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Thirty-four 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

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
Home based, Russia
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Deputy editor
We are a small online media agency that owns and runs three successful websites in the financial services industry, and we are looking for another great mind to join our team in the fast-paced day-to-day running of the business from our Maida Vale hub.
Salary: £17k
Bridging and Commercial Ltd
London, England
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Corporate finance reporter
Bloomberg News seeks an experienced corporate bond market reporter in its London office.
Salary: Competitive + benefits
Bloomberg
London, England
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Sub-editor (Temporary)
Silicon.com is looking for an enthusiastic sub-editor to join its busy editorial team on a short term contract until the end of 2010.
Salary: DoE
CBS Interactive
London, England
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Publisher
Incisive’s technology division, publisher of brands including Computing, V3 and IThound plans to grow its business significantly in 2011 by focusing on the development of 2 of its products, BusinessGreen and the INQUIRER.
Salary: DoE
Incisive Media
London, England
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News editor – Investment Adviser
A news editor is needed to manage a news desk of three reporters on a fast-paced, weekly trade magazine and its website for the UK retail investment management sector.
Salary: DoE
FT
London, United Kingdom
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Deal reporter – mergers and acquisitions
Mergermarket’s research division is looking to hire an entry level deal reporter with strong foreign language skills to be based in London.
Salary: £18K
Mergermarket Ltd
London, England
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Online business editor
We are seeking a highly motivated, energetic and ambitious business editor who will play an active role in developing further our flagship brand, Feedinfo News Service.
Salary: DoE
Global Data Systems
Toulouse, France
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Editor
Time Out GCC is looking for a talented editor to head up the weekly Time Out Abu Dhabi magazine and related brand extensions.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Abu Dhabi, Dubai
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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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Correspondent/senior correspondent – Professional Pensions
Professional Pensions is looking for another top correspondent who can break news both the nationals and our competitors feel they cannot ignore…
Salary: DoE
Incisive Media
London, England
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Head of communities
‘The Center for Security Studies’ at ETH Zurich is looking for a head of communities to assist the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) in establishing expert communities in the field of international relations and security policy.
Salary: DoE
International Relations and Security Network (ISN), ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
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Teamlead information services
‘The Center for Security Studies’ at ETH Zurich is looking for a Team Leader Information Services.
Salary: DoE
International Relations and Security Network (ISN), ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
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Freelance financial reporters – Eastern Europe
Freelance reporters wanted – Eastern European countries
Salary: DoE
SNL Financial
Home based, Poland / Russia
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Freelance financial reporters – Turkey & Greece
Freelance reporters wanted – Turkey & Greece
Salary: DoE
SNL Financial
Home based in Turkey and Greece, Greece
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Community manager – Edinburgh
As the Edinburgh community manager, you’ll be a full-time Yelp employee at the helm of a vibrant, buzzing community of locals who drink, shop and play their way through the city via peer recommendations on Yelp.
Salary: Competitve
Yelp
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Community manager – Brighton
As the Brighton community manager, you’ll be a full-time Yelp employee at the helm of a vibrant, buzzing community of locals who drink, shop and play their way through the city via peer recommendations on Yelp.
Salary: Competitve
Yelp
Brighton, England
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Community manager – Bristol
As the Bristol community manager, you’ll be a full-time Yelp employee at the helm of a vibrant, buzzing community of locals who drink, shop and play their way through the city via peer recommendations on Yelp.
Salary: Competitve
Yelp
Bristol, England
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Games editor
Edge is looking for a talented and passionate games editor to join its editorial team.
Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Associate energy editor
Bloomberg BusinessWeek is looking for an associate energy editor who will lead the effort to create, curate, and synthesize content for BBW’s energy coverage.
Salary: Competitive + benefits
Bloomberg
London, England
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Reporter
Full-time reporter needed for a global industry trade title, The Insurance Insider. We are looking for an ambitious reporter keen to make their mark and regulalary break exclusive news.
Salary: Competitive
Insider Publishing
London, England
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Senior photo editor
We are now searching for an experienced in-house senior photo editor. The position will report into the vice president of production, Europe
Salary: DoE
Travelzoo (Europe) Ltd
London, England
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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 or Manchester, England
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Financial services journalist
We’re looking for a financial services journalist with at least two years expereince in equity trading and FOREX markets who might want to make a move into social media.
Salary: DoE
FreshNetworks
London, England
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News and features writer
This is an in-house journalist’s job, based at Media House, and is focused 100% on the production of top quality news and features copy for RAIL, Britain’s market-leading rail consumer and industry fortnightly magazine.
Salary: DoE
Bauer Media
Peterborough, England
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Senior reporter – The Grocer
The Grocer are looking for another great business journalist who can scoop the competition (including the nationals) to land exclusive stories from this fascinating and fast-moving sector.
Salary: DoE
William Reed Business Media
Crawley, England
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Associate editor – The Grocer
The Grocer is the biggest, most high-profile weekly business magazine in the UK, and we’re now looking for an associate editor to manage our extensive features coverage.
Salary: DoE
William Reed Business Media
Crawley, England
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Deputy editor/senior staff writer
We are looking for an experienced financial journalist, with a proven track record in breaking news and developing and writing features to join the team.
Salary: DoE
Incisive Media
London, England
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Market reporters
We are currently seeking two experienced news and market reporters/editors to join our Power team in London.
Salary: DoE
Platts
London, England
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Deputy editor
Masala! – the biggest-selling Bollywood celebrity weekly in the Middle East – is looking for a creative and talented deputy editor. Basic knowledge of Hindi is required.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
UAE, Dubai
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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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OJR: What Whrrl and sitckybits can do for journalism

