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About Joel Gunter

Joel Gunter is a senior reporter at Journalism.co.uk.

#followjourn: @TheRealJoeCox/news editor

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#followjourn: Joe Cox

Who? News editor of What Hi-Fi?

Where? Cox oversees the What Hi-Fi? site and magazine, and blogs in their blog section. He tweets regularly on all things sound and vision and more.

Contact? @TheRealJoeCox.

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The AWL: Cash-for-traffic scheme underway at New York Observer

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The New York Observer has instigated a new cash reward scheme for its staff. There are five categories: pageviews; posts; Twitter followers; comments; and external pickups.

In each of the five categories there will be a $500 dollar bonus for the staffer with the highest number, and $350 for the runner up.

According to AWL, “The tips for “pageviews” included using Google Trends and Twitter and other web tools to see “what’s buzzing” on the web, so as to write about more popular things”.

AWL puts the scheme into context: “Annualized, the bonus pool of $48,000 could hire two extremely junior reporters with no benefits or a single rather senior one.”

Follow this link to read David Amerland on Journalism.co.uk last month discussing performance-related pay in journalism.

Full story at this link…

#followjourn: @lizhollis/freelance

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#followjourn: Liz Hollis

Who? Freelance journalist.

Where? Hollis has worked for major national newspapers and received a journalism award for her work in the Guardian. She has her own website here, as well as a blog on which she writes about the media and finance among other things.

Contact? @lizhollis.

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Wired: New York print war is really about digital future

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There has been plenty of excited coverage of the playground spat between the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times started by the Journal’s move into general interest metro coverage. The Journal’s news section, Greater New York, launched yesterday, and the Times war committee responded quickly with a memo to subscribers reminding them just how great the paper’s New York section is, and has been for so much longer than the Journal’s johnny-come-lately.

Harold Evans has taken up a ring-side seat at the Daily Beast to take score as the bout progresses over the week.

So far the whole thing seems, unsurprisingly, to have revolved about print, but Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk claims the war is “really about digital”.

The spat appears to be about local New York coverage, but really, it’s about both organizations’ digital future (…) By cutting ad rates and suddenly going after the same non-financial local stories as the Times, Murdoch is waging a good, old-fashioned newspaper war in the traditional sense. But the spoils this time will be the hearts and minds of a digital audience faced with far more choices than consumers of print.

Full story at this link…

#followjourn: @MarpleLeaf, editor and blogger

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#followjourn: Michael Taylor

Who? Editor of North West Business Insider and blogger.

Where? North West Business Insider can be found here. Follow this link to Taylor’s blog, a hyperlocal for the area of Marple. In 2007 Taylor won Business Journalist of the Year at the Northern Journalist of the Year Awards for his detailed work into the issue of carousel fraud and the decline of music retailer, Music Zone. He tweets under the name MarpleLeaf about things both local and general.

Contact? @MarpleLeaf

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#followjourn: @hwallop/consumer affairs editor

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#followjourn: Harry Wallop

Who? The Telegraph’s consumer affairs editor. Oxford graduate and former Investors Chronicle writer.

Where? Wallop writes for the Telegraph technology video section (he is one of two ‘gadget inspectors’) and has a blog in the paper’s online finance section. As consumer affairs editor he has a broad remit however, and covers “everything from food trends and utility bills to the property market and the latest toys”. His Telegraph profile and collected articles can be found at this link. He also has a LinkedIn page.

Contact? @hwallop

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Lost Remote: New journalism programme to mix digital storytelling and business

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“Even with the state of journalism today,” claims Lost Remote’s Cory Bergman, “most university professors would be loath to meld a curriculum of storytelling with the business side of the equation”. This is not the case at the University of Washington digital media programme though, which aims to become the ‘Columbia Journalism School of digital media and communication’, and teach “a unique blend of digital storytelling, social media and the business of digital media”.

“The three go together,” says Hanson Hosein, the director of the Masters of Communication in Digital Media program and a former NBC News correspondent who covered the Iraq war as a one-man band. “We’re hearing from our applicants that there’s nothing else like our program.”

Full story at this link…

#followjourn: @reversefrasier/freelance

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#followjourn: James Lawrenson

Who? Lawrenson is a freelance journalist and self-proclaimed ‘master cakebaker’. He writes mostly about music. He is also a serial blogger.

Where? He seems to have two blogs, The Reverse Frasier, which charts his trip from Seattle to Boston (moving in the opposite direction to television character Frasier apparently, who moved from Boston to Seattle) and Sprawling Reels, which seems to largely about music. Lawrenson also contributes to Drowned In Sound, which has a profile page for him here, and for Spinner, who have one for him here.

Contact? @reversefrasier

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NYT: What would Daniel Ellsberg have done with Pentagon Papers if Wikileaks had existed?

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Now that it is relatively simple for anyone in possession of leaked documents to publish them directly to the internet, is there any reason to pass them on to a national newspaper?

With the viral advantages of internet publishing and social networking, can dedicated sites such as Wikileaks – which made a huge impact two weeks ago with the release of a classified military video showing the killing of civilians in Baghdad by a United States Apache Gunship – replace mainstream news organisations as the place to take leaked information?

Noam Cohen of the New York Times casts an eye back at the case of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, and asks how it might unravel differently today.

[I]f someone today had the Pentagon Papers, or the modern equivalent, would he still go to the press, as Daniel Ellsberg did nearly 40 years ago and wait for the documents to be analysed and published? Or would that person simply post them online immediately?

Full story at this link…

#followjourn: @CatJGoddard/copywriter

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#followjourn: Catherine Goddard

Who? Goddard was a freelancer until recently, but now has her own commercial writing business.

Where? She has her own website, Catherine Goddard, with a full portfolio and means to contact her. She also has a listing on LinkedIn. Her commercial writing business, Wonderworld, has its own site with full details about the company and what it has to offer.

She graduated with a BA English Literature from King’s College London in 1996, and attained an MA in Journalism Studies from the University of Westminster in 2005.

She is a self-confessed “Twitter-addict”

Contact? @CatJGoddard

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