Did you lose your newspaper job? Help us with our survey

A call to all journalists who have left newspaper jobs: Journalism.co.uk’s survey in collaboration with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) continues. We’ve had a good response so far, but we still need more data to make for a more informed study. Since we launched the project, even more UK redundancies have been announced; this week, for example, 17 were cut by Trinity Mirror (this time in Merseyside). Please help us by re-tweeting, blogging and forwarding the survey links to people you think may have been affected by the newspaper jobs cull sweeping Britain.

We want to know about your experiences of losing your job and how you have adapted in your personal and professional life since leaving the newspaper. We’re also considering the gap in knowledge and experience you have left behind.

The survey, which draws on work by colleagues in the US and the University of Kansas, is voluntary and confidential. Results cannot be attributed to a specific individual unless the individual chooses to reveal himself or herself. You also can refuse to answer any question. The survey will take 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

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Twenty-four great new jobs this week on Journalism.co.uk

It’s been a busy week for us this week with the following twenty-four great new jobs all having been posted on Journalism.co.uk’s jobs board:

Communications officer
With a communications qualification, experience of working with partner organisations and dispersed groups of people and some knowledge of agriculture for the NFU’s Campaign for the Farmed Environment
Salary: £23,625 – £30,478 pro-rata
NFU
Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England
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Technical editor – Mountain Biking UK
We are looking for a passionate technical editor to work on Mountain Biking UK, Britain’s best-selling bike magazine.
Salary: competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Art editor
Would you like to work as art editor on the world’s biggest movie magazine for one of Future Plus’ biggest clients?
Salary: competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
London, England
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Assistant editor
Assistant editor, Family History Monthly
Salary: DoE
Diamond Publishing Ltd
West London, England
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News editor
With the ability to work in a fast-moving environment with extremely tight deadlines and experience covering markets at a newswire, newspaper or specialist publication.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones Newswires
London, England
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Online editor
Become Edge’s online editor and be part of one of the most prestigious brands in gaming.
Salary: competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Operations editor – Official PlayStation Magazine
Do you want to sub-edit one of Future’s leading games titles? Official PlayStation Magazine is looking for an operations editor to ensure that the magazine meets all print deadlines and is super accurate.
Salary: competitive + excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Assistant editor (media)
Our client seeks a highly skilled B2B assistant editor to join their exceptional portfolio of market reports serving the print and packaging industries.
Salary: £20K-22K + bens.
Formula Won
South East, United Kingdom
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Editorial media recruitment consultant
With experience and understanding of all aspects of editorial to join the team at top media recruitment agency Formula Won.
Salary: £25K-£30K + uncapped comm. + bonus. (OTE £60K+)
Formula Won
London (Canary Wharf), United Kingdom
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Energy correspondent
A great opportunity for an experienced energy correspondent to join this prestigious portfolio of business intelligence tools, produced to the highest standard in order to support the finance sector.
Salary: On application
Formula Won
Central London, United Kingdom
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Senior editor (healthcare)
Our client is a well-known healthcare communications agency with offices on both sides of the Atlantic. They are committed to quality and excellence in everything they do, creating integrated campaigns across a wide range of communication channels.
Salary: On application
Formula Won
London, United Kingdom
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Financial webcast journalist
Financial/business journalist to contribute to a regular interactive webcast.
Salary: DoE
BrightTalk
London, United Kingdom
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Public relations journalist/writer
Our client offers an outstanding opportunity for an exceptional, experienced journalist to play a pivotal role amongst some of the world’s biggest corporations.
Salary: £25K-£30K + exc bens.
Formula Won
London, United Kingdom
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Head of press
To maximise press coverage for this independent thinktank.
Salary: DoE
Policy Exchange
London (Westminster), England
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News writer
Tropical Paradise, a leading travel publishing firm in Maldives, looking for a news writer. Your main work will be to write travel and tourism related articles online. You will have chance to travel different resorts for reviews.
Salary: $850 (USD) per month + accommodation
Tropical Paradise Pvt. Ltd
Male’, Maldives, Rest of World
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News and feature writer/PR executive
This small but international PR firm with global accounts for multi-billion dollar clients and a bias towards a B2B client base needs a confident, fluent and computer literate writer with great style.
Salary: Negotiable according to experience
SE10
London (central), England
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Editorial assistant
The editorial assistant is responsible for providing editorial and administrative support to the site editors, and ensuring the quality and delivery of the company’s newsletters.
Salary: £16K-£18K
Progressive Digital Media
Central London, England
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Senior online editor – dramas/soaps
Senior editor of drama and soaps, you will be passionate and experienced in creating multimedia content, in an online environment for a leading broadcaster. You will have a solid understanding of prime content.
Salary: £50K-£60K
PCR
London, United Kingdom
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Home writers
Freelance writer –specialising in Home Services (Buildings, design, decor etc): Researching and writing content for a new website aimed at recent home movers, run and managed by Europe’s largest Lifestyle Management business on behalf of a major client.
Salary: £120-£150 per day
Ten Lifestyle Management
London, United Kingdom
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Art director
With a strong graphic design-based portfolio and at least three years’ experience in a similar role to join the Dubai-based team at What’s On, the UAE’s biggest-selling monthly magazine.
Salary: DoE
Motivate Publishing
Dubai, Middle East
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Editor
The Engineer, the UK’s leading magazine and website for technology and innovation is looking for a new editor.
Salary: Competitive with excellent benefits
Centaur Media plc
Central London, United Kingdom
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Digital production editor
Cyclingnews.com, the biggest cycling website in the world is now looking for an online production editor to join its successful team.
Salary: Competitive with excellent benefits
Future Publishing Ltd
Bath, England
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Senior reporter
Credit Today, the leading magazine for the commercial and consumer credit industries, is expanding and this is a chance to be part of our small but dynamic team.
Salary: c£23K-£25K
Athene Publishing
London, United Kingdom
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Investigative journalists
Investigative journalists needed for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Salary: DoE
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
London, England
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paidContent.org: GNM laying off six US employees

