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Gillian Tett at the Frontline Club: tonight 7.30pm GMT

This will be good. From the Frontline Club blog:

‘The credit crisis, financial journalism and scaremongering’ with Financial Times Assistant editor and journalist of the year Gillian Tett at the Frontline Club tonight. Gillian will be in discussion with BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders.

“When she picked up her prize for journalist of the year at the British Press Awards recently, the Financial Times’ Gillian Tett claimed the accolade was a vindication for ‘the geeks’ and ‘anoraks’.  The assistant editor of the Financial Times has been documenting the rise of credit derivatives banking since she was appointed in 2005 to cover the the rather unglamorous capital markets patch. But it was only after the full consequences of the risks bankers had been taking became so catastrophically apparent that Gillian Tett was promoted from ‘geek’ to luminary, regularly making appearances on TV and radio.”

Watch live here at 7.30pm GMT:

Community Care asks journalists what they know about social work

Following yesterday’s news that Community Care’s ‘Stand Up Now for Social Work’ campaign had been taken on by Take A Break magazine, the RBI title is now running a survey on journalists to gauge how much the media understands about the care industry and what it takes to be a social worker.

You can complete the survey at this link.

Responses will feed into a factsheet for the ongoing campaign, which was initially launched by drawing attention to the shortlisting of the Sun’s Baby P campaign for the British Press Awards.

Read: Community Care’s Simeon Brody on ‘Why social workers deserve better treatment by the press’

Community Care’s social work campaign picked up by Take A Break

An update from Community Care on its ‘Stand Up Now for Social Work’ campaign (covered by Journalism.co.uk last month): the RBI title’s efforts have been picked up by Take A Break magazine.

The campaign started by drawing attention to the shortlisting of the Sun’s Baby P campaign for the British Press Awards.

TAB has launched its own campaign, ‘Thank God for Social Workers’, as a follow-up. Unfortunately, the mag’s article on the new initiative isn’t online, but Community Care deputy editor Emma Maier tells Journalism.co.uk that TAB is giving away 500 campaign badges and has also criticised the Sun’s ‘name and shame approach’.

TAB editor John Dale told Maier in her report on the development that the title is looking for more stories from social workers, who would have their details protected, and is keen to run more articles on the issue.

Read: Community Care’s Simeon Brody on ‘Why social workers deserve better treatment by the press’