According to a FleetStreetBlues source, the Sunday Times’ recent advertisement for a news reporter for its forthcoming website received more than 1,200 applicants.
Tags: Sunday Times“We hope it won’t discourage the Times- uniquely among the nationals – from continuing to advertise its jobs. It probably will. Who wants to sort through a small forest of CVs?” asks FSB.
The Sunday Times is planning to launch a standalone, paid-for website, according to MediaGuardian.
The system of payment has not yet been decided, but the site could launch within three months.
Subscribers to the title’s print edition will not have to pay for access, according to the report.
Tags: Sunday TimesThe Observer’s Women’s Special in the Review section, spanning 80 years of history, made interesting reading over the weekend: apparently men still dominate the top levels of media, politics, finance and … church. Of note were the ‘big lists’ split into male/female ratio. Here are those relevant to the media sector (percentages refer to the female portion of the list):
• Sunday Times Rich List: 1%
Of 95 women listed in the top 1,000, 56 are half of male-female partnerships.
• Vanity Fair ‘New Establishment’ 100: 9%
Three women feature as part of male-female partnerships; only one woman – Angelina Jolie – in top ten.
• Telegraph 100 Living Geniuses: 15%
No women feature in top 30.
• Media Guardian Top 100: 21%
One woman, BBC’s Jane Tranter, in top ten.
• Entertainment Weekly 50 Smartest People in Hollywood: 24%
Two women in top 25.
• Evening Standard 1001 Powerful Londoners: 27%.
Tags: Angelina Jolie, BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, Entertainment Weekly, Evening Standard, finance, Sunday Times, The Observer, the ReviewPress Gazette last night presented its 2008 Magazine Design and Journalism Awards. Here’s a run-down of the winners from last night’s ceremony:
Young Designer of the Year: Dominic Bell, Wallpaper
Best Designed Magazine of the Year – Consumer (Over 40k): Meirion Pritchard, Wallpaper
Best Designed Magazine of the Year: Meirion Pritchard, Wallpaper
Best Designed Features Spread: Grant Bowden, Ritz
Best Use of Typography: Grant Bowden, Ritz
Best New Design/Redesign: Marissa Bourke, Elle
Best Designed Front Cover: Marissa Bourke, Elle
Best Use of Illustration: Tan Parmar, Contact
Best Use of Photography: Dan Delaney, Onelife
Reviewer of the year: Andrew Billen, The London Magazine
Digital Journalist of the Year: Paul Grant, Accountancy Age
Business Reporter of the Year: Stuart MacDonald, Building
Exclusive of the year: Jonathan Green, Live
Feature Writer of the Year: Ariel Leve, The Sunday Times Magazine
Magazine Designer of the Year: Jonathan Gregory, Dirt Magazine
Editor of the Year: David Burton, Camouflage
Best-Designed B2B magazine: Dean Dorat, Contagious
Interviewer of the Year: Lesley White, The Sunday Times Magazine
Best-Designed Customer magazine: Dan Delaney, Onelife
Columnist of the Year: Michael Hodges, Time Out
Production Team of the Year: Esquire
Best Designed Magazine of the Year Consumer (Under 40k): Paul Willoughby & Rob Longworth, Little White Lies
News Reporter of the Year: Sally Gainsbury, Health Service Journal
Tags: acccountancy age, Ariel Leve, business to business, camouflage, Dan Delaney, David Burton, Dean Dorat, dirt, Dominic Bell, esquire, Grant Bowden, Jonathan Green, Lesley White, little white lies, Marissa Bourke, Michael Hodges, onelife, Paul Grant, Paul Willoughby, Press Gazette, ritz, Rob Longworth, Stuart MacDonald, Sunday Times, sunday times magazine, Tan Parmar, The London Magazine, Time Out, Times Magazine, wallpaperThis, in Saturday’s Guardian, in Hari Kunzru’s review of John Le Carré’s latest book, ‘A Most Wanted Man’:
In a recent interview Le Carré was asked if he ever considered defecting. “Well, I wasn’t tempted ideologically … but when you spy intensively and you get closer and closer to the border … it seems such a small step to jump … and, you know, find out the rest.” Though this has been reported as some sort of tabloid confession (”I was tempted to defect, says spy novelist Le Carré”), it seems primarily interesting as a key to his fiction, whose central concern is the exploration of the metaphorical borderland occupied by the proponents of any polarised conflict.
The Guardian, September 27 2008
Perhaps surprisingly, no mention of the fact that Le Carré says that his quotes were out of context, as this lengthy letter to the Sunday Times pointed out. Le Carré writes that his interviewer, Rod Liddle, chose not to use a tape recorder and subsequently misrepresented him that he was misrepresented in the interview and this article:
… he [Liddle] failed to encompass or indeed record the general point I was making about the temptations of defection.
