Global Thinkers: Television is going vertical

Thomson Reuters’ global editor, multimedia, Chris Cramer on the future of broadcasting and why narrow-casting not linear television networks are the way forward:

The days of linear television networks are coming to an end. I think only people with very large amounts of money or people who are stupid will launch linear television networks in the future. People won’t be launching a single channel with programmes that go one after the other, you’re going to launch a vertical channel (…) So people want to play a part in media consumption these days, they don’t want to sit there and just take it. They’re not going to make appointments and sit there with their legs crossed and their faces washed and watch TV anymore. It doesn’t make it depressing, it makes it really exciting.

Full interview on Global Thinkers at this link…

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Media Culpa: Promoting Facebook groups is breach of Swedish broadcast act

Public service radio and TV shows in Sweden that encourage listeners to join or discuss stories on Facebook are in breach of the Swedish Radio and Television Act, according to a new ruling reported by Media Culpa.

According to the Commission, it is accepted to inform the public of the existence of a Facebook page or group, but encouraging listeners or viewers to join them is considered one step too far.

Full post on Media Culpa at this link…

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – advice for students

Robert Niles offers his top five tips on the Online Journalism Review website for students about to embark on a new journalism course. Tipster: Rachel McAthy.

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#followjourn: @willfindlater – Will Findlater/editor

#followjourn: @willfindlater

Who? Will Findlater, a self-confessed “man with an unfortunate name” and editor of Stuff Magazine.

Where? Will has his own blog on the Stuff site.

Contact? @willfindlater

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 laura at journalism.co.uk; or to @journalismnews.

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Thirty-four editorial, new media, communications and PR jobs 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

