#followjourn: @nmcintosh – Neil McIntosh/editor

Who? Neil McIntosh, editor of europe.wsj.com, website of the Wall Street Journal Europe.

Where? At europe.wsj.com, and on his own site, Complete Tosh

Twitter? @nmcintosh

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Twenty-one new media, editorial, 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

Website editor
Expansion-minded trade title publisher in Surrey seeks skilled online journalist.
Salary: DoE
Advantage Publishing Ltd
Reigate, England
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Content manager – personal finance
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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SEO Content Manager
MailOnline is looking for an SEO Content Manager 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: DoE
Associated Newspapers Ltd
London, England
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German freelancers
This leading online news agency is looking for freelance writers who are fluent in German.
Salary: £8 per hour
Adfero
Flexible, England
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Trainee news reporter
Law Business Research are currently recruiting for a trainee news reporter for their Latin Lawyer publication.
Salary: DoE
Law Business Research
London, England
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Production editor
Computer Arts is the world’s best selling creative magazine for digital artists and professional designers. 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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Team leader – messaging
We are looking for a Team Leader Messaging with a solid journalistic background, at least 5 years international experience also within a large organisation and proven leadership abilities.
Salary: Market rate
SOS-Kinderdorf International
Innsbruck or Vienna, Austria, Rest of Europe
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Staff writer
We are looking for a talented Staff Writer to join .net, the world’s best-selling magazine for web design and development.
Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Managing editor
We are an established, fast-expanding client publishing company seeking a dynamic individual for a broad editorial role.
Salary: £25K-£30K
Newsdesk Media Group
London, England
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Assistant/deputy editor
AccountingWEB.co.uk, the UK’s leading online professional community for accountants, is looking for an ambitious business journalist to join us as assistant/deputy editor.
Salary: £16K – £19K
AccountingWEB
Bristol, England
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Listings writer
Listings writers provide editorial content and supporting technical metadata for electronic programme guides including Sky and Virgin, for catch-up and video-on-demand technologies, and for websites and the press.
Salary: £19.5K
Red Bee Media
London, England
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Content manager – motoring
We are currently looking for a content manager to join Adfero to work on our motoring website and take a lead role in establishing the website as a leading website for the motoring industry.
Salary: £19K
Adfero
London, England
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Content manager – health and beauty
We are looking for health and beauty content manager to oversee the launch of our new health, beauty and wellbeing website.
Salary: £19K
Adfero
London, England
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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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Research and reporting internship
A two-week internship focussed primarily on the researcher/reporter role within Adfero’s DirectNews division.
Salary: Unpaid internship, extraordinary travel expenses paid
Adfero
Manchester, England
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Reporter – MarketScope
MarketScope, Standard and Poors’ live equity newswire is looking for a reporter to provide active real-time coverage of news, comments and views on European stocks.
Salary: DoE
Standard and Poors
London, England
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Company news correspondent – technology specialist
Reuters Amsterdam is looking for a dynamic journalist to cover technology, media and telecoms in the Netherlands.
Salary: DoE
Thomson Reuters
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Freelance writers wanted – all topics
Suite101, the premier place for writers to attract million of readers and publish for pay online, 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
London, All
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Reporter – Morning Advertiser
The Morning Advertiser, the leading weekly magazine for the pub sector, is looking for a reporter to bring in scoops galore.
Salary: DoE
William Reed Business Media
Crawley, England
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Deputy features editor – Morning Advertiser
The Morning Advertiser, the leading weekly magazine for the pub sector, is looking for a deputy features editor.
Salary: DoE
William Reed Business Media
Crawley, England
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International freelancers
SHOP magazine are looking for freelancers with ideas for features, news stories and interviews, based around fashion, shopping and culture.
Salary: DoE
SHOP magazine
Various, All
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allmediascotland: New business magazine launched in Scotland

A new business magazine has been launched in Scotland. BQ Scotland is edited by Kenny Kemp, who is a Scottish Press Award winner for business and financial writing.

Published by Room 501, BQ already has north east and Yorkshire editions.

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Reuters: Google forced to pay €5,000 damages to former convict over search suggestions

Google has been ordered by a French court to pay €5,000 damages to a former convict after the search engine suggested words including “rape”, “rapist” and “prison” when his name was typed.

According to the report, the claimant, who has not been named, served time in prison after being convicted of corrupting a minor.

Google has said it will appeal the decision, which was published earlier this month, according to Reuters’ report.

The man argued that the words produced by the suggestion function on the search engine were damaging to his reputation.

Full story from Reuters at this link…

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NYTimes: Apple dominate technology news, suggests Pew study

The Times’ Media Decoder Blog: Analysis from the US-based Pew Research Center suggests Apple and its products dominate US technology news reports with 15.1 per cent of tech articles surveyed by the centre over the past year focusing primarily on the company.

It’s not as if Microsoft lacks for public relations people. But Apple is especially effective at seizing journalists’ attention, said Amy S. Mitchell, the deputy director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, citing the anticipation for new devices and Apple’s “very public way of releasing products.”

Full story on NYTimes.com at this link…

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#followjourn: @sohear – Steve O’Hear/technology journalist

Who? Steve O’Hear, “Technology pundit and all round chancer. Contributing Editor at TechCrunch EU, blogger at last100.com, ex-ZDNet hack. Filmmaker.”

Where? Steve has his own website, Ohear.net, and his work can be found at TechCrunch.

Twitter? @sohear

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – social media basics

Social Media: A back-to-basics guide to social media tools for journalists and communicators from the BBC’s college of journalism. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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Nick Davies: Data, crowdsourcing and the ‘immeasurable confusion’ around Julian Assange

Investigative journalist Nick Davies chipped in with his thoughts on crowdsourcing data analysis by news organisations at this week’s Frontline Club event. (You can listen to a podcast featuring the panellists at this link)

For Davies, who brokered the Guardian’s involvement in the WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Logs, such stories suggest that asking readers to trawl through data for stories doesn’t work:

I haven’t seen any significant analysis of that raw material (…) There were all sorts of angles that we never got to because there was such much of it. For example, there was a category of material that was recorded by the US military as being likely to create negative publicity. You would think somebody would search all those entries and put them together and compare them with what actually was put out in press releases.

I haven’t seen anyone do anything about the treatment of detainees, which is recorded in there.

We got six or seven good thematic stories out of it. I would think there are dozens of others there. There’s some kind of flaw in the theory that crowdsourcing is a realistic way of converting data into information and stories, because it doesn’t seem to be happening.

And Davies had the following to say about WikiLeaks head Julian Assange:

We warned him that he must not put this material unredacted onto the WikiLeaks website because it was highly likely to get people killed. And he never really got his head around that. But at the last moment he did a kind of word search through these 92,00 documents looking for words like source or human intelligence and withdrew 15,000 docs that had those kind of words in. it’s a very inefficient way of making those documents safe and I’m worried about what’s been put up on there.

He then kind of presented the withholding these 15,000 documents as some kind of super-secret, but it’s already been released (…) The amount of confusion around Julian is just immeasurable. In general terms you could say he’s got other kinds of material coming through WikiLeaks and there’s all sorts of possibilities about who might be get involved in processing it. Personally I feel much happier pursuing the phone hacking, which is a relatively clean story that Julian’s not involved in.

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