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Top five news, features and blog posts on Journalism.co.uk in 2010 (by page views)

John Thompson — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:38:23 +0000

OK, we know it’s quality not quantity that counts, but it’s still fascinating (to us at least) to learn which stories have attracted the most traffic over the course of a year.

Unsurprisingly, Wikileaks is prominent as was the televised leaders debate during the general election. And some old faithfuls continue to pull in traffic from jobseekers and ‘wannabe’ freelancers (this year that was probably mostly unemployed journalism graduates and recently ‘redundant’ journalists).

But stories about paywalls failed to even come close…

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Source: Google Analytics

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Guardian: Journalists win claim of unfair dismissal from Sky

Rachel McAthy — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:28:07 +0000

Two journalists have won claims for unfair dismissal and sex discrimination, it was reported yesterday, with a tribunal ruling that they were axed from their jobs at Sky “because they were mothers with young children”.

The Guardian reports that BSkyB now faces a £200,000 payout to Natalie Stone and Victoria Waterson.

The pair were overlooked for a new position of video producer, which was given to the then senior Sky executive Mike Taylor’s personal assistant, Dee Lakhan. Taylor, head of networked media at Sky Movies, had a “mindset adverse to pregnancy and maternity leave”, the tribunal found.

Both journalists are now seeking compensation for loss of earnings and injury to feelings, the report adds.Similar Posts:

BBC News: Media rivals join forces against Murdoch

Rachel McAthy — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:27:42 +0000

The BBC reports this morning that rival media groups have come together and called on business secretary Vince Cable to consider blocking Murdoch’s planned bid for the remainder of BSkyB.

Signatories are said to include the heads of the BBC and Channel 4 and chief executives of newspapers including the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Mail and the Mirror. The letter argues that any such bid would “reduce diversity in the industry”.

In June, News Corp told the board of BSkyB that it was prepared to pay 700p a share to take full control of the leading satellite broadcaster. BSkyB’s directors said the offer was £1 per share too low, but agreed to resume negotiations after regulatory hurdles have been cleared.

News Corporation has been confident that it could demonstrate that the combination of BSkyB with News Corporations’ UK newspapers – the Sun, the Times, the News of the World and the Sunday Times – does not pose a serious threat to competition.

This follows news last month that similar calls on Vince Cable were being backed by the National Union of Journalists while founder of Enders Analysis Claire Enders wrote to Cable to voice her concerns over the future plurality of the media.Similar Posts:

BBC release: BBC, ITV and Sky submit joint letter calling for three live televised election debates

Judith Townend — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:32:54 +0000

The BBC has made the following announcement on its site:

“BBC, ITV and Sky have today written to the leaders of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties with a joint proposal for three live televised debates during the next general election campaign.

“The individual broadcasters would be responsible for producing and broadcasting one debate each between all three party leaders.

“Each of the three debates would be transmitted live by the originating broadcaster in peak time and made available to all other British broadcasters subsequently.

“The broadcasters have formed a joint team to discuss detailed plans with the political parties.

“Each of the broadcasters will seek to make suitable arrangements for ensuring due impartiality across the UK.”

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That DEC Gaza Crisis appeal video the BBC would not show…

John Thompson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:01:15 +0000

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DigitalSpy: Sky launches an online-only subscription TV service

Judith Townend — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:40:15 +0000

Sky’s new online-only subscription TV service, Sky Player TV, has been launched, according to DigitalSpy.co.uk. The service, announced last month, offers three subscription packages featuring a mixture of live and on demand programming.Similar Posts:

Sky News on Georgia – let’s start with a geography lesson…

Laura Oliver — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:58:43 +0000

Sky News’ online section ‘Georgia In Depth’ is an aggregation of pictures, articles and info about the eastern European country, which borders with Russia, as part of coverage of the current conflict in the region

So that’s the Georgia between sandwiched between Europe and Asia and not the US state then?

If you’re going to use Wikipedia, at least get the right entry. Thank goodness for the disclaimer… it’s no one’s fault!

(Also, why does the site publish Wikipedia excerpts at all if, as the disclaimer suggests, Sky News has little faith in their accuracy?)Similar Posts:

Sky ramps up ads in online video

Laura Oliver — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:51:46 +0000

Sky is to increase advertising on its video content across its sports, news, showbiz, travel, motoring and style sections.