Online editor
You’ll be editing, producing and promoting engaging web content to help increase awareness of and encourage involvement in our work to improve the lives of consumers.
Salary: £32K-£45K + benefits
Which?
London, United Kingdom
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Talented writers wanted
With over 28 million readers worldwide, Suite101 is the ideal platform to help build your portfolio and profile. With Suite101, you can write about what you want, when you want, from the comfort of your home.
Salary: Lifetime royalties plus bonuses and incentives
Suite101.com
Home-based, United Kingdom
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Senior producer – online media
Based in London, the Senior Producer, UK will have a dual, hands-on role of managing a growing team of producers, as well as working with clients to maximise performance for their online campaigns.
Salary: DoE
Travelzoo (Europe) Ltd
London, England
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Editor – Network Middle East
ITP Business Publishing, based in the exciting, tax-free coastal city of Dubai, is looking for an editor for Network Middle East, its monthly B2B title for the IT networking and security market in the Middle East.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
UAE, Dubai
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Reporter (Retail Week)
Retail Week, the leading title for the UK’s £285bn retail industry, is seeking a reporter to join our busy news desk.
Salary: DoE
Emap
London, All
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Deputy head of content
The Digital Property Group needs a motivated, experienced writer and editor with solid online experience for a new role within the group reporting to the head of content.
Salary: £35K
The Digital Property Group
London, England
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Content executive
A creative and flexible writer with online content and marketing skills is sought to help take The Digital Property Group’s portals forward to the next stage – working on PrimeLocation.com, FindaProperty.com and, in particular, Globrix.com.
Salary: £27K
The Digital Property Group
London, All
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Research and reporting interns
A two-week internship focussed primarily on the researcher/reporter role within Adfero’s DirectNews division. Opportunities available in Manchester
Salary: Unpaid, extraordinary travel expenses covered.
Adfero
Manchester, England
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Freelancer
We need experienced, reliable, flexible all-rounders with high levels of proven journalism and PR competence to provide overspill capability for us across the board.
Salary: £250-£300 per day
Garnett Keeler Public Relations
Carshalton, Surrey, England
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Sub-editor
Sub-editor required for busy B2B publishing house.
Salary: D0E
Financial News Publishing
London, England
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Production coordinator
We’re looking for an enthusiastic editorial professional to help maximise our content delivery in both new and traditional media environments.
Salary: £27,404 pro rata
Consumers International
London, England
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Writing/marketing assistant
We are looking to hire a few well-written, social and entrepreneurial Cardiff residents who know their city inside and out.
Salary: Competitive
Yelp.co.uk
Cardiff, Wales
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News sub-editor
Digital Spy is seeking a News Sub-Editor to sub-edit copy across the site.
Salary: DoE
Digital Spy
Home-based position, All
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Senior reporter – Morning Advertiser
Want to work for a business-to-business magazine that is avidly read by all levels in the pub marketplace? William Reed Business Media currently has an exciting opportunity for a senior reporter to join the Morning Advertiser.
Salary: DoE
William Reed Business Media
Crawley, England
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Head of communication, PR and media
Our client, a major sport event organiser in Middle East requires an interim head of communication, PR & media in Doha, Qatar.
Salary: $Excellent tax free + benefits
Dreycott Kayeton Associates Ltd
Doha, Qatar, Middle East
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Head of broadcasting
Our client, a major sport event organiser in Middle East requires an interim head of broadcasting in Doha, Qatar.
Salary: $Excellent tax free + benefits
Dreycott Kayeton Associates Ltd
Doha, Qatar, Middle East
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Assistant editor – ITP.net
ITP.net, the Middle East’s leading IT news portal is looking for an assistant editor
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
UAE, Dubai
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Content writers
Adfero is looking for talented and enthusiastic writers to join its DirectNews division in our offices in Manchester and Leeds.
Salary: £16K
Adfero
Manchester and Leeds, England
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Bristol community manager
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: Competitve
Yelp
Bristol, England
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Brighton community manager!
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: Competitve
Yelp
Brighton, United Kingdom
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Editorial assistant/administrator
The position will involve editorial administrative duties, proofreading, copywriting, events research, taking email and telephone enquiries and liaising with an offshore data entry team.
Salary: DoE
Science Navigation Group
London, England
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Senior art editor
In this pivotal role you will design and produce quality issues of Simply Knitting in line with the brand image and publishing strategy. As the principal designer, you will be responsible for the quality and visual effectiveness.
Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Online content manager
headlineauto.co.uk is looking for a content manager with excellent accuracy and time management skills.
Salary: DoE
headlineauto.co.uk
London, England
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Edinburgh guerrilla marketing/PR guru
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: DOE
Yelp
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Writing/marketing assistant
Yelp (www.yelp.co.uk) is the leading website where locals write reviews of their favourite neighbourhood businesses. We are looking to hire a few well-written, social and entrepreneurial Belfast residents who know their city inside and out.
Salary: Competitve
Yelp
Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Assistant producer – online media
Travelzoo (Europe) Ltd is the European subsidiary of Travelzoo Inc. (NASDAQ: TZOO), a global Internet media company. We are now searching for an Assistant Producer to join our UK production team.
Salary: DoE
Travelzoo (Europe) Ltd
London, England
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Producer
This role requires a high level of editorial skills combined with a strong knowledge of client/campaign management
Salary: Competitive
Travelzoo (Europe) Ltd
London, England
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News editor
Portfolio Adviser is looking for an online News Editor to work on www.portfolio-adviser.com, one of the UK’s leading websites for wealth managers.
Salary: DoE (tax-free)
Portfolio Adviser
London, England
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Editorial/production assistant – Electronic Media
Progressive Digital Media Group is an international digital media company providing specialised integrated digital marketing solutions
Salary: £17K
Progressive Digital Media
London, England
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Online reporter
Progressive Digital Media Group is an international digital media company providing specialised integrated digital marketing solutions.
Salary: circa £20K
Progressive Digital Media
London, England
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Senior sub-editors
The National, the English-language newspaper based in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, is accepting applications for senior sub-editors.
Salary: DoE (tax-free)
The National
Abu Dhabi, UAE, Middle East
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European reporter
InfraNews is looking for a reporter to cover Europe. You will need to be able to write accurate and concise daily news, regularly source exclusive stories from a network of continental European contacts and have an interest in financial markets.
Salary: DoE
Inframation
London, England
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Staff reporter
Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal are seeking a versatile, experienced reporter to cover economic policy, politics and corporate news from Spain and Portugal.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones and Company
Madrid, Spain
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Reporter
Dow Jones Newswires is seeking to recruit a reporter to join its team covering UK small caps companies in London.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones and Company
London, England
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OJR: How nationally-owned local publishers can get ahead

The challenges facing locally and nationally owned publications are the subject of a post on the Online Journalism Review website by Robert Niles, who follows up on a previous post in which he questions the future of AOL’s hyperlocal start-up Patch.com and other national chains.

