#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – subtitling videos

Video: Universal Subtitles is a free and easy way to subtitle your videos making them more accessible and open to other languages through translations by viewers. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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Twenty-six great new media, editorial, communications and PR vacancies 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
Are you interested in extending your reach and showcasing your work? With over 28 million readers worldwide, Suite101 is the ideal platform to help build your portfolio and profile.
Salary: Lifetime royalties plus bonuses and incentives
Suite101.com
London, England
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Staff writer
Staff writer at Fund Strategy
Salary: DoE
Centaur Media plc
London, United Kingdom
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News editor
Journalism.co.uk seeks web and multimedia-literate news editor
Salary: DoE
Mousetrap Media Ltd
Brighton, England
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Web feature writer
Progressive Digital Media Group is an international digital media company providing specialised integrated digital marketing solutions
Salary: £22K DoE
Progressive Digital Media
London, England
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Editor – Ahlan! Magazine
ITP is looking for a dynamic, organized and passionate editor for the biggest selling celebrity magazine in Dubai. You will have at least five years publishing experience and be obsessed with the hottest celebrity news from Brangelina and Bieber.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Dubai Media City, Dubai
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Editor – Caterer Middle East
ITP Business is looking for an editor for Caterer Middle East, a monthly B2B magazine for chefs, food and beverage directors, and restaurant managers in the GCC.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Dubai Media City, Dubai
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Editor – Time Out Abu Dhabi
Time Out GCC is looking for a talented editor to head up the weekly Time Out Abu Dhabi magazine and related brand extensions. Prior experience on a magazine/publication of international standing is a prerequisite of this role.
Salary: DoE
ITP Publishing Group
Abu Dhabi, UAE, Middle East
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Senior editorial position
Are you a well-known journalist in the digital media sector, with good knowledge of emerging business models and hot companies? If so we’d like you to join our team, to work on our cutting-edge business intelligence service, StrategyEye.
Salary: DoE
StrategyEye
London, England
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Junior content manager
IT security company AVG is looking for a junior content manager with sparkling writing and blogging skills. They will work alongside the head of content on working up story angles and writing blogs for AVG’s social media team.
Salary: £25,000 DoE
AVG
London, All
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Digital staff writer
We are looking for a digital staff writer to produce creative and engaging regional email news bulletins and contribute rolling business news to the Insider Media web hub.
Salary: DoE
Insider Media
Manchester, England
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Deputy art editor
Take on a new challenge and become deputy art editor on Total Guitar, Europe’s best selling guitar magazine.
Salary: £competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Host
World Radio Switzerland is seeking for a host for its morning program
Salary: DoE
World Radio Switzerland
Geneva, Switzerland
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Associate editor
dealReporter, a global newswire focused on risked arbitrage and special situations, is looking to hire a convertible bonds associate editor.
Salary: Competitive + benefits
Mergermarket Ltd
London or New York, England / USA
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Deputy editor
We require a deputy editor to work with the editor to ensure that each issue of The Strad is produced to the magazine’s high standards, on schedule, and to assist in driving forward the brand’s strategy and continuous development.
Salary: DoE
The Strad
London, England
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Feature writer
Feature writer who can research and write top-class content across our range of titles
Salary: £21K-£22K
Progressive Digital Media
London, England
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Grants manager
IPI is seeking to hire an experienced grant manager responsible for the day-to-day management (administration, application and distribution process) of the IPI Grant Innovation Online News Project
Salary: DoE
International Press Institute
Vienna, Rest of Europe
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Deputy editor
Are you ready to take on the next big challenge in your editorial career? If so, FuturePlus – Future’s dedicated customer publishing agency – is looking for you!
Salary: £ competitive with excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
London, England
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Brussels correspondent
Specialist writer with the inside track on EU politics and institutions. A Brussels-based freelance to provide decisive regular coverage and top-level interviews.
Salary: DoE
Public Servant magazine/PublicServiceEurope.com
Newcastle-under-Lyme, England
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Online business reporter
To provide pacy news and feature coverage of business activity in the EU. Knowledge of EU politics and institutions. Based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Salary: DoE
Public Servant magazine/PublicServiceEurope.com
Newcastle-under-Lyme, England
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News editor
A challenging role for a specialist reporter with a first-class track record and a passion for politics and public services.
Salary: DoE
Public Servant magazine
Newcatle-under-Lyme, England
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News reporter – HSJ/Nursing Times
We need a reporter with at least two years experience to join our nine strong combined news desk.
Salary: DoE
Emap 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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Market reporter/editor
We are currently seeking an experienced news and market reporter/editor to join the electricity team in our Power group in London. Responsibilities will include market and news coverage on both a real-time and daily basis.
Salary: DoE
Platts
London, England
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Senior reporter – Hedge Funds Review
Incisive Media are looking for a talented journalist to write news and features for a market leading publication.
Salary: DoE
Incisive Media
London, England
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Industry freelancer
Business Monitor International, the global leader in emerging markets analysis, is looking for freelance business writers to produce a portfolio of Company Profile Reports
Salary: £20 p/h
Business Monitor International
London, England
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Freelance content providers
Freelance content writers required to produce basic web content. Work is available immediately for experienced online content writers with a clear understanding of plain English and basic knowledge of SEO.
Salary: DoE
PDB UK
Location based, Russia
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#followjourn: @hendopolis – Neil Henderson/home duty editor

Who? Neil Henderson, BBC home duty editor.

