MEN harnesses multimedia for English Degence League protest coverage
The Manchester Evening News scored an online success last Saturday as 17,400 people followed its live news story as a protest organised by the anti-Islamic political group the English Defence League...
View ArticleIndependent launches 2009 Wyn Harness young journalist prize
UPDATE (25/11): DEADLINE FOR PRIZE EXTENDED, SEE BELOW The Independent has launched the second year of the Wyn Harness Prize for Young Journalists – a competition for any aspiring newspaper journalists...
View Article‘Individualised’ newspapers launched at Ifra Expo 2009
You might think now is not the right economic climate in which to launch a new print title, but digital document management company Océ and founder of the Digital Newspaper Network, is taking its...
View Article#FollowJourn: @ruthofford/music journalist
#FollowJourn: Ruth Offord Who? Freelance music journalist. What? Writes for This Is Fake DIY, Rock Sound, The Fly, Clash Magazine. Where? On Twitter and writes her blog. Contact? Through This Is Fake...
View ArticleUS National Magazine Awards 2010 to award podcasts, video and mobile
The US-based National Magazine Awards are adding 12 new categories to the original 22 so that online magazines can receive the awards. The new categories will reward work in mobile media, interactive...
View ArticleNME launches new paid-for iPhone app
NME has launched a new application for the iPhone – at 59p a download. The application will offer users ‘iconic images’ from the magazine and photos from the app can also be bought. The bought images...
View Article#FollowJourn: @ourman/journalist and blogger
#FollowJourn: Steve Jackson Who? Blogger, journalist and PR. What? Frequent twitterer, blogger and journalist based in Hanoi. Where? Right now, Hanoi. In the past: Cameroon, Newcastle and Granada....
View ArticleNOTW website sees record traffic after Stephen Gately report
Visitor numbers to the News of the World’s website reached a record daily high of 585,000 last Sunday, according to the title. NOTW’s of pop singer Stephen Gately’s death, which ran that day, boosted...
View ArticleDear Deidre invite sparks criticism from Community Care magazine
Community Care has once more challenged the Sun’s attitude to social workers following an invitation from the General Social Care Council to its annual conference to the paper’s problem page editor...
View ArticleGuild of Health Writers announces awards winners
The winners of the Guild of Health Writers Health Writing Awards were announced last week with prizes for Reader’s Digest, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. “I was amazed by the wide range and...
View ArticleCJR takes on redundant journalists
Four laid-off journalists have been recruited by the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) as part of the industry publication’s new Encore Fellowship initiative to give redundant journalists more job...
View Article#FollowJourn: Peter Moore/digital media blogger
#FollowJourn: Peter Moore Who? Editor of online content for a search agency based in London / digital media blogger What? Former journalist and magazine editor; blogging since 2006 Where? @petermoore...
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