Lord Annan, I ventured in our conversation, had declared that four years of Intelligence work were as much as any sane man could stand. I painted for Mr Liddle the plight of professional eavesdroppers who identify so closely with the people they are listening to that they start to share their lives.
It was in this context that I made the point that, in common with other intelligence officers who lived at close quarters with their adversaries, I had from time to time placed myself intellectually in the shoes of those on one side of the Curtain who took the short walk to the other; and that rationally and imaginatively I had understood the magnetic pull of such a step, and empathised with it.
John Le Carré, Times Online, September 20 2008.
Presumably the Guardian Review’s editors and the writer, Hari Kunzru, were aware of Le Carré’s problem with Liddle’s interview and chose not to mention it, although Kunzru does refer to the tabloid-like sensationalisation of the interview.
A Google search for John Le Carré brings back reviews for his latest book, but if you search “john le carre + defect” it’s possible to see how far the Sunday Times reports have spread… The AP reported it as the Sunday Times did, and then it went far and wide of course.
Will Le Carré’s consideration of defection go down in the history books, with no reference to his complaint?
Tags: Hari Kunzru, John Le Carré, Rod Liddle, Sunday Times, The Guardian, the Sunday Times, timesColour should be used with caution, says the former Sunday Times editor.
Black and white photos and text are too often neglected, says Evans, who adds that good design has the potential to ’sustain’ newspapers.
Tags: Design, harold evans, Sunday TimesThe Guardian scooped the coveted sports coverage of the year award at last night’s Sports Industry Awards.
Other contenders for the award included the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and The Times, with the Guardian chosen for displaying ’synergy between multi-platforms.’
Highlights were said to include online and print coverage of Steve McClaren’s sacking, with rolling news, comment and audio on the web.
Technology such as Hawk Eye graphics used during cricket coverage last summer was also praised.
The award follows the relaunch of the Guardian.co.uk sports section last month as part of the ongoing site revamp.
Tags: Awards, coveted sports coverage, sport, Steve McClaren, Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, the Guardian.co.uk, The Times
Today is the 15th birthday of the World Wide Web, marked by the CERN announcement on April 30 1993 that the web would be free to all.
It’s a cue to sit back and marvel at how much has changed in a relatively small amount of time and post screen shots that may induce the same feeling as mum fetching the baby photos.
After the WWW age was born, online news and journalism was swift to follow: The Tech – an online version of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology newspaper, went live in May 1993; closely followed by the first journalism site from the University of Florida that October.
By 1994 there were already more than 20 online newspaper and journalism services. The Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph were the first British papers to enter the online world in 1994 with the Beeb taking slightly longer to catch up, launching its news website in 1997.
1999 saw the launch of Journalism.co.uk in its first form and my haven’t we grown…
With web technology advancing daily, the slick news sites of today will surely be drawing fond smiles in another 15 years.
Happy birthday Web, here’s to many more…
Tags: BBC, birthday Web, Florida, Journalism.co.uk, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, online news, online newspaper, online version, online world, Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, University of Florida, web technology, web technology advancingA new website has been launched by the Media Standards Trust, purportedly to provide info on and links to UK national newspaper journalists. The blurb says:
“Journa-list is an independent, not-for-profit website that makes it easy for people to find out more about journalists and what they write about.”
Then later:
“It is the first UK website to offer a fully searchable database of UK national journalists (who write under a byline), with links to their current and previous articles, and some basic statistics about their work.
“It contains all journalists from 12 national newspapers – The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Mirror, The Observer – and BBC News Online. The site can only index those articles which have bylines. We started indexing the articles in May 2007.”
An admirable attempt – you can even be emailed or take an RSS feed to alert you to a new article – except that it doesn’t quite do all this yet.
While the list is expansive, my quick, random search revealed a few missing journos (there also seems to be a few teething problems as the alphabetical list, whichever way I look at it, seems to only go up to B or C).
What about the Beeb’s Nick Robinson? Roy Greenslade of the Guardian?
It might be the blogging efforts of these two that’s throwing the list off – but that throws up another question. If they aren’t listed, shouldn’t blogging journalists be included too?
Shane Richmond is listed for a single article, not for his numerous and excellent blog posts. If a journalist is blogger and article-writer both, then is it very indicative if half their output isn’t listed?
If anyone finds examples of blogs in the list, please would they get in touch.
Tags: BBC, Media Standards Trust, Nick Robinson, random search, Roy Greenslade, Shane Richmond, Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, United Kingdom
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