Channel 4 News: Benjamin Cohen’s life torn open by Wired

Benjamin Cohen, technology editor at Channel 4 News, has blogged about the experience of being sent the latest, personalised edition of Wired magazine.

Well, personalised for some. “Opinion formers” around the UK have been sent a copy of Wired, titled “Your life torn open”, with personal information about them splashed over the front cover. Cohen was shocked by the information that they printed – and it is shocking at first. But then it is all publically available through Facebook, Twitter, Companies House and the Land Registry.

What’s shocking though is seeing all of this printed in black and white (or yellow in this case). Everything was available from Facebook, Twitter, Company House and the Land Registry but it shows the information is so readily available. It also shows how powerful these resources can be for private detectives or government agents.

Read his post in full here…

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Thirty-two new new media, journalism and editorial 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

Senior/Executive producer – Online media
Based in London, the senior/executive Producer 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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International account manager
As International account manager you will have an exciting opportunity to work for the UK magazine industry’s foremost international sales team.
Salary: DoE
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Online producer
Bdonline, the UK’s leading architecture website, is looking for a web producer to join the editorial team of a very busy trade publication.
Salary: Competitive
UBMi Ltd
London, England
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Acting editor (maternity cover)
A great opportunity to join a progressive media company that is experiencing growth and undergoing exciting changes.
Salary: DoE
Columbus Travel Media
Bromley, England
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Senior writer
We are seeking a senior writer to write and engage with digital content, both on the website and in off-site social media environments.
Salary: DoE
Zone Content Ltd
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Assange: The US cannot take down WikiLeaks

If you’re a whistleblower and you have information that’s important, we will accept it, we will defend you and we will publish it.

This was the message from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in an interview on CBS News’ 60 Minutes, where he also insisted that the US does not have the technology to take the WikiLeaks site down.

Just the way our technology is constructed, the way the internet is constructed. It’s quite hard to stop things reappearing. So, we’ve had attacks on particular domain names. Little pieces of infrastructure knocked out. But we now have some 2,000 fully independent in every way web sites, where we’re publishing around the world.

In the interview, Assange also challenges the idea that WikiLeaks goes after certain parties.

We don’t go after. That’s a bit of a misconception. We don’t go after a particular country. We don’t go after a particular organizational group. We just stick to our promise of publishing the material that is likely to have a significant impact.

He also defended the organisation’s harm minimization process, although admitted that “it is absolutely impossible” to say that nothing WikiLeaks ever publishes will result in harm.

Read Journalism.co.uk’s interview with former WikiLeaks in-house journalist James Ball, who worked for the group on the preparation and release of the US embassy cables, at this link.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – teaching multimedia

Teaching journalism: Poynter’s Katy Culver has put together some examples for journalism tutors of great uses of multimedia in news as well as tools to demonstrate these to students, as part of a new column on how to ‘tech your teaching’ and bring new tools into the classroom. Tipster: Rachel McAthy.

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Egypt: BBC Arabic on keeping the story alive after the internet has died

Earlier today it was reported that connection to the internet in Egypt, where anti-government protests have being taking place, has been cut.

We spoke to Carine Torbey, a journalist with BBC Arabic, to find out how the broadcaster is keeping up to date with events from inside Egypt. She talks in the audio player below about how comments from those outside the country and more traditional forms of reporting are keeping the story alive, and the impact of the internet blackout on the flow of user-generated content.

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#jpod: The week’s top news stories from Journalism.co.uk, 28 January 2011

Listen below for this week’s news round-up from Journalism.co.uk news reporter Rachel McAthy and sign up to our iTunes podcast feed for future audio.

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Tune in next week for the return of TNTJ

After a short spell in the wilderness, Journalism.co.uk’s Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists blog (TNTJ) will be active again from next week.

TNTJ is a great place for young journalists to make their voice heard, either by responding to the blog’s monthly debate topics, cross-posting content from their own blogs or flagging up content elsewhere that adds to the conversation.

Next week is also Hyperlocal Week over on the Wannabe Hacks site. To coincide with that we’ll be running a hyperlocal-focused debate this month on TNTJ, so start thinking small.

If you are under 30 and want to register for TNTJ, simply follow this link. If you are already a TNTJ member, simply carry on as normal.

If you are interested in helping with organising or promoting TNTJ please get in contact via joel [at] journalism.co.uk or @joelmgunter.

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paidContent: News Corp’s ‘iPad paper’ the Daily to launch on 2 Feb

According to paidContent, News Corporation’s new iPad publication, the Daily, will be launched on 2 Feb, a little later than previously rumoured.

An invitation sent out yesterday by News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch revealed that the Daily will be launched at the Guggenheim museum in New York.

Steve Jobs, now on medical leave, was to appear with Murdoch at the launch. Instead, iTunes guru Eddy Cue will represent Apple. One thing hasn’t changed: as James Murdoch affirmed earlier this week, subscriptions to the News Corp iPad ‘paper’ will run 99 cents weekly.

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MediaWeek: How long can News International hide its ABCe figures?

News International has been keeping its ABCe figures – the audited traffic figures for its news websites – close to its chest for ten months now, MediaWeek reports.

That means it has just two more months before having to either pull out of ABC membership altogether or restart publishing traffic figures for the Times, Sunday Times, Sun and News of the World.

News International withdrew from the ABCes after the launch of its Times and Sunday Times paywall. The News of the World is also now behind a paywall.

A spokesman from ABCe confirmed that despite reports to the contrary last year, News International is still “absolutely a member of ABCe”.

Full post on MediaWeek at this link.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – Storify examples

This ‘how to’ from Poynter offers great tips on ways to use Storify to turn news into conversations, such as documenting an experience or quoting direct sources, with some useful examples to illustrate its effectiveness. Tipster: Rachel McAthy.

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