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Northcliffe Localpeople site experiments with Storify
When Journalism.co.uk spoke with social media storytelling tool Storify last week, it was predominantly US news sites that we could see using it. So it’s good to see Northcliffe Media’s Localpeople site, Westbury-On-Trym, getting in on the act for its coverage of Gordon Ramsay’s programme on the UK’s best restaurants:
If you spot any more examples of Storify being used let us know – we want to know how this tool develops.
Trading places: digital editor takes Liverpool FC story to the wire in print swap
A fantastic blog post from Alison Gow, executive editor, digital, at the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, on her recent job swap with an executive editor on the print side of the operation while the Liverpool FC “sale/saga” broke.
She describes the difficulties of creating a Late Final edition with a solid tip but no confirmation that NESV (New England Sports Ventures) had completed the deal.
Everyone in the newsroom was becoming increasingly desolate as the late special idea looked set to fall down. The confirmation came, we managed to get it online (and cached, for once) before Sky and the BBC were even reporting it and there were celebrations at landing a web exclusive.
Then it turned out we had a print one as well… Echo editor Ali Machray had quietly got the front page change made – including a story announcing the sale, and had sent to the printers on the off-chance. So bundles of the latest news were in vans heading back to outlets on Merseyside… bundles that would have been pulped if no announcement had come through.
Helpfully, she also runs through the elements of print and online coverage that worked well and were valued by readers and those that were not.
MediaBugs: How US newspapers differ on corrections and clarifications
MediaBugs, the Knight News Challenge-winning service for correcting errors in media coverage, has produced some interesting research into the publication of corrections and clarifications by US news websites
We found that of the websites of 35 leading daily newspapers we examined, 25 provide no link to a corrections page or archive of current and past corrections on their websites’ home pages and article pages. Only about half, 17 of the 35, provide a corrections policy of any kind (which we define broadly as any explicit statement regarding corrections practices). Sixty per cent of the newspaper sites (21 of 35) do provide an explicit channel (email, phone, or web form) for the public to report an error to the newsroom. However, in most cases this information isn’t prominent or easy to find.
Sports journalists in Ghana deny taking money from government during world cup
A group of sports journalists in Ghana have denied allegations that they received money from the Ghana Football Association or Ministry of Youth and Sports during the World Cup earlier this year.
According to a report by Citifmonline, the ministry has said it spent $50,000 on media relations during the competition, which was given to the Ghana FA and distributed to journalists.
Former BJP editor Geoffrey Crawley remembered in Telegraph obituary
Geoffrey Crawley, former editor of the British Journal of Photography and exposer of the Cottingley Fairies hoax who died on 29 October, was remembered in a Telegraph obituary at the weekend.
When he concluded his investigations into the Cottingley photographs, Crawley wrote to Elsie Wright with his findings… “Of course there are fairies – just as there is Father Christmas,” he wrote. “The trouble comes when you try to make them corporeal. They are fine poetic concepts, taking us out of this at times too ugly real world. Conan Doyle, after the horrors of the First World War in which his son died, wanted to suggest a realm where spirit forms just might exist.”
Italian journalists call on government to improve freelance working conditions
Industry groups in Italy are calling on the country’s government and ministry of work to fix minimum standards for the treatment and pay of freelance journalists, according to the website of Liberta di Stampa Diritto all’Informazione (LSDI).
It is absolutely unacceptable that independent work is paid with compensation so low that the vast majority of freelance journalists declare an average annual income that is lower than the poverty threshold indicated by ISTAT [the Italian statistics institute].
LSDI has also written and published an ebook on the working conditions for journalists in Italy.
Clay Shirky on the Times paywall, commodity markets and a ‘referendum on the future’
Media commentator, digital soothsayer and all-round interesting read Clay Shirky gives his views on News International’s paywalls at the Times and Sunday Times, the first figures for which were released last week.
‘Paywall thinking’, he suggests, may not be possible in a world where “the internet commodifies the business of newspapers”:
Over the last 15 years, many newspaper people have assumed continuity with the analog business model, which is to say they assumed that readers could eventually be persuaded or forced pay for digital editions. This in turn suggested that the failure of any given paywall was no evidence of anything other than the need to try again.
What is new about the Times’ paywall – what may in fact make it a watershed – isn’t strategy or implementation. What’s new is that it has launched as people in the news business are rethinking assumed continuity. It’s new because the people paying attention to it are now willing to regard the results as evidence of something. To the newspaper world, TimesSelect looked like an experiment. The Times and Sunday Times look like a referendum on the future.
Greenslade: Change of direction for Guardian Media Group?
Roy Greenslade reports on the Sunday Times’ coverage of a new direction for Guardian Media Group. According to the Times’ print edition yesterday, GMG is planning to separate its newspapers and their website from the rest of its multimedia assets.
The report follows previous claims by the paper that Andrew Miller, new GMG chief executive, is looking at a sale or stock market listing for its Trader division.
An interview with BBC World News Today presenter Zeinab Badawi
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has posted a video interview with BBC World News Today presenter Zeinab Badawi in which the broadcast journalist shares some of her views on media freedom in the UK and the world and describes her family’s move from Sudan to the UK.
In the old days we used to say ‘foreign news’. And ‘domestic news’. And now actually, it sounds a bit odd if we say foreign news and British news because the two live off each other. They’re almost one and the same.