Niles ha previously claimed that locally-owned publications today have cost advantages which outweigh the “economies of scale” of national chains of local publishers. But pushed by a reader to come up with advantages for national chains which could make them more profitable, he puts forward two ideas as a starting point for further debate, shown in summary below.

National training

A smart, focused national training program could help reduce the time it takes a local editor to produce an engaging website. Local website publishers who don’t have access to such training will take longer to get up to speed.

Search engine optimization

A national chain can give its local publishers an advantage by arranging for aggressive cross-linking among its sites. That creates a potentially huge number of inbound links, helping push the chain’s sites ahead of its local competitors. In addition, by building a national brand for local news, the chain might be able to elicit more in-bound links to its sites from outside the network.

See his full post here…

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Inforrm Blog: Wayne Rooney and the public interest defence

Following the William Hague allegations sparked from posts within the blogging community last week, this weekend the media spotlight turned to Wayne Rooney as allegations relating to his private life were brought into the public domain by the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror, both appers accusing the footballer of having an affair with a prostitute.

In response, the International Forum for Responsible Media blog has posted an interesting analysis of the issues raised by the press coverage. These mainly centre on the distinction between a story which is argued to be ‘in’ the public interest and one which is simply ‘of’ public interest – the latter of which would not theoretically afford the same justification for publication.

What takes place between Mr Rooney and Ms Thompson behind the closed doors of a hotel bedroom is, at first sight, private. It relates to an indisputable area of private life: sexual relations. Under the general law and the clause 3 of the PCC Code, its publication requires justification in terms of the public interest.

Looking at the newspapers’ references to a public interest in their own reports, the blog argues that in this case the coverage fails to provide such justification.

The central justification appears to be the familiar one that this conduct exposes the hypocrisy of Mr Rooney’s “crafting” of “a brand of happy family life that’s helped win big-money sponsorships and endorsements”. There are a number of difficulties with this argument (…) What false public pronouncements are actually being shown to be false?  A “brand of happy family life” – even if “carefully crafted” – is not, in itself, a public statement about conduct or morality.

(…) This kind of assertion is a patently inadequate basis to justify splashing someone’s private life across the pages of the national press.

Another issue raised by the blog post is that of the right of individuals to an advance warning. The author refers with some concern to a statement in the Mail on Sunday’s report on the allegations which claims Rooney’s lawyers were aware but decided not to battle the allegation due to previous “revelations” in the media.

We do not know whether this is correct. If it is it is an unfortunate reflection on the state of English privacy law – where it is thought to be impossible to restrain the publication of patently private information because of previous press publicity. If, on the other hand, Mr Rooney was not given proper notice then this would be further support for the arguments being advanced by Max Mosley in Strasbourg in favour of a legal obligation to give advance notice.

See the full post here…

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Insert pun here…

This is without doubt a very serious crime story from WeAreCentralPA.com, but the headline did cause a childish giggle:

(via Common Sense Journalism)

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Brand Republic: Craigslist to censor adult ads

Interesting stance from classified listings website Craigslist on adverts for adult services, given recent debate around newspaper sex ads: the site has decided to censor such ads following growing legal pressure.

Full story on Brand Republic at this link…

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On The Media: The fate of Iraqi fixers

Fascinating audio on Iraqi fixers and their fate as US journalists and troops leave Iraq, courtesy of On The Media, focusing on Hussam Ali al-Mussawi, who has worked with titles including the San Francisco Chronicle and New York Times.

Full On the Media post at this link…

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