Robert Hernandez takes an interesting look at two new web tools over on the Online Journalism Review website, offering his thoughts on how new social media technologies could be used by the news industry for ‘real-world’ user engagement.

The first tool, Whrrl, collects images and notes and groups them geographically, enabling an individual to share and view their activities on a map. Hernandez discusses its basic use, to share for example the experience of a birthday with those who could not be there in person. Now swap the word ‘birthday’ to ‘election’, he says.

Reporters and citizens are posting their experiences — comments, photos, videos, etc. — at polling sites, leaving a virtual marker filled with content for others to add or re-live. This would also work for a sporting event, a protest/rally or any news event where people gather in one location. Collectively, we can capture the moment in real-time with rich multimedia. This doesn’t replace the article or video piece, but can really enhance them.

The second tool is stickybits, which is a way of attaching digital content to everyday objects using a sticker barcode which when scanned with a smartphone reveals the experiences of those who have already used the technology there.

Imagine going to a polling place where people can scan a sticker to read or leave messages. The only way to get that unique experience from that polling place is to be at that location.

From news to reviews, we could possibly embed our stories on anything and anywhere. And, more importantly, we can get user engagement. We’re not talking about from behind a computer, we’re talking about out in real life.

See his full post here…

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Phone-hacking on Dispatches: a good documentary but not enough new evidence

Following the Twitter conversation around last night’s Channel 4 Dispatches on phone-hacking, Andy Coulson and the News of the World, it seems that for those already following the story there was insufficient new evidence.

But for those less aware of the ongoing claims and the series of investigations that have been conducted, the programme did a great job of putting the most recent claims – sparked by the New York Times’ reports in September – into context with what has gone before, starting with Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire’s arrests in 2006.

Dispatches had comments from Paul McMullen, a journalist working at the News of the World when Coulson joined, and an unidentified source who worked under former editor Coulson while he was deputy editor.

Both alleged that phone-hacking did not begin and end with Goodman and Mulcaire. McMullan told the programme that there was surprise in the newsroom following Goodman’s arrest and sentencing that no one else had been charged.

Of 13 people who worked at the paper during Coulson’s editorship or time as deputy editor and have spoken to Dispatches, not one believes that Goodman was a lone “bad apple”.

Questioning Coulson’s “collective amnesia” and rulings by the Met Police and other industry groups that Goodman and Mulcaire were the only people involved in the practice may not be new, but Dispatches did a good job of raising some new points, as yet largely uncovered by the mainstream media. In particular, the programme spoke with a non-celebrity potential victim of phone-hacking, who explained how difficult it has been to get information from the police and her mobile phone operator to check if she had been hacked.

