The Cutline: Steve Jobs to join Murdoch on stage for unveiling of new iPad publication

According to Yahoo blog the Cutline, Rupert Murdoch will be joined on stage by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs later this month for the launch of News Corp’s new iPad publication, the Daily.

Known as The Daily, Murdoch’s iPad publication has been the talk of the media world over the past couple months, and the News Corp. chief has even dubbed it his “No. 1 most exciting project.” The hush-hush project has been taking shape at the company’s Manhattan headquarters, but it will also have staffers in Los Angeles.

But while news of the editorial hires has steadily leaked out, The Daily’s brass have remained tight-lipped about the launch.

The Cutline’s full report can be found here.

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Radio 4: Max Mosley outlines ‘really very simple’ privacy claim prior to Strasbourg hearing

In an interview on this morning’s Radio 4 Today show, Max Mosley outlined the reasons behind his attempt to change privacy laws in Strasbourg today.

The former FIA chairman outlined the ruling as a “really very simple thing” in which newspapers alert public figures if information “they know [public figures] should like to keep private” was to be published.

Claiming the figure was based on information from the PCC Rule Committee, Mosley said: “In 99 out of 100 cases if [the press] are going to write something of any interest about someone they will approach the person first.”

He argued that the MPs involved in the expenses scandal were approached before their information was printed and that it was only when “newspapers are concealing from you something they know is illegal and then printing it, knowing that you can’t put it right” that the new rules would apply. Mosley said that this was “a very narrow point [he's] in Strasbourg on”.

As the Guardian reported this morning, members of the press are contesting Mosley’s proposed changes to the law:

The case is being vigorously contested by a number of media organisations, which argue that the change would create opportunities for injunctions, delaying publication and violating the media’s right to freedom of expression.

“[Mosley] is a wealthy international public figure with a penchant for satisfying sexual desires by beating women, and being beaten by them,” said Geoffrey Robertson QC, representing media organisations who have intervened in the case. “He pays prostitutes to engage with him in mildly sadomasochistic orgies, and campaigns for a law that will enable the truth about such ‘private’ conduct to remain secret. The vast scope of the new law which is contended for … is so vague as to be unworkable.”

You can hear Mosley’s interview on Radio 4 here.

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Joseph Stashko: Why 2011 ‘should’ be a great year for young journalists

Student journalist Joseph Stashko has posted this morning on why, if you’re under 25 and an aspirational journalist, now should be easier than ever to get a job in the media. He argues that the technological shifts that have affected traditional print journalism have caused the route into the industry to change, and those who are happy to embrace the multi-media, web-savvy skills necessary for today’s journalism should be welcomed into the industry.

Of course you need traditional journalistic values in a 21st century newsroom, but for once the people being recruited at entry level know about how to adapt to the news landscape just as well as the people above them.

I’d even go as far in arguing that graduates are capable of knowing far more than their employer when it comes to how to approach modern news distribution. They don’t have the stigma and knowledge of the old way of doing things; this is a generation that has almost grown up entirely in the social culture of news and is glad of it. They’re selfless about their work, they want to listen to and engage their readers and produce exciting content.

Read the full post at this link.

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‘The Russification of WikiLeaks’: Crowdsourcing the fight against Russia’s casual corruption

Russia has a peculiar attitude to the whole Wikileaks affair. While the rest of the world debates whether Julian Assange is a hero or a reckless criminal, or whether confidential information should stay that way or not, Russians mostly meet every new cable from the US embassy in Moscow with an apathetic sigh.

Virtual mafia state, you’re saying? Oh please! Is that really a secret? To millions of Russians it definitely isn’t. Corrupt high-ranking officials publicly accused of their crimes not only keep their posts but often get promoted. So you can leak whatever you like, it won’t make any difference. If you’re lucky, you’ll stay alive and out of prison. But the subject of your scoops, investigations and revelations won’t even flinch, let alone resign or even publicly apologise.

Another problem with the leaked documents is that the majority of these cables are, let’s face it, unbearably tedious and written in dry bureaucratic lingo. It’s highly unlikely that anyone except for professional journalists assigned to the task will read them, especially in the case of the Russian audience which has to do so in a foreign language. The majority of Russian’s have to rely on Wikileaks’ official representative in Russian media, a weekly magazine called Russian Reporter, which has been criticised over the veracity of its coverage of the embassy cables release.

But despite the WikiLeaks cables being properly available to only a small portion of the Russian audience, and interest in the Russification of WikiLeaks being generally low, a Russian version site that sprung up recently turned out to be so popular that it crashed several times under the burden of requests in the first few days after the launch. Ruleaks.net, which was set up by the Pirate Party of Russia, has already been quoted in dozens of Russian-language media all over the world. It’s hard to say exactly why, but I can explain the motivation that drives dozens of volounteer translators to help Ruleaks.net, myself included.

