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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 11-17 June

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The top 10 most-read news stories and blog posts this week on Journalism.co.uk were:

1. BBC developing new iPhone app for field reporters

2. BBC Trust chairman Chris Patten vows to protect World Service from cuts

3. Bahrain to sue Independent over ‘defamatory’ articles

4. Economist reveals download numbers for iPhone and iPad apps

5. Local ad network Addiply secures investment to take business ‘to next stage’

6. Guardian announces new ‘digital-first’ strategy amid losses

7. BBC puts Television Centre up for sale

8. FT web-based iPad and iPhone app a ‘wake-up call’ to publishers

9. Sunday Times apologises to John Prescott over false quote

10. Journalism students travel to Poland for newspaper’s social media experiment

The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 4-10 June

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The top 10 most-read news stories and blog posts this week on Journalism.co.uk were:

1. Ten fantastic apps, tips and tools for recording audio

2. Twitter users face prosecution if they breach injunctions, warns attorney general

3. FT looks to bypass Apple charges with new web-based iPad app

4. Trinity Mirror to cut 90 editorial jobs at Daily Record and Sunday Mail

5. Internships are a mix of exploitation and privilege, says Ross Perlin

6. ‘Stunned’ NUJ in talks with Trinity Mirror over Daily Record job cuts

7. Samira Ahmed to leave Channel 4

8. John Bercow calls the Daily Mail a ‘sexist, racist, bigoted, comic’

9. WordPress rolls out Twitter and Facebook comments options

10. News Corp outlines ‘freemium’ subscription model for Australian


The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 28 May-3 June

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The top 10 most-read news stories and blog posts this week on Journalism.co.uk were:

1. Julian Assange wins Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism

2. Mail Online expected to become world’s most popular news website

3. Twitter’s new ‘follow’ button encourages readers to follow reporters

4. How the five journalists with the greatest online influence use social media

5. Five great journalist portfolio and CV websites

6. Bureau of Investigative Journalism to launch new blog later this year

7. #newsrw: Heather Brooke – ‘How do any journalists in the UK do their job?’

8. Visualisation shows the topics New York Times journalists are writing about

9. How newspapers can use Facebook more effectively

10. Complaint against i newspaper for ‘misleading’ claim of no celebrity gossip upheld

#newsrw: How to follow today’s news:rewired event

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Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired – noise to signal event is taking place today at Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf, London.

The one-day conference is focusing on data journalism and how to filter the noise of large datasets, social networks, and audience metrics into a clear signal.

The key-note speaker is journalist, author and freedon-of-information campaigner Heather Brooke, who is best known for her role in bringing MPs expenses to light.

Other speakers include key players from the BBC, the Guardian, Reuters News, the Telegraph, News International, the Economist and Channel 4 News, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Press Association and Sky News, plus lots of smaller organisations specialising in data, social media and journalism.

To keep up-to-date with what is happening today, follow the #newsrw hashtag, @newsrewired on Twitter, posts and a liveblog on newsrewired.com and stories here on Journalism.co.uk.

You can also search stories, photos, videos and audio across the web by using the #newsrw hashtag.

The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 13-20 May

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The top 10 most-read news stories and blog posts this week on Journalism.co.uk were:

1. Journalists increasingly using social media as news source, finds study

2. Sky News to stream live coverage of UK supreme court

3. How to: liveblog – lessons from hyperlocal, regional, and national news sites

4. Sun loses high court bid to name footballer in affair story

5. YouTube launches memorial channel for journalists

6. Growing master list of all UK journalists on Twitter #UKjourn

7. Jenni Russell wins 2011 Orwell Prize for Journalism

8. Nieman Journalism Lab launches ‘future of news encyclopaedia’

9. Telegraph: Lawyers apply to access to Sun journalists’ emails and texts

10. Al Jazeera journalist tells of ‘terrifying experience’ in Syrian detention

Journalism.co.uk’s top five journalism bloggers and tweeters in 2010

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There are hundreds of people around the UK who are a dab hand at covering the world of media on their blogs and on twitter, and so it has been a difficult task drawing up lists of our personal favourites. But we have done some list-whittling and each present our five favourite bloggers and five favourite tweeters.