Concerns were raised by interviewees, including Brian Paddick, who is calling for a judicial review of the Met’s 2006 inquiry, and DCMS select committee member Adam Price, who had suggested that News International’s Rebekah Brooks should be made to give evidence to its phone-hacking inquiry, that whatever the truth behind the allegations about the extend of the practice, the way in which investigations by government and the Metropolitan police have been conducted suggests that the News of the World may be “above the law”.

Tom Watson MP, who worked on the department for culture, media and sport’s select committee inquiry into allegations against the NOTW, told Dispatches that he considered giving up politics after a senior News International journalist told him that he would be pursued by its titles after he called for Tony Blair’s resignation in 2006 because of the support of News International for the then PM.

Watson has now published a letter on his website written to the Prime Minister and asking him to make a statement in parliament this week about the allegations against his communications director Coulson.

Coulson has repeatedly denied knowledge of phone-hacking at the News of the World and told Dispatches he had nothing to add in response to its broadcast.

Lack of press coverage at the time of Goodman’s arrest suggested similar goings-on at other papers, said Dispatches’ host Peter Oborne last night. But given the Daily Mail columnist’s involvement and the featured commentary from former News of the World journalists, Channel 4 and the Guardian, has last night’s broadcast created a more united front amongst the press to investigate its own state of affairs?

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David Higgerson: Tell your readers about failed FOI requests

A blog post by David Higgerson, head of multimedia for Trinity Mirror Regionals, this week addresses the issue of FOI request refusals and what he thinks journalists should do if they hit a brick wall in their attempts to get information.

He argues that it is important for journalists to not only try to get the information for their readers, but to inform their audience of their endeavours if the material itself cannot be released or reported.

Some see journalistic use of FOI as reporters just finding ‘easy leads’. But if reporters and journalists are working on behalf of their readers, then surely it makes sense to tell readers when they can’t report information

See his full post here…

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Local TV operators criticise new service YouView in letter to Times

Plans for YouView, a new TV service offering on-demand and internet-connected features from BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BT, TalkTalk and Arqiva, have been criticised by local TV operators and production firms.

Geraldine Allinson, chairwoman of KM Group and Helen Philpot, managing director of north Lincolnshire TV channel Channel 7 CIC, were amongst the signatories of a letter to the Times late last week that said YouView had been “parachuted” into the “new and exciting market” of internet-connected television sets.

The full list of signatories:

• Peter Williams, Peter Williams Television;
• Jim Deans Global Digital Broadcast/Devlin Media;
• Graham Cowling, TVChichester;
• Rodney Hearth, the UK Entertainment Channel;
• Geoff Kershaw, Channel Green TV;
• Alan Cummings, Channel 9 TV/UC Business;
• Marilyn Hyndman, Northern Visions / NvTv;
• Dave Rushton, Institute of Local Television;
• Daniel Cass, SIX TV;

Jaqui Devereux, United for Local Television.

The objections from the group echo those made against the BBC’s proposals to expand its local video content, which were rejected by the BBC Trust in November 2008.

The letter says that YouView could “hijack the fledgling local TV market” and calls for a thorough competition investigation of the platform:

Collectively these organisations control nearly three quarters of all television viewing and the entire digital terrestrial TV transmission network.

The BBC and its partners claim that YouView offers a common set of technical standards that will help everyone get the best out of this exciting new world. But it can equally be interpreted as an attempt by some of the biggest players in the business to hijack this fledgling market, impose their own vision of how it will operate and dictate the viewers’ experience.

The joint venture partners will control all aspects of the platform and its operational policies. If any third parties wish to participate, they will have to do so on the terms dictated to them by the UK’s largest free-to-air broadcasters.

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Ripe from the Vine: lessons in journalism

Photograph: Dean O'Brien

Today Jeremy Vine is top of the broadcast journalism food chain. He presents an eponymous  show on BBC Radio Two every lunchtime, fronts Panorama on BBC One every week and plays the all-important graphics role in the BBC’s Election Coverage. But it was all so different in 1986 when Vine started our as a bright-eyed 21-year-old trainee on the Coventry Evening Telegraph.

