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#wef12: Follow the World Editors Forum in Kiev

For the next few days I will be in Kiev to report from the World Editors Forum (and possibly also from sessions at the World Newspaper Congress).

Articles and blog posts will be published on Journalism.co.uk, and I will be tweeting from @journalism_live, with headlines also tweeted out on @journalismnews. You can also follow the hashtags #wef12 (forum) and #wnc12 (congress) to see live updates from those at the conferences.

Here is a link to the agenda.

BBC News: The editors’ views from the Leveson inquiry

BBC News has compiled a table of views as shared by newspaper editors at the Leveson inquiry, giving readers the opportunity to closely compare the standpoints of each editor on key points.

The table sets out “how the editors’ evidence compares” and includes key points on given by the editors “on researching stories”, “media regulation” and a “key quote”.

See the table here.

See Journalism.co.uk’s coverage of the Leveson inquiry here.

‘They provide the key for the map’: In defence of editors everywhere

First, we heard about the death of the sub-editor. The sub-editor, they said, is expendable. Next, from Johnston Press, came the death of the editor. Don’t bother reading what you publish, JP told editors.

Apparently, editing has fallen so far out of favour that a piece on the Atlantic’s website by Alexis Madrigal is entitled “Why editing could make a comeback.”

But the piece, along with a recent essay by Paul Ford which it cites, speaks out for the value of editors everywhere, “those whose names do not appear underneath the headline”.

Here’s my analogy. We take good roads for granted in the US; our highway system just works, so you start to think of it almost as geology, almost immutable and close to eternal. But if you take a drive on the backroads of the Yucatan, the forest encroaches, large potholes appear out of nowhere, and the signage is indecipherable, regardless of your level of Spanish.

The Internet can feel like a jungle, and journalists are in the business of providing paths through the territory. Writers might blaze the trails, but editors maintain the roads. The vines are creeping and the potholes are growing. And maybe letting the road deteriorate is really the only way to make audiences and media companies realize the value of those whose names do not appear underneath the headline.

Full post at this link…

British Society of Magazine Editors award winners

Last night the British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) named its 12 editors of the year along with a host of other awards, including an honorary award for publisher Felix Dennis.

Courtesy of the relaunched BSME website, here’s the full list of winners:

Editors of the year
Customer magazines (consumer readership) – Alec Marsh, Private Banking

Women’s magazines (monthly or less frequent) – Alexandra Shulman, Vogue

Women’s magazines (weekly or fortnightly) – Ali Hall, Look

Youth magazines – Beccy Bland, Sparkle World

Business & professional magazines – Danny Rogers, PR Week

Business & professional magazines (non-weekly) – Dickon Ross, Engineering & Technology

Men’s magazines – Dylan Jones, GQ

Entertainment & celebrity magazines – Mark Dinning, Empire

Lifestyle magazines – Maureen Rice, Psychologies

Special interest & current affairs magazines – Michael Harris, Golf Monthly

Newspaper magazines – Michelle Lavery, Telegraph Magazine

Customer magazines (business readership) – Paul Simpson, DCM

Others
Business magazine website of the year – Andre Rickerby, Drapersonline.com

Consumer magazine website of the year – David Moynihan, NME.com

The Mark Boxer Award – Felix Dennis

Editors’ editor of the year – Jane Bruton, editor-in-chief, Grazia

Art director of the year – Marissa Bourke, Elle

Launch of the year – Phil Hilton, ShortList

Campaign of the year – Rachel Downey, Time Out for Training campaign, Nursing Times

Innovation/Brand-building initiative of the year – Stuart Knott, Contact Sensory issue, Contact

The Fiona Macpherson new editor of the year – Tony Chambers, Wallpaper*