Please add your own in the comments below, or via Twitter to @journalismnews.

Our top five journalism blogs and tweeters of 2010

As chosen by John Thompson, founder, Journalism.co.uk:

Best blogs:

Nieman Lab
10,000 words
Virtual Economics
The Media Blog
Wannabe Hacks – for the initiative shown

Best on Twitter:

@malcolmcoles, @currybet, @psmith, @joshhalliday, @suellewellyn





As chosen by Laura Oliver, editor, Journalism.co.uk:

Best blogs:

Currybet – Martin Belam
Headlines and Deadlines – Alison Gow
David Higgerson
Ed Walker
Feverbee

Best on Twitter:

@psmith, @joshhalliday, @gdnlocal, @sashers, @fieldproducer






Special mentions for their recent WikiLeaks twitter coverage: @aleximostrous, @fieldproducer, @newsbrooke. And for tweeting about being shot during Thailand’s Red Shirt protests: @andrewbuncombe






As chosen by Joel Gunter, sub-editor, Journalism.co.uk:

Best blogs:

Currybet – Martin Belam
After Deadline – New York Times
 Pressthink – Jay Rosen
Headlines and Deadlines – Alison Gow
Malcolm Coles

Best on Twitter:

@sashers – for her formidable live tweeting
@aleximostrous – for his Twitter WikiLeaks coverage
@substuff – for hilarious insights into the world of consumer magazine subbing
@guardianstyle – for running an on-demand style guide on Twitter
@wannabehacks – just missed the blog category but deserve a mention for hard graft and good content






#newsrw: How to follow news:rewired – beyond the story

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If you’re not able to make Journalism.co.uk’s digital journalism event news:rewired – beyond the story taking place tomorrow (Thursday 16 December), never fear – we’ll be providing lots of coverage of the day’s events, news and views on newsrewired.com, Journalism.co.uk and Twitter. You can read more about who’s attending and who’ll be speaking on http://www.newsrewired.com.

On newsrewired.com there will be blog posts covering each session and a liveblog of the day broken down into the sessions again from Wannabe Hacks’ Nick Petrie and Matt Caines.

The BBC College of Journalism will be on handing filming snippets from the day’s action, which will also be posted on the site and speaker presentations will be added to the website as soon as possible after the event.

To follow others’ tweets and blog posts about the day, use the newsrewired.com buzz page or follow the hashtag #newsrw. We’ll also be tweeting from the @newsrewired Twitter account.

Making data work for you: one week till media140’s dataconomy event

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There’s just one week to go before media140’s event on data and how journalists and media can make better use of it. Featuring the Guardian’s news editor for data Simon Rogers and Information is Beautiful author David McCandless, the event will discuss the commercial, ethical and technological issues of making data work for you.

Rufus Pollock, director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, and Andrew Lyons, commercial director of UltraKnowledge will also be speaking. Full details are available at this link.

Journalism.co.uk is proud to be a media partner for media140 dataconomy. Readers of Journalism.co.uk can sign-up for tickets to the event at this link using the promotional code “journalist”. Tickets are currently available for £25, which includes drinks.

The event on Thursday 21 October will be held at the HUB, King’s Cross, from 6:30-9:30pm.

#WEFHamburg: WaPo mulling its own paywall plus all the news from the World Editors Forum

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Yesterday at the World Editors Forum in Hamburg, Raju Narisetti, managing editor of the Washington Post, told Journalism.co.uk that the Post was not ruling out its own paid-content model.

The quality of the content we produce needs to be well funded, and one of the ways could be to make users pay for it, not all of it. I am not a big believer of putting everything behind a paywall. I am a big believer in saying we should monetise.

More power to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in figuring out and if they do we would be happy to look at that. We may find our own way.

You can read the full interview with Narisetti at this link and below are all the stories from the WEF meeting on Journalism.co.uk:



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