A young British journalism student has reportedly been raped whilst on assignment in Calais.
The female student, allegedly from London, was investigating a story about asylum seekers when the attack occurred, the Mail reports.
ITV is to stream live video of this weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival to its London website.
A separate channel for the carnival has been set up on the ITV Local site, which will feature live footage of the carnival parade and interviews with performers.
Viewers are also able to upload their own clips of the event to the platform.
ITV has also created an interactive map, showing information of the parade route and facilities, as part of the channel.
The revamped site featuring more user-generated content will be rolled out early next year.
The Associated Press (AP) has launched a celebrity news service to expand its coverage of entertainment news.
Celebrity Extra, which includes video footage, is the result of a multi-million dollar investment by the agency, a press release from AP said.
New staff have been hired to work on the service and new video production technology has been bought for its Los Angeles, New York and London bureaux.
A photo version of the service will launch in September.
Steve Parry, former Reuters sports editor, has died today aged 64, Reuters has reported.
Parry, who worked for the media group for 34 years, was sports editor from 1982 until his retirement in 2000.
He had been suffering from a respiratory illness and died in hospital.
Parry joined Reuters’ London sports desk in 1966 and was appointed sports news editor in 1977.
After leaving the group, he became a consultant for the International Olympic Committee.
His death comes on the eve of the Beijing Olympics – an event Parry had covered on the previous 10 occasions, attending his first Summer Games in Mexico City in 1968.
“We at Reuters are devastated by the news. Steve was one of the finest journalists Reuters ever had and one of the greatest men I ever knew,” said Paul Radford, Reuters current sports editor and Parry’s former deputy.
“He was one of the most revered and respected personalities in the world of sports journalism and a monumental figure in the Olympic movement.”
Publishing firm ContentNext, which was recently acquired by Guardian Media Group, is recruiting for its UK digital media news site paidContent.
According to a post on the site by publisher and editor Rafat Ali, paidContent UK is looking for a London-based reporter to work on the site and across its international platforms – paidContent.org, mocoNews.net and contentSutra.com.
Ever wondered what kind of person could survive standing for hours on end trying to communicate with hurrying commuters? Current filmmaker Joe Oppenheimer speaks to the street vendors of London’s freesheets:
“Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press failed to draw any steam out of suggestions that they should merge yesterday as the London market, unsettled by fears for the economy, sank into the red,” so say a piece in the Independent that canvased opinion of leading mergers and aquisitions bank ABN Amro about the nightmare that is advertising reveune in regional newspaper publishing.
The bank stirred the pot by telling the Indy that given the problems faced by the media sector companies would increasingly look for industry consolidation.
“These are desperate times, and they call for desperate measures: we believe a Trinity/Johnston combination makes sense,” ABN said.
Plans proposed by London’s new mayor Boris Johnson to create a detailed crime map of the city have stalled because of legal concerns.
The Conservative party’s agenda to make data more widely available has raised concerns with the Information Commissioner’s Office, which says releasing such information could breach data protection laws.
The Royal Chartered Institute of Surveyors has also expressed fears that publishing a crime map could affect house prices.
Motorsport boss Max Mosley has launched a libel claim in the French courts against the News of the World over allegations he engaged in a Nazi-themed orgy.
The UK Sunday newspaper alleged that Mosley had been involved in a London orgy with five prostitutes and posted video of the affair on its website.
Moseley failed with a legal attempt in the English courts to get the video taken down and has now decided to pursue the matter in the French courts.
The action has been made possible because the print edition of News of the World is available in France and the online version was also accessible.
Moseley is also about to embark on a separate breach of privacy case in the UK. This issue has been scheduled for court in July.