Editors Weblog: Same ethical dilemma, two different responses

Editors Weblog reports on how some news organisations have recently faced the same ethical dilemma, but chose different and opposing answers. It asks “how should newspapers handle information that may endanger a life?”

Monday 21st Feb the Guardian revealed that Raymond Davis, an American now in prison in Lahore after being charged with the murder of two Pakistanis in Lahore, worked for the CIA.

As the article reported, Davis has been subject of widespread speculation since the fatal shooting on 25 January, but the Obama administration said he was an “administrative and technical official” attached to its Lahore consulate and had diplomatic immunity.

Full story on EWL is at this link.

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Twenty-eight new media, PR, communications and editorial 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

Managing editor/department leader
We are looking to recruit an energetic, open minded experienced senior editor, who wishes to set up the editorial department from the ground up.
Salary: £25K-£40K DoE
International Media Organisation
London, England
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Reporter
We require a news-hound who can pick up and follow through on stories; probably a print journalism graduate or an NCTJ certificate holder. But we also need someone with a real interest in technology, politics and the NHS, and business reporting.
Salary: DoE
EHealth Media
London , United Kingdom
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Assistant editor
A contract opportunity for 9-12 months has arisen for an assistant editor with excellent editing skills, who will assist with the timely and effective production of Which? Travel magazine.
Salary: £26K-£37K
Which?
London, England
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Managing editor
Are you passionate about magazines, highly organised, and an experienced people manager? If so you could take the figurehead role of Managing Editor across Cross Stitcher and Cross Stitch Collection.
Salary: £ Competitive salary + benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Commercial real estate reporter
SNL Financial is the premier provider of breaking news, financial data and expert analysis on business sectors critical to the global economy: Banking, Insurance, Financial Services, Real Estate, Energy and Media & Communications.
Salary: Competitive base salary plus performance-based bonuses
SNL Financial
London, England
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Fast Company: Google’s journalism prize and the 5 groups who should win it

The Fast Company’s take on who should win Google’s $2.7 million contest for innovative online journalism.

Google’s philanthropic spending spree has just dropped another $2.7 million to fund innovative uses of journalism in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. After all, Google and Youtube have been a lens through which citizen journalists focused the world’s attention on the Middle East revolutions and natural disasters that have dominated the news cycle (at least until Oscars weekend). So, we rounded up 5 innovative models to inspire the entrepreneurial journalists seeking the coveted Google award.

See the Fast Company’s five suggestions for winners at this link

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#jpod: The top news stories from Journalism.co.uk, 28 February 2011

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Guardian: Jeremy Hunt stakes his reputation on local television

Bids for expressions of interest for Jeremy Hunt’s proposed new national channel, dubbed ‘Channel 6′, are due tomorrow. The Guardian reports that community purists fear just another national channel while others are sceptical of plan’s commercial viability.

Hunt’s approach on this journey has been distinctive. The culture secretary has ignored the naysayers, ridden roughshod over the equivocal advice he has received from Lazard banker Nicholas Shott, and is relying on the bidders to make the idea work. Judging by the initial levels of interest, Hunt is doing well, although it is still early days. Tomorrow’s call for expressions of interest is limited to bidders providing a 10-page business plan – little more, critics say, than a beauty parade of half-baked ideas.

Full story on Guardian.co.uk at this link

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Washington Post: Al Jazeera saw the Arab revolutions coming, why didn’t the West?

The Washington Post has an article by the director general of the Al Jazeera network, Wadah Khanfar, who says the uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa were no surprise for Al Jazeera due to the network’s focus on grass roots journalism.

These unfolding transformations have been less of a surprise for us at al-Jazeera. Since our launch nearly 15 years ago, we have chosen to keep close to the Arab street, gauging its pulse and reflecting its aspirations. It was clear to us that a revolution was in the making, and it was happening far from the gaze of a tame and superficial establishment media that allied itself with the powerful center – on the assumption that the center is always safer and more important. Many media outlets in the region failed to recognize what was happening among the Arab grass roots. Keen to conduct interviews with high-level officials and ever willing to cover repetitious news conferences, they remained oblivious to what was happening on the ground.

Full post on the WashingtonPost.com at this link.

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BetaTales: The digital makeover for journalists

BetaTales suggests a seven-step plan for print journalists wanting to move into digital media, including getting to grips with social networks, online journalism, photo editing and making short video clips.

Step 3: Learn basic photo editing

In big print organizations specialists often take care of the photo editing. So far, at least.  Hardly any web site editorial organization can afford that luxury. Instead it is expected that all journalists know how to crop and photo shop an image. And I tell you: There are hardly any journalists under the age of 30 that do not know photo shopping today at some level.

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TNW Media: Two years after newspaper closes, 67% of its journalists earning less

TNW Media reports that a former editor of the now-closed Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado surveyed his former journalists to find out what they are now earning. Most of them are earning less than they did when they worked for the paper, which shut two years ago.

146 of the paper’s 194 journalists responded to Temple’s survey which found that 67% of them now earn less than in their old job at the Rocky Mountain News, with 57% saying that they now earn “Much less” than in their old job.

Full story on The Rocky Mountain News at this link

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Jon Slattery: Tower Hamlets scraps press table but fights to save East End Life paper

Jon Slattery reports that the Tory group leader at Tower Hamlets claims the council has removed the press table from its council chamber and is ‘fighting to the death’ to preserve its controversial newspaper, East End Life.

The future of East End Life is currently “under review” and a new code being proposed by Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles would ban local authority newspapers being published more often than four times a year.

Full post on Jon Slattery’s blog at this link.

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On the Media: Andy Carvin and Twitter’s ‘new kind of journalism’

NPR’s On The Media show has Andy Carvin discussing how a ‘new kind of journalism’ has been created by social media reports from the Arab world. Carvin has been vetting sources and trying to verify individual tweets from the Middle East and North Africa since the recent uprisings began.

Listen using the embedded player below.

Full post on On The Media at this link

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