year. While publishers weren’t able to muster the slightly positive growth that ad pages have had lately—the Publishers Information Bureau recorded its first increase in ad pages and rates after two negative years last month—but as mags rely more on paid circ to pay the bills, these numbers are becoming more crucial. So far, paid circ is becoming more stable, but newsstand sales are struggling much harder.
According to the report, total paid and verified circulations for the first six months of this year still saw a decrease of 2.27 per cent on the same period last year.
Tags: audit bureau of circulation, circulations, Magazines, paidContent
Certainly among the more forward thinking magazines in terms of content, New Scientist has this week boldly gone where no magazine (they “suspect”) has gone before: neuromarketing.
Neuromarketing is a from of marketing that uses brain-imaging technology to “peek into people’s heads and discover what they really want”.
You may find that sinister. What right does anyone have to try to read your mind? Or perhaps you are sceptical and consider the idea laughable. But neuromarketing, once dismissed as a fad, is becoming part and parcel of modern consumer society. So we decided to take a good look at it – and try it out ourselves.
A group of New Scientist readers – 19 men, to be precise – were connected to an electroencephalograph (EEG) machine shown various cover designs for the latest edition, after which NeuroFocus Europe, the company undertaking the tests, looked for “specific EEG patterns which the company believes betray whether or not a person will buy a product”.
The winning design is now on the newsstands. As for how it will sell, that is another test entirely.
See the full post at this link…
You can also take part in the magazine’s “Rate the Cover” survey at this link.
Tags: Magazines, Marketing, NeuroFocus Europe, neuromarketing, New Scientist
Reports of press photographers having their cameras seized and images deleted by police have frequented the news in the past few weeks, with the most recent case picked up by the National Union of Journalists.
On Saturday 31 July, NUJ member Carmen Valino was forced to hand over her camera to police after photographing a crime scene from behind the police cordon. She was allegedly accused of disrupting a police investigation.
According to a report by the NUJ, she was then made to delete the images before being told she could return at a later time.
A police Sergeant approached Valino telling her that she was disrupting a police investigation and to hand over her camera. After protesting to the Sergeant that she was in a public place, outside the cordon he had no right to take her camera, he grabbed her wrist and pulled out his handcuffs. Before he could put the cuffs on she handed him her camera. He then left for five minutes before coming back, bringing Valino inside the cordon and asking her to show him the images and deleting them. Valino was told that she could come back in a few hours to photograph the scene.
Similarly, earlier on in the month the BBC reported on Wokingham photographer Paul King who was taking pictures of a car crash when a traffic officer took his camera away. The officer then deleted King’s pictures before returning the camera to him.
Speaking to the BBC, he said the actions of the officer had cost him £400 in loss of earnings.
The officer came after me in a police car, grabbed hold of me and told me he was going to arrest me. He took my equipment but when it was brought back I had a look at the images and they were not there. I have made a formal complaint to the police and I am seeking legal advice from the NUJ. My role is to photograph news so the general public can see what’s going on.
Bob Satchwell from the Society of Editors will reportedly be raising concerns about the issue of forced deletion with the ACOP this week.
According to an experienced professional photographer we spoke to, software including Lexar Image Rescue or Sandisk RescuePro can be used to retrieve images that have been deleted. But they added that it is vital photographers do not load anymore photographs onto the card once the deletions have been made.
Tags: police and the media, press freedom, press photographer, public photography rights
Could the local coffee shop become the new newsroom for local reporters?
According to Mallary Tenore at PoynterOnline, journalists operating out of coffee shops in the US have been finding stories and making contacts like never before, as they quite literally integrate themselves within their community patch.
Many editors consider their best reporters the ones they never see — because they’re out in the community. Fisher at The Washington Post said the reporters who worked out of coffee shops for the day found sources and stories they may not have otherwise come across.
Rather than keeping reporters at their office desks, it appears that editors who let a journalist’s quick ‘cuppa’ seep into an all-day pursuit will reap the rewards. Journalism.co.uk reported in June how Freehold InJersey (FinJ) had moved its newsroom to a local cafe. They hoped this would invite stronger links between the community news site and its local readers. They even provide a free computer for readers to use.
See the full post at his link…
Tags: coffee shop newsrooms, Freehold InJersey, local journalism, local reporters, PoynterOnline
#followjourn: @dansung
Who? Dan Sung, tech journalist, football blogger, and features writer at Pocket-lint. Appearing on Journalism.co.uk despite being a Spurs fan. Claims to be the “inventor of the dirty pudding”. Perhaps it’s best not to know what that is.
Where? Dan’s work can be found over on Pocket-lint.com, with separate pages for his news and reviews archives.
Contact? @dansung
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.
Tags: Dan Sung, Pocket-lint, technology
Following the arrest of Mzilikazi wa Afrika, Sipho Ngcobo, Sunday Times investigative journalist and former deputy editor of Business Report, reflects on what he says was a “frightening” week for journalists in South Africa.
South African media are currently battling the Protection of Information Bill, which according to Ngcobo is fuelling fears the government will be able to “clampdown and muzzle media”.
There is virtually no real clarity as what Mzilikazi wa Afrika was arrested for. But we worry, I worry about him. I worry about the profession and the business of media. I am worried sick about the future of the industry.
But, he adds, the growth in poor quality journalism does warrant improved regulation of the media, or else reporters should prepare for the “death” of the industry.
I cannot say I am totally surprised by the proposed Bill. There has been a lot of shoddy journalism taking place. Some of it has been outright criminal, extremely libellous, demeaning to individuals and families and even contemptuous to the courts. It has been so bad that I have often wondered what the future holds.
See his full post on MoneyWeb here…
Tags: arrested journalists, Moneyweb, Mzilikazi wa Afrika, protection of information bill, Sipho Ngcobo, South Africa, Sunday Times
Steve Safran from Lost Remote adds a reflective take on Google Wave to the comment mounting up about it’s demise. According to Safran, the platform’s processes could be mirrored in the newsroom.
Back in September 2009, I wrote in the AR&D Newsletter: “Imagine starting a wave in your office about a news topic. People can constantly add to it, putting in the latest pictures, video and information. The assignment desk can contribute its findings and the reporters and producers have instant access, as well as the ability to add more. We don’t yet know how newsrooms can fully take advantage of this tool (and isn’t that wonderful?) but we do believe it will be a powerful way to have the entire staff work together.”
I was wrong.
Despite the product failing, says Safran, the experimentation should be admired.
Tags: Google Wave, Lost Remote, search engine, Steve Safran
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