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FleetStreetBlues: Did Sunday Times job receive 1,200 applicants?

Laura Oliver — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:55:15 +0000

According to a FleetStreetBlues source, the Sunday Times’ recent advertisement for a news reporter for its forthcoming website received more than 1,200 applicants.

“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.

Full post at this link…

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MediaGuardian: Plans for paid-for Sunday Times website

Laura Oliver — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:05:17 +0000

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.

Full story at this link…

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Women don’t fare too well on the power league lists

Judith Townend — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:00:05 +0000

The 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%.

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Top of the mags: the winners from the Press Gazette Awards

Judith Townend — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:53:51 +0000

Press 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

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Le Carre-d away: has the author’s alleged desire to defect become fact?

Judith Townend — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:14:12 +0000

This, 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?

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MediaGuardian: No integration for Times and Sunday Times, says John Witherow

Laura Oliver — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:56:20 +0000

The Times and the Sunday Times will remain 'separate titles with separate staff', says Sunday Times editor John Witherow. Talks are ongoing, however, as to how the Sunday paper can be better represented on TimesOnline. At present the title drives a third of the site's traffic.

Independent: Harold Evans on newspaper design

Laura Oliver — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:10:08 +0000

Colour 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.

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Guardian wins top sports award with multimedia coverage

ruth morgan — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:02:00 +0000

The 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.

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Happy birthday WWW!

ruth morgan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:40:35 +0000

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…

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Are you on the Journa-list? Probably not if you’re a blogger

Oliver Luft — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:08:42 +0000

A 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.

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