#Podcast – A look at the new Windows 8 apps from the New York Times, Financial Times and other outlets

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Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system launched last night and today the Windows Store opened for business.

This podcast looks at three different news publishers that have today launched apps in the Windows Store.

Sarah Marshall, technology editor, Journalism.co.uk speaks to:

• Alexandra Hardiman, director, mobile products, New York Times
• Chris Smith, product manager, Financial Times
• Chris Took, sales director, PageSuite, the company behind the app technology for the Daily and Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, OK! Magazine, Star Magazine and New! Magazine

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Editorial job losses at Express Newspapers reduced from 70 following union talks

As reported on Journalism.co.uk in August, Northern & Shell, owners of Express Newspapers and OK! magazine, announced plans to make 70 journalists at its newspaper titles – Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Sunday Star – redundant.

Now the company has reduced the overall number of cuts at the newspapers from 90 to 75. This means the number of journalism jobs cut would be reduced from 70 to between 52 and 57 – a figure reported by the Guardian and confirmed to Journalism.co.uk by the National Union of Journalists.

“The reduction in job cuts was only announced after the NUJ had warned the company that they were not following the right procedure,” said Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ deputy general secretary.

Stanistreet, a former Express Newspapers union representative, attended talks with the company this week.

“While we welcome the reduced numbers we still don’t know how the papers can be produced with the few people who will be left. We want to see some proper plans and we want guarantees that there will be no compulsory redundancies.”

Last year 80 Daily and Sunday Express redundancies were proposed by Northern & Shell, to cut the number of staff sub-editors, long-term regular casual sub-editors and other casual journalism staff.

Last year’s cutbacks included the introduction of a new working week pattern for sub-editing staff at the paper and a production system, which would allow some staff to write directly onto page templates without the need for sub-editors.

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Journalism Daily: 70 jobs to go at Express and Star titles, the Groucho’s libel action, regional ABCes

A daily round-up of all the content published on the Journalism.co.uk site. You can also sign up to our e-newsletter and subscribe to the feed for the Journalism Daily here.

News and features:

• Northern & Shell to axe 70 journalists from Express and Star titles
• Groucho Club in libel action to prevent defendant’s claims in ‘exposé’ of famous media haunt
• Regional newspaper ABCes: Johnston Press network takes top spot in web traffic report
• July ABCes: Mail Online records most unique users for second month running
• NUJ meeting to help freelancers clinch book deal
• Can Wound Media make an online payment model work?
• Smart Moves: Total Vauxhall welcomes Dougie Rankine as editor

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• More US publishers sign up for Briggs’ Newsgarden
• Comment: Free is just another cover price
• A reminder of the ‘perils of reporting’ in Pakistan
• Homeless Tales: Elle Magazine offers an internship to homeless blogger
• Guardian.co.uk: MPs’ committee to hear police evidence for NOTW phone hacking inquiry
• The E&P Pub: Seattle Times’ new hyperlocal partners
• paidContent:UK: Planned redundancies at Metro
• Wired Journalists: The #followwomenjournas movement

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• More US publishers sign up for Briggs’ Newsgarden
• Comment: Free is just another cover price
• A reminder of the ‘perils of reporting’ in Pakistan

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