PaidContent (owned by Guardian News & Media) reports that Guardian America is laying off six ‘production/edit’ employees: “Most of them are in Guardian’s Washington DC office, and have been given three months notice. None of the U.S. correspondents are affected by this move.”

Last month paidContent reported GNM was to axe GuardianAmerica.com.

Full post at this link…

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Jon Hickman: Why has the Guardian received little backlash over jobs board hack?

Cast your minds back a few weeks: the Guardian UK jobs board, operated by Madgex, was targeted by hackers. The Guardian reported the incident in its print edition, and the comments beneath an initial blog post show some strong criticism and speculation over why the attack occurred.

But Birmingham City University researcher Jon Hickman reflects that it passed with ‘little comment’:

“Guardian Jobs must have many thousands of members, and this security breach could be affecting them all in a very real way, yet I haven’t seen much in the way of a backlash.

“Twitter should be out in force decrying this failure in the website’s duty of care. Questions should be asked of the Guardian’s response which puts the onus on individual consumers. Instead: nothing.

“How, in these times of consumer activism and online protest has this passed uncommented? Given the pressures of the marketplace, why do The Guardian not have to work hard to keep in favour with their audience?

“Perhaps even in this digital age the old myths of the mainstream news media still hold true today: we work for them, all the while thinking we are the customer when in fact we’re the product.”

Full post at this link…

(via @PaulBradshaw on Twitter)

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Twelve new journalism and media jobs this week on Journalism.co.uk

The following great new jobs have been added to Journalism.co.uk’s jobs board this week:

Online content producer – cars
With experience of writing for online and working to daily deadlines, subject expertise in cars and an ability to turn complex technical copy into an online story that answers key consumer questions for Which?
Salary: £25K-£37K
Which?
London, England
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Online content producer (full-time contract – six months)
With experience writing for online and working to daily deadlines, expertise in home products and the ability to turn complex technical copy into an online story that answers key consumer questions for Which?
Salary: £25K-£37K
Which?
London, England
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Production editor
Inside Housing, the award-winning weekly magazine for the social housing sector, is looking for a talented production editor to lead its busy production desk.
Salary: DoE
Ocean Media Group
London, United Kingdom
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Bonds / FX Editor – London
Bloomberg News is seeking an experienced editor in London to cover government bonds, currencies and money markets. The successful candidate will join a team of 10 reporters and editors.
Salary: competitive + benefits
Bloomberg
City of London, England
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Graphic designer
A graphic designer is needed to join the team at Financial News, Europe’s leading weekly newspaper for securities and the investment banking industry.
Salary: DoE
Dow Jones European Consumer Media Group
London, All
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International business journalist
International business journalists researching data, conducting face-to-face interviews with global business executives and writing comprehensive and authoritative energy reports.
Salary: DoE
Wildcat Publishing
Istanbul, Rest of World
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Reporter
An energetic and ambitious reporter covering the global infrastructure investment industry, writing news, features and commentary about all aspects of financing, developing, operating and investing in infrastructure assets around the world.
Salary: DoE
PEI Media
London, England
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Entertainment journalist
Vibrant, talented reporter with local newspaper or agency experience and a passion for showbiz and news gathering needed to join this worldwide leader in supplying showbiz news and features around the globe to print, internet and broadcast media.
Salary: DoE
Bang Media International
London, England
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Video journalist
Freelance video journalist positions sought to join global new agency’s fast-growing international television service. Required: at least two years’ experience in hard news and newsmagazine journalism, digital video editing skills, excellent French.
Salary: DoE
Agence France Presse
London, England
>>more

Staff writer
A journalist with an interest in and understanding of information technology in business is needed to join the team at Information Age, writing news content for the website and features and analysis for the monthly magazine.
Salary: £23K
Vitesse Media
London, England
>>more

Senior medical writer
We are looking for an experienced senior medical writer with experience in a medical communications agency environment – Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Salary: DoE
Succinct Communications Ltd
Amersham, United Kingdom
>>more

International ecomony editor
The successful candidate will commission, edit and write analysis on the global economy for publication in the Oxford Analytica Daily Brief.
Salary: DoE
Oxford Analytica
Oxford, England
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The Star: ‘Locked-out’ Canadian journalists lead scandal coverage

What do you do when you’re locked out from your own paper? Set up a website of course and investigate the allegations and goings-on behind the stand-off.

