TweetDeck rebuilds its iPhone app

TweetDeck has redesigned rebuilt its iPhone app from scratch. Version 2 is available now and allows users to access feeds from Twitter and Facebook.

The new app has been designed by the team that developed the Android app, which has been nominated for a Webby Award.

YouTube is currently down, so the embedded video supposed to appear here is not displaying. We will put it back as soon as YouTube is back on its feet.

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Journalisted Weekly: (More) royal wedding, AV, and letter bombs

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about.

It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations.

Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources.

for the week ending Sunday 24 April

• Royal Wedding and AV referendum dominate news and debate
• Terror stemming from football club rivalry grips front and back pages
• EU immigrants and Sri Lanka war crimes covered little

Covered lots

• News and comment on the Royal Wedding, as preparations for street parties and security continue ahead of Friday, 722 articles
• Debate around AV referendum, with party leaders divided and ‘yes’/'no’ voting campaigns in full swing, 197 articles
• Letter bombs sent to Celtic Football Club manager Neil Lennon and and two other fans, 108 articles

Covered little

• France and Italy pushing for EU border control reforms, as the African migrants crisis worsens, 15 articles
• Ed Miliband’s engagement with Blue Labour ideals, including a re-thinking of the previous government’s immigration policies, 7 articles
• A leaked UN report alledges both the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tigers committed war crimes during the final days of the civil war two years ago, 7 articles
• A river ferry capsizes in Bangladesh after colliding into wreckage of another ferry, with 33 reported dead, 3 articles

Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)

• David Cameron: 648 articles (+13% on previous week)
• Nick Clegg: 285 articles (+5% on previous week)
• Ed Miliband: 217 articles (+103% on previous week)
• Vince Cable: 143 articles (-7% on previous week)
• Gordon Brown: 136 articles (-11% on previous week)
• George Osborne: 133 articles (-18% on previous week)
• Tony Blair: 106 articles (+33% on previous week)
• William Hague: 101 articles (-26% on previous week)
• Andrew Lansley: 46 articles (-63% on previous week)
• Andrew Mitchell: 40 articles (+300% on previous week)

Celebrity vs serious

• Actor Helen Mirren, who is promoting her new film, 45 articles vs. debate around mission creep in Libya, as UK military officers are ordered to join and ‘advise’ rebels on the ground, 41 articles
• Nigella Lawson, who was photographed swimming in a ‘burkini’, 36 articles vs. clashes between Thai and Cambodian military over disputed border, 18 articles
• Doctor Who’s Matt Smith, starring in the new series, 37 articles vs. post-election riots in Nigeria against new president Goodluck, with over 500 reported dead, 36 articles
• Singer Susan Boyle, who now has a wax model at Madame Tussauds, 25 articles vs. severe storms and tornadoes across the southern US, killing at least 45 people, 12 articles

Arab spring

• Libya and Colonel Gaddafi, 227 articles (-27% on previous week)
• Syria and President Bashar Al-Assad, 61 articles (+126% on previous week)
• Yemen and President Saleh, 30 articles (+50% on previous week)
• Gaza and Hamas, 23 articles (-39% on previous week)
• Iran and President Ahmadinejad, 10 articles (+233% on previous week)
• Bahrain and King Al Khalifa, 9 articles (+50% on previous week)
• Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu, 6 articles (-68% on previous week)
• Oman and Sultan Al Said, 5 articles (+500% on previous week)
• Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah, 4 articles (+100% on previous week)
• Kuwait and Emir Al Sabah, 4 articles (+100% on previous week)
• Jordan and King Abdullah, 4 articles (-20% on previous week)
• Iraq and Prime Minister Al Maliki, 3 articles (+200% on previous week)
• Egypt’s military council, 2 articles (-83% on previous week)
• United Arab Emirates and President Al Nahyan, 2 articles (+100% on previous week)
• Turkey and Prime Minster Erdoğan, 2 articles (-33% on previous week)

Who wrote a lot about…’AV’

Andrew Grice – 7 articles (The Independent), Roland Watson – 6 articles (The Times), Andrew Porter – 5 articles (The Telegraph), Allegra Stratton – 5 articles (The Guardian), Andrew Sparrow – 4 articles (The Guardian), Patrick Wintour – 4 articles (The Guardian), Anushka Asthana – 4 articles (The Times)

Long form journalism

• 4,521 words: ‘Fight club: Life after the Jeremy Kyle treatment’ – Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 22nd April 2011
• 4,139 words: ‘Call of duty: the Army’s new recruits’ – Rob Blackhurst, Telegraph, 22nd April 2011
• 3,871 words: ‘Why have you forsaken us?’ – Christine Tooney and Hala Jaber, Sunday Times, 24th April 2011

More from the Media Standards Trust

Visit the Media Standards Trust’s new site Churnalism.com – a public service for distinguishing journalism from churnalism

Churnalism.com ‘explore’ page is available for browsing press release sources alongside news outlets

The Media Standards Trust’s unofficial database of PCC complaints is available for browsing at www.complaints.pccwatch.co.uk

For the latest instalment of Tobias Grubbe, journalisted’s 18th century jobbing journalist, go to journalisted.com/tobias-grubbe

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Five stories to inspire you to try Storify – which anyone can now join

Anyone can now join multimedia storytelling platform Storify.

The site, which allows users to drag and drop elements such as tweets, audioboo recordings, photographs from Flickr and YouTube videos to tell a dynamic story, which can then be embedded on a news website or blog, was previously in private beta and an invitation was required. As of this week Storify is now in public beta.

Since its launch in September, private beta users have created more than 21,000 stories, according to this post.

Storify stories have been viewed more than 13 million times, 4.2 million views were in March. The stories generated have been embedded on more than 5,000 sites, including news sites from the New York Times, to the Guardian and BBC.

Here are five stories to inspire you to have a go:

1. The Stream, the daily television show powered by social media and citizen journalism on Al Jazeera English, has created this Storify story on Blogging from “Between the Bars”.

[View the story Blogging from "Between the Bars" on Storify]

2. The Wall Street Journal embedded this Storify story which asks where should New York place QR codes?
[View the story QR codes in New York City on Storify]

3. Storify received record views after March’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
[View the story Latest on Japan earthquake and tsunami on Storify]

4. BBC London curated the London marathon with Storify.
[View the story Your Story of Marathon 2011 on Storify]

5. And whether you love of hate the hype, the Royal Wedding will no doubt inspire more Storify stories, such as this one from ABC News.
[View the story UK gears up for royal wedding on Storify]

Do you have any useful tips for people using Storify? Please share them with Journalism.co.uk readers.

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Where? Chris created Openly Local to open up local authority information and increase transparency. He is speaking about local data at Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired – noise to signal on Friday, 27 May, 2011 at Thomson Reuters.

Twitter? @countculture

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News teams nominated for 2011 BAFTAs

Nominations have been announced for the 2011 British Academy Television Awards, with production teams at the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Sky all nominated within the News Coverage category.

The production teams behind BBC1′s Ten O’Clock News: Handover of Power, Channel 4 News: From Chile’s Ecstacy to Congo’s Agony, ITV News at Ten: The Cumbria Murders and Sky News: Egypt Crisis, all made the official list of nominations.

Other categories within the awards, which will be presented at a ceremony on 22 May in London, include Current Affairs, Single Documentary and Factual Series.

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Flipboard adds Telegraph and Guardian ahead of royal wedding

Flipboard, a “social magazine” for the iPad that pulls in content from the web, has announced partnerships with the Guardian and the Telegraph.

Announcements from the company about the Guardian – “the central liberal voice in the British media” – and the Telegraph – “one of the most circulated broadsheets in the UK” – have been timed to coincide with the upcoming royal nuptials.

We’re launching the Guardian and the Telegraph at this precise moment so you can feel like you’re right there in Westminster Abbey witnessing the union and following events from the eyes of Londoners.

The US app has also added OK Magazine and Brides Magazine in advance of the wedding.

Flipboard was launched in July last year to offer its users a magazine-like collection of news, features, videos and images circulating within their social networks. In December it announced that eight US news outlets including ABC News and the Washington Post Magazine were testing the app as a distribution platform.

Last week the company announced additional investment of $50 million (£30 million), taking its value to around $200 million (£121 million). According to the company the funds will be used to expand its staff from 32 to around 50.

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Twenty-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

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Salary: £29,972-£39,107
Southampton Solent University
Southampton, England
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Deputy chief sub-editor – The Grocer
One of Britain’s top business-to-business weeklies is looking for a deputy chief sub-editor.
Salary: DoE
William Reed Business Media
Crawley, England
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Seeking journalism and media-management experts for Africa
Three openings in Africa. Media Managers and trainers for climate change adaptation. The Knight International Journalism Fellowships make tangible changes that improve the quality and free flow of news in the public interest around the world.
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International Center for Journalists
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Freelance journalist – TotallyLiving.co.uk
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Features editor – Country Wedding Magazine
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Metro: World media gear up for the wedding

The Metro this morning reported that “an international army” of 8,000 broadcast journalists and technicians, covering the Royal Wedding on Friday, will be operating from a temporary multimedia village in Green Park.

According to the Metro major networks have spent around £50,000 to set up temporary studios offering Buckingham Palace as a backdrop. Interest “has been strongest” in the US, the Metro report adds.

CNN alone is dispatching at least 400 staffers, including 50 journalists and producers to cover the spectacle and plans several news special this week. Even the Weather Channel has caught royal wedding fever with its Wake Up With Al programme based in London.

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News sites can now add a Facebook ‘send’ button

Facebook has launched a new plugin with great appeal to news sites.

“Send” is similar to the “like” function but allows Facebook users (and there are half a billion of them) to send a news story as a private message to an individual, a few friends or a group.

The “send” button can be added to a site’s sharing options, as the Washington Post has done here:

Or users can click the Facebook icon or ‘share’ button and they will then have the option to send the story as a private message.

A Facebook user may come across a gallery of marathon pictures on a news site and decide to “send” the link to everyone who sponsored them. Or a charity may want to “send” a news feature about a campaign to a particular group, which the members can then discuss privately.

According to this Facebook blog post, the ‘send’ button keeps people on your site.

The send button drives traffic by letting users send a link and a short message to the people that would be most interested. They don’t need to leave the web page they’re on or fill out a long, annoying form.

Compared to the alternatives, the send button has fewer required steps, and it removes the need to look up email addresses by auto-suggesting friends and groups.

A small group of news sites and brands launched their ‘send’ buttons yesterday.

Details of how to add the ‘send’ button to your site are at this link.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – live Tweeting

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