What’s in a newspaper’s name? Well, quite a lot if you follow the case currently being fought over the title of Zimbabwean newspaper NewsDay. Two publishers who used the name 15 years ago for their title are attempting to prise the name, or compensation, away from new owners Alpha Media Holdings.
Full story on NewsDay at this link…
Tags: newsday, Newspapers, Zimbabwe
Will Lewis will be joined at News International by former “key lieutenants” Chris Lloyd and Rhidian Wynn Davies next week, reports MediaGuardian.
Lloyd will be director of editorial operations, while Wynn Davies will be director of editorial development.
Lewis brought the pair to Telegraph Media Group and all three were involved with the move to an integrated newsroom in Victoria and the digital project Euston Partners. Lloyd and Wynn Davies left TMG shortly after Lewis earlier this year.
Full story on MediaGuardian.co.uk at this link…
Tags: Chris Lloyd, Management Change, News International, Rhidian Wynn Davies, Will Lewis, William Lewis
An interesting look at blogging journalists and their relationship with commenters by Mediating Conflict, following BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew’s comments on Twitter that he stopped his BBC blog because of the comments left on it.
There seems to be something of a backlash against the value of comments on blogs at the BBC. Or perhaps it might be more accurate to say that existing reservations about comments on blogs are beginning to surface.
Only last month, the BBC’s political editor, Nick Robinson, described them as “the biggest problem” with his Newslog blog.
Now cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew has revealed he stopped blogging at the BBC because his posts were “always full of appalling comments“. Agnew now publishes a column on the BBC website instead and says he simply wouldn’t write a blog open to comments any more – “even with moderation in place“.
Full post on Mediating Conflict at this link…
Tags: BBC, blogging, commenting, Jonathan Agnew, social media
Who? Rachel Wilson, online journalist, blogger and editor of Environmental News Online.
Where? Environmental News Online
Twitter? @rachelwilson
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.
Tags: #followjourn, rachel wilson
Blogging: Daily Blog Tips offers its three top writing tips for bloggers looking to ensure a quality post every time. Tipster: Rachel McAthy.
To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.
Tags: blogging, journalism tips, tip
Journalism.co.uk caught up with speakers and delegates at last night’s Frontline Club event on data journalism to ask what makes a good data journalist and what’s behind the current popularity of infographics, data visualisation and data amongst journalists and trainers.
Podcast: Download
Tags: data, Data journalism, Events, jpod, Podcast
Trust in journalists has plummeted over the past seven years, according to a survey conducted by YouGov for Prospect Magazine.
YouGov has been assessing people’s trust in various communicators, decision makers and service providers since 2003, and the forthcoming edition of Prospect compares the polling agency’s latest findings with its first.
Unsurprisingly, politicians have taken a hit since the Iraq war and trade union leaders won’t be going to the prom with the captain of the football team any time soon.
But there has also been an alarming fall in the ratings for journalists. In 2003, ITV journalists had a trust rating of a little over 80 per cent. That figure had fallen by 33 percentage points by August this year, putting BBC news journalists in the lead.
But the BBC might not be getting asked to babysit or look after anybody’s car: trust in its news journalists has dropped 21 points since 2003, down from 81 to 60 per cent.
And it’s a similar story elsewhere: “upmarket” newspapers (Times, Telegraph, Guardian) have suffered a 24 point knock down to 41 per cent in the latest figures; mid-markets (Mail, Express) are down from around 35 to 21 per cent; the red-tops from 14 to just 10 per cent.
By comparison, leading Labour politicians scored 23 per cent, leading Liberals 27 per cent and leading Tories, who were the only group on the survey to win an increase in trust, went from a meagre 20 per cent in 2003 to 29 per cent now.
YouGov’s surveys have consistently found more trust in local, rather than national professionals. GPs, teachers, police constables and local MPs are apparently deemed more trustworthy.
Unfortunately, the polls don’t include data for local journalists. Does the tendency to trust local professionals extend to the local hacks? Are there areas where people trust their hyperlocal start-up more than the age-old local rag?
Feel free to chime in with your own opinions in the comments thread or on Twitter with #trustinjournos. Even though most of you are journalists yourselves…
Tags: Hyperlocal, Local, Prospect Magazine, public trust, survey, YouGov
Interesting video from Beet.tv on the history of the International Herald Tribune and how the title has changed since its website and some of its print pages were combined with the New York Times to create a more global edition. Beet.tv talks to IHT executive editor Alison Smale:
Full post on Beet.tv at this link…
Tags: IHT, International Herald Tribune, New York Times
Paywall technology venture Journalism Online will see its Press+ system introduced to non-profit news sites in the US as part of a deal with the Knight Foundation.
The first 10 sites that receive grants from the Foundation will not have to share revenue from the system with Journalism Online for the first year. Hyperlocal professional news site the New Haven Independent is the first to sign up.
Full story on E&P at this link…
Tags: Journalism Online, Knight Foundation, paid content, pay walls, paywalls, us
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) has a great line up of speakers for today’s PICNIC conference – “a renowned festival-cum-conference that blurs the lines between creativity, science, technology, business and society”.
The programme features a keynote speech from Jeff Jarvis, director of the interactive programme at City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, hot on the heels of CUNY’s new entrepreneurial journalism plans.
Mark Glaser, executive editor of MediaShift, will focus on the successes and failures of traditional media when it comes to digital; while new City University London lecturer Paul Bradshaw will set out a journalism curriculum for the 21st century.
The full programme is available via the EJC’s event page and you can watch a live stream of the day’s events below:
Tags: ejc, European Journalism Centre, Events, picnic, picnic10
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