Diabetes UK has released a new guide aimed at helping journalists in their reporting on diabetes.
According to a release, as well as offering information on diabetes, the guide “also looks at the role journalists can play in challenging misconceptions around the condition” and offers some reporting tips.
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An annual study into how UK journalists feel social media impacts on their work was announced this week by Canterbury Christ Church University and public relations and media services outlet Cision.
The report’s findings are based on 769 responses from UK journalists. According to a release from the university the study found an “increasing number of concerns about productivity, privacy and the future of journalism”.
For example, the number of journalists who said they felt social media improved their productivity fell from 49 per cent in 2011 to 39 per cent in 2012.
At the same time, the percentage of those who disagreed that social media improved productivity increased from 20 per cent to 34 per cent. Journalists were also less positive this year about the impact of social media on their relationships with their audience.
In general, they think that social media allows greater engagement with their audience, but the number who strongly agreed with that sentiment dropped from 43 per cent to 27 per cent.
The study can be downloaded from Cision. For more on the findings see this report by the Drum.
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.
The National Union of Journalists is calling on the Scottish government to carry out an inquiry into the effect that editorial cutbacks are having on “a free and diverse media in the country”.
A similar inquiry was held by the Welsh Assembly last year – with a report expected shortly. The union’s Scottish organiser Paul Holleran said in a release:
The NUJ in Scotland has sought political support for our hard pressed industry for a number of years but the situation has deteriorated to where there is a serious threat to the future of titles but also to the existence of some newspaper groups. We believe there is a duty on government to intervene and help create a safer, robust environment for the press and media to operate.
A motion at the Scottish Trades Union Congress said:
Congress calls on the general council to urge the Scottish Government to set up urgently a Commission of Inquiry into the future of the media in Scotland, and to call on all member unions and the Scottish Government to promote the survival of thriving and responsible media, including:
- supporting the creation of a Scottish Digital Broadcasting Network;
- supporting the development of trust models of media ownership, such as the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian and Observer Group;
- campaigning for the development of new forms of community media;
- identifying and prosecuting media behaviour that breaches privacy laws;
- developing new regulatory mechanisms to replace the discredited UK Press Complaints Commission; and
- encouraging the development of new sources of funding for investigative journalism, including academic institutions and foundations concerned with civil society and democracy.
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for the week ending Sunday 11 March
No other Eurozone leaders were mentioned in UK press coverage.
Rob Davies is a city correspondent at the Daily Mail. After he achieved a 2.1 in his MA in English and German Literature, Rob went to the Cardiff Journalism School where he completed the Newspaper Journalism course. He was awarded the MHP Communications ’30 to watch’ award earlier this year. Follow him on twitter @ByRobDavies
Lennox Morrison is a freelance journalist who writes for the Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Wall Street Journal Europe, Metropolitan and the Reader’s Digest. She was an assistant editor for the Scottish Daily Mail as well as being a celebrity interviewer for the Scottish on Sunday. Lennox has also had three books published, Second Chance Tuesday (2004), Scottish Girls About Town (2003) and Re-inventing Tara (2002). Follow her on twitter @LENNOXinFRANCE
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Valentine’s Day, Whitney Houston and Rangers FC
for the week ending Sunday 19 February
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Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
Celebrity vs Serious
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
Who wrote a lot about… Iran
Long form journalism
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Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations. Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources.
Redknapp and Capello, Syria and Homs, and Leveson
for the week ending Sunday 12 February
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Celebrity vs Serious
Eurozone leaders (top ten by number of articles)
Who wrote a lot about… Fabio Capello
Long form journalism
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Read the Hacked Off live blog on the Leveson inquiry and follow our Twitter feed @hackinginquiry.
Visit the Media Standards Trust’s Churnalism.com – a public service for distinguishing journalism from churnalism
Read the MST’s submission to parliament’s Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions and the House of Lords Communications Select Committee on investigative journalism
For the latest instalment of Tobias Grubbe, journalisted’s 18th century jobbing journalist, go to journalisted.com/tobias-grubbe
Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations. Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources.
Journalisted Weekly: Leveson Inquiry, Tahrir Square and England RFU
for the week ending Sunday 27 November
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Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
Celebrity vs. serious
Arab spring (countries & current leaders)
Who wrote a lot about… clashes between the Government and Unions over planned public sector pensions strikes
Long form journalism
Journalists who have updated their profile
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Read about our campaign for the full exposure of phone hacking and other illegal forms of intrusion at the Hacked Off website
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The Orwell Prize 2012 is now open for entries following a launch debate on ‘Writing the Riots’
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For the rest of this week I will be reporting from the World Editors Forum in Vienna, covering the panel sessions, report presentations and debates which kick off today. This year’s conference will look at “the multiple facets of an editor’s job”, from businessman to community manager, and the ways to perform best in each role while maintaining good content.
The digital world of news is rapidly changing and the opportunities for newspapers, as well as the challenges that accompany them, are undergoing constant evolution. How can newspapers continue to fulfill their core mission of producing high quality journalism, and even improve on it, despite the myriad of new responsibilities of their editors?
Coverage of the event will be posted on Journalism.co.uk and the Editors’ Blog, and you can also follow my tweets on some of the sessions from @journalism_live.