Such is the story of Canadian website Ruefrontenac.com, the work of 253 employees  from Quebec newspaper Journal de Montreal who have been ‘locked out’ by their employer Quebecor following dispute over jobs and working hours between the publisher and the union.

“Ruefrontenac.com has set up in an old dance studio overlooking the Journal’s parking lot.

“The journalists choose their own topics to write about without having to consider corporate interests, Bousquet [Richard Bousquet, the website's co-ordinator] said. ‘It’s a bit of a journalistic experiment.’

“Journalists divide their time producing content and picketing.”

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Videojournalist David Dunkley Gyimah named Southbank artist in residence

Videojournalist and Westminster University lecturer David Dunkley Gyimah has been made an artist in residence at London’s Southbank Centre.

During his 2009-10 residency, Dunkley Gyimah will work on a new form of artistic film, mixing documentary style with a new response to the film format – he’s already begun working on projects for his residency on his site viewmagazine.tv.

“As a deep reservoir of knowledge, arts and cultures it would be my wish to find new discourses for creating arts reportage, but also to work alongside other artists and, through the style of solo videojournalism I have practised for the last 16 years, continue to develop styles and manners in which we can exploit new and digital media forms to both tell stories and create our own visual and literary footprints,” said Dunkley Gyimah in a statement.

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paidContent:UK: Award-winning news site Soitu.es closes

Twice recognised in the Online News Association’s (ONA) annual awards, Spanish news site Soitu.es has announced its closure.

Building an audience was not the issue – attracting advertisers to a new model was the problem, Gumersindo Lafuente, founder of the site, has said (in a post attracting 760 comments so far).

At 22-months-old, Soitu’s closure will be a blow/lesson to news start-ups and independent sites recently launched.

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London Lite could close following consultation

Associated Newspapers today announced that it is entering a period of consultation over the future of the London Lite, which could see the free evening publication close. Thirty-six London Lite employees will be consulted before a final decision is made, a statement said.

“The latest development in the London afternoon free newspaper space dictates that we look again at the future of London Lite. Despite reaching a large audience with an excellent editorial format, we are concerned about the commercial viability in this highly competitive area,” said Steve Auckland, managing director, Associated Newspapers Free Division.

In August, News International, the UK newspaper division of News Corporation announced that it would close thelondonpaper, its free evening newspaper launched in 2006.

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Guardian jobs site targeted by hackers

An attack by hackers may have ‘compromised’ the details of up to 500,000 Guardian jobs site users, the Guardian has reported.

The Guardian jobs site, which advertises many journalism and media related jobs, was targeted on Friday, but the hack was stopped before it was completed. The police is now investigating.

A statement on the Guardian’s site says:

“We are continuing to work closely with our service provider and the police, who are undertaking a full investigation through the central e-crime unit at New Scotland Yard. Please continue to visit this site for regular updates.”

User data is stored on separate databases managed for the Guardian by third party companies. In the UK, it is operated by Madgex. Its US site was unaffected by the hack the company said.

An extract from the Guardian’s report:

“The Guardian has emailed ‘up to half a million’ users of its UK-based Jobs website to tell them that some of their personal data may have been compromised by ‘a sophisticated and deliberate hack’ on Friday night.

“A Guardian spokesperson said the site has about 10 million unique users per year, and that ‘the hack was stopped before it was completed’.

“‘As soon as we were alerted to the fact that there was a problem, we dealt with it, in line with the information commissioner’s guidance on data protection,’ said the spokesperson. ‘We felt it was important to be transparent and alert our users as soon as possible.’”

• More from ITPro at this link
• Comment from the TheNextWeb at this link
• Guardian page on security breach here

Update:

The company that operates Guardian Jobs, Madgex, believes it was the only of its clients to be targeted in this way, according to a statement by its CEO Simon Conroy.

Statement in full:

“We can confirm that hackers accessed the personal details from some job seeker CVs on our client’s recruitment website, Guardian Jobs, on Friday October 23.

“We are not aware of any other Madgex-operated website having been targeted in this way, but we have taken preventative measures to ensure the same issue cannot occur with other client Job Boards.

“Madgex has an excellent security record and we are continually reviewing our systems and comply with industry standard practices.

“Unfortunately, no site can ever be warranted as 100 per cent safe from concerted and technologically sophisticated criminal hackers.

“This situation has been treated with the utmost seriousness and Guardian Jobs has contacted all those affected by this security breach, advising them of precautionary measures they can take. Madgex and Guardian Jobs are supporting the relevant authorities with their investigations.”

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