First of all, it helps you feel like you are a part of something important, even though your name never appears anywhere – the website operates on a strictly anonymous policy. Secondly, I get to read all the leaks that I otherwise wouldn’t – after all, I’m now doing it for a common cause, not for own amusement. And the potential for journalistic self-improvement is enormous: in the course of two days and a couple of translated leaks I learned the full nomenclature of tags and notes in classified documents and now can crack these cryptic combinations of letters and numbers like nuts.

But the best thing about Ruleaks is its technological basis, an innovative crowdsourcing platform Powercrowd.ru, which allows multiple translators to work on a single leak which may be too big for one to handle. Vadim Likholetov, Powercrowd.ru’s developer, says the project wasn’t originally intended to be used exclusively in conjunction with Ruleaks, but it’s a great opportunity to ‘break in’ a tool that is versatile enough to tackle any similar task.

Crowdsourcing, it seems, is finally catching on in Russia. Online anti-corruption crusader Alexey Navalny, who is proudly hailed as ‘our very own WikiLeaks’ (although his methods are different from Assange’s, as Navalny only publishes legally obtained documents), has been extensively blogging about all kinds of corruption and injustice in Russia for several years. He has 27,000+ subscribers to his blog and one of his latest posts – on alleged widespread embezzlement at a state-owned oil company – gathered the maximum amount of comments allowed by Livejournal.com: 10,000.

Quickly realising that he alone would be overwhelmed with the amount of work which largely consists of meticulous skimming through thousands of pages of official documents, Navalny asked his readers if they could help him out. Several months later, rospil.info was launched. The URL is a clever pun: the name of every state corporation in Russia begins with Ros-, and the widely used euphemism for embezzlement is ‘raspil’, literally ‘sawing’ – hence the two saws in the eagle’s paws on the logo.

This is a crowdsourced effort to expose the ‘sawing’ of state funds through fake auctions; people skim through the website on which all bids for government purchases are announced, post suspicious ones on rospil.info and then have volounteer experts to look through them. So far, in a couple of weeks since the launch, the results are noteworthy: fake auctions worth £210 million have been exposed and hastily canceled. And all of this with near-zero budget.

Similar projects are springing up everywhere now: Fiodor Gorozhanko from St.Petersburg launched zalivaet.spb.ru (‘We’re drowning!’), a website where anyone can mark on a map the location of a leaking roof, the problem which the city’s inefficient and corrupt authorities can’t or don’t want to handle, while another maps potholes, etc. And since none of these initiatives have yet reported any pressure from the authorities whose incompetence they are pointing out, perhaps those up above are finally realising that exposing flaws in the state’s fabric might be actually good for it.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – CV writing tips

The Society of Professional Journalists has put together a list of 10 tips for building better CVs on The Campus Copy blog for those on the job hunt, although these are specifically aimed at students. Tipster: Rachel McAthy.

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Forty-two new media, editorial and communications vacancies this week on Journalism.co.uk