Opening Coventry University’s Coventry Conversation series last night, he let the university’s journalism students in on a few secrets (www.coventry.ac.uk/coventryconversations)

Vine had never been to Coventry before his first day on the ‘Tele’ thirty four years ago. He was thrown in at the deep end – sent off to report the courts and come back with story return with a story an a picture. “I had to go up with photographer, John Potter and work out who the defendant was and say, “that’s him! He was about 19 and made off with his family so we had to run after him.

“I was laughing thinking, ‘This is probably the most exciting thing I have done in my life!’ ”

But Vine was very quickly brought back down to earth after he filed his story.

“[The defendant] had run up to a woman in a park saying, ‘I want sex’, so that was my intro”. But news editor Geoff Grimmer told Vine, “That’s not a story because everyone wants sex. The story is that she fought him off with a shoe.”

It didn’t get much better. On another court case, the defendant collared Vine in the corridor and spun him a good yarn about the crime. Trouble was, it was somewhat different to his evidence in court. Vine wrote it up as gospel only for the news editor to toss it in the rubbish bin. Another painful  learning experience. “I got some pretty good carpetings for getting stories wrong,” he admitted.

“The most heinous crime was for someone’s name to change halfway through the story or in the lists of divorces or TV licence evaders. They also never wanted to see the words ‘incident’ or ‘situation’, if it’s a crash it’s a crash.”

He did learn though, and kept his eyes and ears open and delivered some front page splashes, including two very negative stories about the very university in which he was speaking (then Lanchester Polytechnic). Current Coventry Telegraph editor Darren Parkin, who is returning the ‘Tele’ to its roots, was on hand to present Vine with some of the broadcaster’s cuttings from the time. He looked humbled to receive them.

Vine said two of the biggest stories he covered on the Telegrpah were Coventry City winning the FA Cup and a rapist on the prowl in the City Centre. “At the end of the day I could see my story coming off the press 1,000 times a second. It was an amazing feeling seeing your name in print.”

Not amazing enough though.

Vine moved from ‘Tele’ to Telly, and to the BBC in 1988 for a news traineeship. News reporting followed, then Today on Radio Four, BBC Belfast, a job as the BBC’s Johannesburg correspondent, and then, in 2000, the big one: presenting ‘Newsnight’.

There was, however, already a Jeremy on that show (Paxman), and there was only really room for one.

“I was the other Jeremy and it was his show,” Vine recalled. The other Jeremy got the big ones, but Vine did some sterling journalism on Newsnight before Radio Two called in 2003 and he became the Jimmy Young of the new era.

For the 18-year-old wannabe hacks in the audience that night, there were plenty of good lessons in that Conversation. Words ripe from the Vine.

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TheMediaBriefing: What news publishers can learn from supermarkets

Patrick Smith maps out “the [Tesco] Clubcard model for news”:

To stretch analogy out to news, what’s for sale on your shelves? The kind of thing you think consumers are after, or what you know they want to buy? In a print age there is only hope and focus grouping: the call is made by the editor and publisher each day what goes into the paper both editorially and commercially, largely based on flimsy research and an instinctive understanding of a title’s brand.

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Knight Center maps Mexico gangs’ violence against journalists

The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is tracking incidents of violence against journalists working in Mexico using Google Maps.

The map identifies direct attacks on media and journalists during 2010, demonstrating the wave of violence that has shaken the Mexican press. Many of these attacks are linked to organised crime and the majority of these cases still remain unpunished.

Last month Mexican newspaper El Diario published an open letter to drug cartels operating in the country pleading with them to end violence against journalists.

Click on the pins to show more information.

View Knight Center map of threats against journalism in Mexico in a larger map

Full map at this link via Google Maps…

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#followjourn: @paulcockerton – Paul Cockerton/web editor

Who? Paul Cockerton, web editor for Newsquest, “looking after the websites for one daily, one paid-for weekly and four free weekly newspapers.”

Where? Paul has his own blog at this link.

Twitter? @paulcockerton

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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