Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 12 October 2011 at 16:25
Tags: Journalism
Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre is not only the longest serving, but the best paid and most powerful editor on Fleet Street.
So his comments to the Leveson Inquiry this morning were hugely significant – because where he leads, others will surely follow. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 10 October 2011 at 18:03
Tags: Press Gazette
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Six of the best from the October edition of Press Gazette magazine:
What exactly does it mean to be a ‘commercial’ editor? We get answers from Retail Week’s Tim Danaher, Damian Wild at Estates Gazette, Brand Republic Group editor in chief Danny Rogers, Lem Bingley from Incisive Media and The Grocer’s Adam Leyland.
Former Take a Break editor John Dale investigates journalism’s freebie culture – and finds out about a press conference organised by Asda where journalists were rewarded with a £30 gift voucher for turning up.
Peter Kirwan looks into a bid to secure charity status (and a huge number of financial benefits) for local newspapers.
Deputy editor Francis Wheen on 50 years of Private Eye: “There’s nothing more satisfying than writing back to a lawyer, thank you for your letter – our reply to you is ‘fuck off’”.
Freelance of the month Andrew Crofts reveals how he earns £1,000 a day as a ghost writer.
Bath Chronicle editor Sam Holliday on how he successfully took the former daily title weekly in 2007.
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Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 23 September 2011 at 09:28
Tags: Journalism
In these days of double dip recessions, newspaper closures, lay-offs, pay freezes, plummeting public trust – I could go on – journalists need heroes.
And documentary: Page One – Inside The New York Times – provides a great one in the guise of media columnist David Carr.
The film, on limited general release in the UK from today, tells the story of a year in the life of the New York Times – starting in 2009 – at a time when the future of America’s greatest journalistic institution looked in peril.
Carr provides a wonderful antidote to the many new media  true believers who seem to delight in watching the demise of big media while at the same basing their parasitical businesses on big media’s content.
In a Q and A after a screening of the film in London last night, Carr – a former jailed drug addict and single father who knows a thing or two about overcoming adversity – was on irascible form. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 21 September 2011 at 13:36
Tags: Journalism
Press Gazette subscribers can now read the magazine on a new app for Android mobile devices as well as on iPads.
Exact Editions has launched a new app for Android phones which means readers can download the current edition of the magazine and browse an archive of Press Gazette magazine editions dating back to 2005.
Click here to download the Exactly Android app and start reading the digital edition of Press Gazette on your mobile phone.
Click here for more details about reading Press Gazette’s digital edition and becoming a subscriber.
All Press Gazette subscribers now qualify for free access to the digital edition and more than 200 archived editions of the magazine.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 21 September 2011 at 11:18
Tags: Journalism, News of the World, new media
Leading national newspaper editors last night insisted that the system of press self-regulation can be reformed rather than scrapped.
But, as former BBC chairman of governors Sir Christopher Bland put it at the same event,  editors should not underestimate the pressure for change. After listening to their pleas that the industry can put its own house in order he said: “It is useless to fart against the thunderstorm”. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 15 September 2011 at 09:48
Tags: Indepedent, Journalism, Journalists
The Johann Hari plagiarism row highlights a number of weaknesses both of the current system of press self regulation and of the culture of British journalism.
By making things up and stealing other people’s work Hari committed one of the worst breaches of journalistic ethics there is. But when this row surfaced back in June it was not something which the Press Complaints Commission was able to tackle.
The PCC is basically a dispute-resolution surface – but here, no-one was making a complaint to the PCC. Bloggers like Brian Whelan had merely done some digging and found out that a lot of Hari’s work was not what it purported to be. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 13 September 2011 at 11:47
Tags: Journalism, Journalists
Essex Chronicle editor Alan Geere scored a canny PR coup yesterday with his announcement that applicants for a number of reporter vacancies at his group of weeklies can only apply via Twitter. (It was reported on Press Gazette, Holdthefrontpage and the Greenslade blog – in that order!).
But limiting reporters to only 140 characters in a Twitter-only application has a few drawbacks.
For one, applying via Twitter means they have to do so publicly – ruling out those who already work at other newspapers.
For another, letting those who wish to write long and verbose covering letters do so is very easy way of weeding out the wheat from the chaff. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 12 September 2011 at 11:30
Tags: Journalists, local
The Ipswich sex-ads ban story again raises the issue of whether or not local newspapers should make moral judgements on who they take money from.
Who could read the comments of former policeman Neil Boast (as exclusively reported by Press Gazette) and not think that the reputation of any paper would be sullied by carrying these sort of ads?
Boast regularly raided brothels which had advertised in local newspapers: The Ipswich Evening Star and East Anglian Daily Times.
The women involved were “always trafficked” he said. According to Boast, the men using such services would say: “Look, it’s in the paper, how can it be wrong?”.
It is surprising that only now, three years after the murders of five prostitutes in Ipswich, has action been taken by the papers in the town. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 29 August 2011 at 14:18
Tags: Journalism
Six of the best from the September edition of Press Gazette magazine:
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Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 26 August 2011 at 10:17
Tags: Journalism, Journalists, Law, Magazines, National Newspapers
Reading about the thousands of pounds worth of free stuff accepted by an un-named magazine fashion editor in The Times this week put me in mind of a particularly successful looter.
Swag trousered by the magazine stylist included: a Blackberry in its case, a pair of diamond earrings and an Apple laptop. Rioters who made off with far less earlier this month are now serving a lengthy prison sentence. (more…)
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