News editor
Journalism.co.uk seeks web and multimedia-literate news editor
Salary: DoE
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Talented writers wanted
Suite101 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
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London, All
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European Editor
Responsible for soliciting scientific research articles, writing scientifically oriented magazine feature and news articles, interviewing key opinion leaders, copyediting, liaising with authors, proofreading, article layout to tight deadlines.
Salary: DoE
Advanstar Communications
Chester or London, England
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Online editor
Emerging Markets is looking for an experienced finance and economics journalist/editor for the role of online editor.
Salary: DoE
Emerging Markets
London, England
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Production editor
We are looking for a bright, quality-driven experienced production editor to join a design and production hub at Bauer Media.
Salary: DoE
Bauer Media
Peterborough, England
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Senior staff writer
Surrey-based technology publisher Kadium Ltd needs a bright and experienced journalist.
Salary: DoE
Kadium
Surrey, England
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Staff writer
Investor Publishing is looking for an ambitious and talented journalist to fill the position of staff writer for its market leading business magazines
Salary: DoE
Investor Publishing
London, England
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Online editor and senior writer
PEI Media, a global media group focused on the private investment industry, has an opening in its London office for an editor with impeccable writing and editing skills.
Salary: DoE
PEI Media
London, England
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Reporter – Companies Desk
Dow Jones NewsWires, the International Financial news agency, is looking for a reporter to join its London-based Companies Desk to cover UK small-cap companies.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones NewsWires
London, England
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Reporters
Incisive Media has experienced another year of impressive growth and we have plans for more expansion in the UK and overseas. At the core of our growth is our passion for creating the highest quality content by building the very best editorial teams.
Salary: £20K-£30K
Incisive Media
London, England
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Editor – CNinsight
Construction News is looking for an editor to lead the development of its multi-award winning online business information tool CNinsight.
Salary: DoE
Emap Ltd
London, England
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Finance reporter
Construction News is looking for an ambitious finance reporter to join our dynamic and growing team.
Salary: DoE
Emap Ltd
London, England
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Reporter
Smarta is looking for a talented and enthusiastic, social media and SEO-savvy business journalist.
Salary: DoE
Smarta
London, All
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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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News reporter – Airport World and Routes News
Insight Media, publisher of Airport World and Routes News magazines, is looking for a new reporter with a great news sense to work across its growing portfolio of online b2b aviation news products.
Salary: DoE
Insight Media
Twickenham , England
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Deputy editor
Horseshoe Media is looking for a self-motivated deputy editor for its three titles covering renewable fuels and energy.
Salary: £22K
Horseshoe Media
Morden, England
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In-house journalist
In-house journalist needed for expanding B2B print and online publisher
Salary: DoE
World News Media Ltd
London, England
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Content manager – Legal Week
Legal Week – the award winning magazine for business lawyers – is looking for a content manager to spearhead the development of Legal Week Law, an exciting new website that has caught the imagination of the legal community.
Salary: DoE
Incisive Media
London, United Kingdom
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Editor
Mobile News Editor
Salary: DoE
Clark White Publications Ltd
London, All
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Editor – What Laptop
This is your chance to take the helm at the UK’s best-selling mobile computing magazine.
Salary: £Competitive + Benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
London, England
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Music reporter
Digital Spy, one of the UK’s largest entertainment and media news websites, is looking for a new reporter to provide news and feature content for the music section.
Salary: £19K
Digital Spy
London, England
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Reporter – Meat Trades Journal
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a newly qualified journalist to land their first serious job in journalism at Meat Trades Journal.
Salary: DoE
William Reed Business Media
Crawley, United Kingdom
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Intern
Fast-growing independent publishing house seeks Intern to work across print and online publication – B2B Marketing.
Salary: Expenses only
Silver Bullet Publishing
London, United Kingdom
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Production editor – Linux Format
As production editor you will organise workflow around the magazine team and contributors, sub-editing copy and ensuring that high levels of accuracy and editorial quality are maintained.
Salary: £competitive
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Stocks reporter
Bloomberg News is seeking a Stocks Reporter to be based in our Amsterdam bureau.
Salary: competitive + bens
Bloomberg
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Correspondent
Metal Bulletin is looking to recruit an experienced and talented journalist to take one of the most senior positions on its editorial team.
Salary: DoE
Euromoney
London, England
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Staff writer
We’re on the look out for two ambitious, hard-working online staff writers to join a new and growing editorial team.
Salary: DoE
Casis Media Ltd
London, England
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Reporter
Fastmarkets Ltd, the leading online provider of news, research and data for base, precious and minor metals, is seeking an experienced reporter to spearhead and develop its Asian coverage.
Salary: DoE
FastMarkets
Singapore, Rest of World
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Assistant editor
Hemming Group Limited is looking for an assistant editor to work on Local Government News, a monthly publication covering housing, regeneration and sustainability.
Salary: DoE
Hemming Group Ltd.
London, England
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Senior reporter
Confused.com are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic personal finance senior reporter to join the content team.
Salary: DoE
Confused.com
Cardiff, Wales
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Reporter/senior reporter
Journalism.co.uk seeks online-savvy news hound to cover the media industry revolution
Salary: DoE
Mousetrap Media Ltd
Brighton, England
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News reporter
Money Marketing is looking for a new reporter to join its award-winning eight-strong news desk. Journalism experience covering financial services issues is preferable and a good news sense is essential.
Salary: DoE
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London, United Kingdom
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Staff writer
Staff Writer wanted to plan and generate new stories and articles for online site, write features for in-print magazine, produce weekly e-newsletters and manage in-house reporters.
Salary: £18K-£22K
Executive Grapevine International
Welwyn Garden City, England
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Online media sales/account executive
To work for Brighton-based Journalism.co.uk
Salary: DoE
Mousetrap Media Ltd
Brighton, England
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Journalist
Leading marketing agency is seeking enthusiastic, proactive journalists to work across a range of industries. This fast paced role is ideal for recent graduates with a flair for writing news content and a strong interest in current affairs.
Salary: 18K+ DoE
Vertical Leap Ltd
Portsmouth, England
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Editorial intern (beauty)
Two beauty titles require an editorial intern two days a week to start asap to assist with writing, blogging, admin and image sourcing. Expenses to be discussed on attendance of an informal interview.
Salary: DoE
Seed Publishing
Westerham, United Kingdom
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Reporter
Agriculture’s leading weekly newspaper is looking for a full-time reporter to be based in its London office.
Salary: DoE
Farmers Guardian
London, England
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Website editor
We’re looking for outstanding communicators, and you’ll also need strong editorial experience, a keen eye for detail and an understanding of brand identity.
Salary: £24K-£26K DoE
Macmillan Cancer Support
London, England
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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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Editor
Editor required for monthly b2b magazine and website.
Salary: DoE
Lema Publishing
Berkhamsted, England
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Online journalist
The UK’s leading GP title Pulse is looking for an online journalist to work on its website PulseToday.
Salary: DoE
UBM Medica
London, England
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Senior producer
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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The Guardian: Met asks News of the World for new phone-hacking evidence

The Metropolitan Police has asked the News of the World for fresh evidence as part of the phone-hacking investigation, the Guardian has reported.