The deal with in-video advertising firm Adjustables will see a range of new ad formats featured in the content.

Sky Sports has already recorded 14 million video ad impressions online and Sky News 3.5 million, according to a release from Adjustables.

The partnership underlines Sky’s commitment to online video, Tom Bevan, operations manager at Sky Digital Media, said.

“Within our growing portfolio, video is clearly something that differentiates Sky’s online offering. We’re particularly well served by a wide variety of unique video content, be that from Sky’s core content business or web exclusive material,” he said.Similar Posts:

MediaGuardian: Sky Arts’ John Cassy to head up Wall Street Journal’s online video

Laura Oliver — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:32:13 +0000

Channel director Cassy will take a six-month secondment to develop the WSJ’s online video strategy.Similar Posts:

Sky News new beta site

Oliver Luft — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:35:37 +0000

Sky News has launched a beta version of its new website, to run in parallel with its existing news site.

It has adopted a top story carousel for the homepage that displays the latest breaking news in video and pictures.

It has also added a story tracker in the right column, which lets you follow a story as it develops, and in the left column a See Your News personalisation feature.

“What you are visiting is very much work in progress. We are testing and trialling new features and a very different design,” Steve Bennedik, editor of Sky News Networked Media, wrote on his blog.

“At the same time we are still offering our existing site. When we are ready, we will switch off the old site and this will be our public face.”

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Sky News uses CoveritLive for Crewe by-election debate

Laura Oliver — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:05:29 +0000

Sky News yesterday used live blogging service CoveritLive to host a debate between candidates standing in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election (thanks to Simon Dickson and his Puffbox blog for the tip).

Candidates Tamsin Dunwoody (Labour), Elizabeth Shenton (Lib Dem) and Edward Timpson (Conservatives) responded to questions directly from readers of the blog and Sky News’ host Martin Stanford.

The service is becoming increasingly popular with news sites: today the Lancashire Evening Post is liveblogging an afternoon from a local pub, while US newspaper the Grand Island Independent used the tool as a feedback channel during the redesign of its website.

Elsewhere Farmers’ Weekly is liveblogging ‘an afternoon in the life of the newsroom’ – a similar experiment to that conducted by the Liverpool Daily Post.

Read Journalism.co.uk’s interview with CoveritLive president Keith McSpurren.Similar Posts:

A plug for Sky News Unplugged

Laura Oliver — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:50:48 +0000

From tomorrow Sky News will air its new online programme Sky News Unplugged.

The show, which promises ‘a sideways look at the week’s news’, will be available only on the channel’s website and through interactive services on TV.

The programme will later be available on demand through the site’s video channel.Similar Posts:

Guardian: Times website seeks Sky News link-up

Oliver Luft — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:04:58 +0000

The Times website wants to carry more video content from Sky News.

Times Online editor-in-chief, Anne Spackman, told MediaGuardian.co.uk that negotiations to make this happen were at an early stage on the newspaper website carrying breaking news videos from Sky.

Any deal is likely to improve the online video offering from the Times.

Despite being one of the first national newspapers to adopt a TV service the Times offering has fallen behind other nationals – in terms of quality – and seems to be due an overhaul.Similar Posts:

Sky News creates multimedia timeline to mark disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Laura Oliver — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:57:14 +0000

Sky News has produced a multimedia timeline detailing the events and news coverage of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance over the last year.

The timeline incorporates videos, pictures and analysis from Sky’s crime correspondent Martin Brunt. Users can scroll through the timeline, which offers over 100 screens of multimedia.

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Photoshopped marathon pictures fool Sky News website

Laura Oliver — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:37:10 +0000

Journalism student Todd Nash’s new blog Journalism Today has flagged up some pictures from Sunday’s London Marathon sent to Sky News’ Your Photos section.

Only not every picture here tells the true story, rather the pics have been photoshopped and submitted by forum members of website Football365.com.

Some of the pictures are still available, including this appearance by the grim reaper:

And another submitted by A. Lurker (clue: look closely at his vest):

The news site are likely to take the joke well: following an earthquake in the UK in February the site received so many spoof photos of quake damage, it created a separate archive for them.Similar Posts: