Journalism Daily – that’s all folks

The more eagle-eyed among you may have noticed a new service we recently introduced to the Editor’s Blog – the Journalism Daily, a round-up of news and features published on the main site and quick links to the day’s blog updates.

We ran it for around a month, but it didn’t seem to pick up much of a following so we’ve decided to stop running it. If you found it useful let us know; or if there’s an alternative you can suggest, we’re all ears.

Either way, thanks to those who subscribed – your last Journalism Daily post was on Friday. The good news is: you can still receive daily e-newsletters with all our latest news and job ads by signing up at this link.

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New job alerts from Journalism.co.uk

You can view all Journalism.co.uk’s job listings on the main site, but we’re now going to be updating this blog with the latest vacancies posted to the site.

You can subscribe to these blog posts (and occasional job-related posts) at this link – just look out for ‘This week’s new journalism jobs’ headlines.

Or try these links if you’d rather subscribe via email alerts or RSS.

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Crowdsourcing the perfect press release – an update

We’ve published the results (so far) of our experiment to crowdsource a guide to writing the perfect press release, from the perspective of the journalists who receive them.

Here’s the guide as it stands at the moment – feel free to leave additional comments in the box below the article or email me (laura [at] journalism.co.uk) with your feedback.

The tips were received via a couple of blog posts, which can be read at this link to the first and this link to the follow-up post; responses to our @journalismnews Twitter account; and in direct emails.

Any feedback from the PR community would also be very welcome.

Update (July 31): Some additional comments from:

• Simon Collister, head of digital with Weber Shandwick’s Consumer team – ‘Have we finally breached the symbolic ‘real media’ vs social media divide?’
• Lloyd Gofton from Liberate Media – ‘The trouble with press releases’
• Blogger and communicator Neville Hobson

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Please ignore: Technorati test post

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Crowdsourcing the perfect press release – help us out

Love them or loathe them, press releases provide the initial spark for a story for many journalists

Whether it’s the launch of a new product, a statement from a campaign group on a hot issue or details of new research, most journalists will be inundated with releases during their career (some more relevant than others, though that’s material for a wholly different blog post…).

For PR professionals and press officers they are one vital tool for publicising events and brands or creating buzz for a client.

Journalism.co.uk has its own service, PressGo, for matching press releases with journalists interested in 37 subject areas, from consumer goods and affairs to fashion, IT or the environment.

But to make this service more efficient for its users (that’s you hopefully), we want feedback on how to write the perfect press release. For example:

• What details MUST it include and what’s superfluous?
• What are common mistakes that press release writers make that rankle you?
• What length/tone/format do you prefer?

We hope to create a guide – focusing on the writing, NOT distribution of releases – featuring comments from individual journalists as a point of reference for the PR community and we’d love your feedback, including your name and publication if possible.

Please leave a comment below, email laura [at] journalism.co.uk or send a tweet to @journalismnews.

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Event: Reuters hosts social media Q&A with Lib Dem’s Nick Clegg – take part!

On Monday (July 13) Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg will take part in a public question and answer session with a difference.

Clegg will respond to questions solicited via a range of social media sites in a livestreamed event – something that the politician himself has described as changing ‘the way we do politics’.

The event is the latest in a series of sessions subjecting high-profile figures in the world of politics and business to social media scrutiny – but previous participants, including Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Bob Zoellick, used the q&a session as a follow-up to a speech. Clegg will just be responding to questions from the public and online audience.

Journalism.co.uk is going to co-host part of the proceedings – it’s a great opportunity for us to see how Reuters runs these events and why and how they are opening it up/distributing it in this way.

How to get involved:
According to Reuters, nothing is off limits. If you want to put a question to Clegg before or during the event, you can:

• Leave a comment on this post or on the Reuters Great Debate post about the event
• Using Twitter – tag your questions with #askclegg
• By tagging a video question on the site 12 Seconds with ‘nickclegg’

Clegg has posed some questions of his own on 12 Seconds; or perhaps you’d like to challenge his statements on the war in Afghanistan?

How to follow the event:
There will be a live video stream of the event on the Journalism.co.uk Editors’ blog and on the Reuter’s hosting page. You can also follow some of the event on the Reuters New Editors Twitter channel.

Journalism.co.uk will attempt to aggregate some of the tweets around the event as well as featuring coverage on @journalism_live.

Any other suggestions of how you’d like us to cover it – please chip in.

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Congrats to Journalism.co.uk contributor Michael Haddon

City University journalism postgrad and Journalism.co.uk contributor Michael Haddon has landed himself a new job as a web copy editor for Dow Jones.

According to Haddon, he first heard about the job via Twitter:

Michael has covered a number of events for us, as well as writing for the Online Journalism Blog, and we’d like to wish him all the best.

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Media140: Follow the event where microblogging meets journalism

Updated May 20: There’s a great line-up of speakers at tomorrow’s today’s Media140 conference and Journalism.co.uk is proud to be involved as a media sponsor.

Panels featuring, amongst others, the Guardian’s blogs editor Kevin Anderson, Sky News Online senior editor Jon Gripton and TechCrunch editor Mike Butcher, will discuss how Twitter and social media work as tools for journalists and news organisations.

A full agenda can be viewed on the Media140 site.

If you’re not attending there are plenty of ways to follow online including: a Flickr group, a roster of bloggers (including Mike Atherton, Vikki Chowney, Dan Thornton and Kate Day) and – in the spirit of the event using the hashtag #media140.

You can watch the livestream below:

If you’re an Audioboo user – why not tag your boos with #media140 too?

Sky News will be running a liveblog on the event and you can see a Twitter stream of updates with hashtag below:

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