The Met wrote a letter to the newspaper on Friday “requesting any new material they may have in relation to alleged phone-hacking following the suspension of a member of their staff.”

The News of the World responded in a statement, saying: “We have received a letter from the Metropolitan police and will co-operate fully.”

Later this week the Met is expected to hand over previously undisclosed documents to the lawyers of sports agent Skylet Andrew, who represents cricketer James Anderson and footballer Sol Campbell, among others. Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator paid by the News Corp publication, pleaded guilty to intercepting telephone messages in 2006.

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OJB: UGC, the Giffords shooting and how ‘inaction can be newsworthy’

Paul Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog has an interesting look at user-generated content and comment moderation, and the stories they can produce.

Bradshaw looks specifically at Sarah Palin’s Facebook page, which has been subject to strict moderation in the wake of the assassination attempt on Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. He points out that the decisions to remove certain comments and let others stand can be seen as representative of the page owner’s stance and could potentially give rise to a story.

Bradshaw also warns that trawling through comment threads on political pages is not the same as treading the streets. What you see there is not unadulterated content, it is closer to carefully edited campaign material.

Worth reading in full.

Full post on the Online Journalism Blog at this link.

Lost Remote has a post on another media issue to emerge from the Giffords shooting: the spreading of inaccurate claims on Twitter that Giffords had died, and subsequent removal of tweets by news organisations.

Full post on Lost Remote at this link.

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Stephen Glover: ‘Attack Google too, if you value privacy’

In an article for the Independent this morning, Stephen Glover critiques the Murdoch backlash championed, he claims, by the Guardian and suggests that those opposing the BSkyB bid should consider how Google affects privacy.

there is a more powerful organisation that may pose a far greater threat than Rupert Murdoch, and yet it is barely criticised by right-thinking people. Its name is Google.

Glover looks at the role Google plays in daily life through features such as Google Maps and Google Mail as well as comparing the company’s Conservative political sway with that of Rupert Murdoch.

I know which organisation worries me more. I should say in his defence that my old friend Henry Porter has attacked Google in the past, describing it as “an amoral menace”. I am sure he would agree with me that, for all his sins, Mr Murdoch publishes some very good newspapers and produces some good programming. Google may provide an invaluable service but it actually produces nothing much of value while taking billions of pounds of advertising from newspapers and television.

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After Twitter revelation, WikiLeaks suspects US of pressuring Google and Facebook

WikiLeaks suspects that Google and Facebook may be under pressure from the US Government to reveal information relating to the whistleblower’s site or its members.

The claim follows a court order issued by the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in December and published by Salon.com [PDF], which ordered micro-blogging site Twitter to hand over information about five accounts associated with WikiLeaks, including one belonging to Julian Assange.

WikiLeaks tweeted on Saturday:

Note that we can assume Google & Facebook also have secret US government subpeonas. They make no comment. Did they fold?

The subpeona issed to Twitter claims that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe the site had information “relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation”. This information included IP addresses, contact information, private messages and the addresses used to access the accounts, allowing investigators to establish potential connections between users.

Despite being ordered to the contrary, Twitter notified those targeted by the subpoena, WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp, Bradley Manning and Icelandic collaborator and MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir. It is over the request for Jónsdóttir’s information in particular that Iceland has requested an explanation from US authorities.

Assange’s lawyer, Mark Stephens, said in an interview with Channel 4 News that the U.S Department of Justice is seeking to target not just WikiLeaks’ main collaborators but also the organisation’s 634,000 followers on Twitter in an “intimidatory” act.

Yesterday, The Telegraph’s Shane Richmond commented that the news of this subpoena may change the way people react to social networking sites:

There’s also a risk that cases like this one will deter people from using social networks to express controversial opinions.

What has come out of this weekend’s events is the contrast in the types of information and their availability and use. As both Richmond and Stephens note, WikiLeaks’ publishing of classified government information reflects the reporting journalists have done “for years”. The American DOJ’s demand of personal details, however, may impact upon how individuals share information in future. Richmond highlights the warning Columbia students were given regarding public online discussion of WikiLeaks, but could similar discussion soon hold risks for journalists?

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