Where? The BBC, and Henderson’s personal blog, Reflections of The Hendo.

Twitter? @hendopolis

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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Is FOI the tool of the lazy journalist?

We ask the question in response to a blog post from the other side of the equation on the site We Love Local Government, which has published its plans for a ‘Lazy Journalist Index’, rating those journalists who, from a local government communications’ perspective, are “drains on the public purse”.

Full post at this link…

But as one commenter points out:

It’s not about local (or central) government deciding what’s best for us to know, but taxpayers – and that includes journalists – being able to decide and ask for themselves.

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Guardian: Murdoch and Jobs teaming up for iPad newspaper

The Guardian reports that Murdoch’s News Corporation is thought to be working with Apple to launch its new iPad newspaper, called ‘the Daily’, later this month.

According to the report, the newspaper will combine “a tabloid sensibility with a broadsheet intelligence” and that there is no print or web edition planned.

According to the US elite fashion industry journal Women’s Wear Daily, the Murdoch-Jobs “newspaper” will be run from the 26th floor of the News Corp offices in New York, where 100 journalist have been hired, including Pete Picton, an online editor from the Sun, as one of three managing editors. The editor of the Daily has not been announced, but observers are assuming it will be Jesse Angelo, the managing editor of the New York Post and rising star in the News Corp firmament.

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Guardian: Analysing data is the future for journalists, says Tim Berners-Lee

Speaking in response to recent releases of data by the UK government, Tim Berners-Lee, father of the world wide web, says:

The responsibility needs to be with the press. Journalists need to be data-savvy. It used to be that you would get stories by chatting to people in bars, and it still might be that you’ll do it that way some times.

But now it’s also going to be about poring over data and equipping yourself with the tools to analyse it and picking out what’s interesting. And keeping it in perspective, helping people out by really seeing where it all fits together, and what’s going on in the country.

Agree or disagree?

Full story at this link on Guardian.co.uk…

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Jon Slattery: ‘You can slice the salami only so many times,’ warns ex-Argus man

Former Brighton Argus deputy editor Frank le Duc guest posts on Jon Slattery’s blog about the recent strikes at the Argus and other Newsquest titles, and about the challenges facing regional publishers from new local competition.

The difficulty for companies like Newsquest is that their profits are not coming from a resurgence in advertising revenues but a ruthless cutting of costs.

Newsquest has used a salami-slicing technique which has its limitations. You can slice the salami only so many times before there’s no meat left.

Full post at this link…

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WSJ: Chinese blogger conference cancelled due to pressure from authorities

An annual blogging conference in Shanghai was cancelled over the weekend due to pressure from the authorities, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

The Chinese Blogger Conference reportedly normally attracts online commentators, digital artists and entrepreneurs, many of whom are said to be critical of government censorship. The decision to cancel is “the latest sign of tightening limits in China on free expression” WSJ reports.

This year, organizers waited until four days ahead of the two-day conference’s planned start on Saturday to announce the venue, an office building in Shanghai’s Xuhui District, near Shanghai Jiaotong University. But the planned hosts reneged late last week owing to pressure from authorities not to let their venue be used for the conference, according to one of the organizers.

Read WSJ’s full report here.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – check your language

Writing: Check the originality of the language in an article or blog post with Wordcounter, which will tell you which words you overuse. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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Brighton Argus: Twitter account and strike blog boost picket line protests

Today journalists from the Newsquest-owned Brighton Argus took to the picket line for the second day of strikes, in protest at plans to relocate their subbing operations to Southampton and the loss of seven jobs at the title.

The strike action on both days went beyond the picket line in Brighton, with campaigning staff using social media to spread the word. The group produced a Twitter account @argus_strike, posting videos, pictures and comments throughout the action.

There was also a Argus strike blog set up in the lead up to the action, featuring information on why the staff were striking, campaign links as well as vox-pops with readers. Web editor Jo Wadsworth even called on the title’s community correspondents to support the action by not crossing a virtual picket line, and postponing any submissions to the site until the weekend.

The sub-editors made redundant say they were originally told today would be their last day, but told Journalism.co.uk yesterday they may be asked to work on for another two to four weeks to help with the movement of production down to Southampton.

Members of the National Union of Journalists, local politicians and other supporters stood outside the offices in the south-east town, with the number of journalists estimated to reflect around three quarters of the editorial team at the picket’s peak.

Journalism.co.uk produced this video report, speaking to members of the union and those losing their jobs.

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