Our RSS feeds
LATEST JOBS:
resize text: decrease text sizereset text size increase text size

Online journalism news

BBC News site introduces dual headlines for SEO

New system for journalists aims to improve news stories' reach


Burmese secret cameramen 'Z' and 'T' among Rory Peck Awards winners

Freelance current affairs camera staff working for Channel 4, CNN and Reuters honoured


New UK Radioplayer to stream over 400 national and local radio stations

Listeners will be able to search for news and music using new search technology


Tories could allow local newspapers to run TV and radio stations, says shadow culture minister

Jeremy Hunt called for a review of cross-media ownership rules at LSE event


PCC will not regulate blogs without consent, says chairman Buscombe

Any form of blog regulation would have to be non-statutory and consensual says letter to bloggers


Citizen journalism site Allvoices to pay professional journalists

New Provoices scheme will recruit qualified journalists as contributors


British Journal of Photography condemns government plans to change copyright licensing

Queen's Speech confirms intention to change digital licensing rules


Schibsted journalists offered paper round jobs or redundancy packages

Norwegian newspaper publisher offers part-time positions as alternative to redundancy


PCC phone hacking review to face scutiny from International Federation of Journalists

Global organisation to use PCC as 'case study' in review of self-regulatory bodies


#soe09: Times to focus on charging for digital editions; reject micropayments, says editor

James Harding elaborates on paper's plans to charge for digital news


Christine Buckley named editor of NUJ's The Journalist

Former Times journalist voted into editor role by union members


#soe09: BBC looking for local press partnerships; will add RSS newspaper feeds

Hull Daily Mail editor criticises BBC 'pretence of partnership'


#soe09: Local newspaper 'PR agencies' are revenue opportunity, says TM editorial director

In-house PR business and commercial video could be money makers for local media, says Neil Benson


#soe09: More open courts need strong local press to work, says Lord Chief Justice

Developments such as Supreme Court still need journalists to provide full benefit for public, says judge


#soe09: PCC should not be a statutory regulator, says chairman

Recent super-injunction debate shows importance of independent regulator, says Buscombe


New Online Fashion Agency site will promote freelance writers

Talent Pad section of site will help writers find fashion and retail commissions


RBI to close Contract Journal

Redundancies announced for construction title, Personnel Today and Road Transport group


New Channel 4 site analyses 'who knows who' in UK politics

Website teams up with mySociety and users to create crowdsourced tool


BBC to publish expenses of more than 100 senior staff

Salaries and expenses details of 107 top-earners to be released online


Libel costs are too high, says Carter-Ruck partner

Current state of UK libel prevents cases from going to trial and developing law, says Nigel Tait


Newspaper editors should withdraw from PCC for press freedom reform, says leading QC

PCC cannot push for libel reform and act as regulator, says Geoffrey Robertson QC


Cap libel costs and bring in single publication rule, say libel reform campaigners

New report from Index on Censorship and English PEN proposes 10 reforms for libel legislation in internet age


PCC to consider training group on self-regulation for newspaper journalists

Recommendation made by newspaper group as part of PCC inquiry into phone hacking


Guardian, Davies and Media Standards Trust challenge PCC's phone hacking report

Commission's report into News Group activities is complacent, pointless and dangerous, says Guardian


PCC finds no evidence of further phone hacking at News Group

Guardian stories prompted commission to investigate possibility of new breaches since Goodman, says PCC


theblogpaper secures partners for promotion and investment

Website and printed paper compiled by an online community of writers signed up new backers last month


Reuters backs multimedia journalism co-operative for Berlin Wall coverage

The Berlin Project will experiment with tools for next generation online journalism, says leader


Time running out for OhmyNews' members' club

Cit-j site's appeal for supporter donations falling short of 10,000 member target for 2009


'Absolute disgrace' if election leaders' debate not held, says Sky News political editor

Election trail footage is 'bogus' and excludes the public, says Adam Boulton in annual Tom Olsen lecture


Lord Falconer questions accuracy of 24-hour rolling news

Former secretary of state for justice challenged Sky News' Adam Boulton at Fleet Street event


PCC appoints Stephen Abell as new director

Abell promoted to replace outgoing head Tim Toulmin


Bureau of Investigative Journalism to recruit up to 20 journalists

More plans from UK's investigative journalism initiative


Reuters to host 'unconference' on social media and journalism

Participatory event will discuss how social media can impact offline problems


Global Voices to track suppression of free speech online with new site

Threatened Voices will visualise and monitor threats to bloggers and online writers


Outgoing NUJ Journalist editor urges journalists to seek funding however they can

Tim Gopsill said he still had faith in local resources at the CPBF 'Media for All' conference


Ian Cobain wins 2009 Paul Foot award

Cobain takes campaigning journalism prize for work on the treatment of terror suspects


PCC defends Dacre's position on code committee in face of online petition

An online petition says newspaper industry's self-regulatory body is weakened by 'preferential treatment'


STV seeks new online writing talent in columnist competition

Winner will receive six-month paid contract to write for stv.tv


PCG to survey freelancers for National Freelance Day

Online questionnaire seeks freelance journalists' views on the industry and their successes


PA 'public service reporting' scheme could cost £15-18m

National roll-out of scheme would need extensive funding, says training head


Media in Burma still face repression and fear in election build-up, says BBC editor

Corporation's Burma desk editor Soe Win Than says reporting from country is often 'impossible'


Unmasked blogger NightJack named judge for Orwell Prize 2010

Annual political prize for blogs, journalism and books launches at the Frontline Club


News saturation doesn't mean driving out original journalism, says Jeremy Paxman

BBC Newsnight presenter criticised the 'sausage machine' production of news, calling for more time and scepticism


Jeremy Paxman: US state evidence requires more suspicion after Iraq WMD 'hoodwink'

BBC Newsnight presenter says he and others made wrong judgement over Powell's UN presentation in 2003


Growing number of journalism students should be warned of 'jobs crisis', says former head of City University journalism school

Professor Adrian Monck joined world conference by videolink from Geneva


Jeff Jarvis: 'The future is entrepreneurial not institutional'

CUNY professor injected some optimism into conference


Outspoken MEP Hannan takes first Bastiat Prize for online journalism

Hannan named joint-winner in new category for his Telegraph blog


'Public needs the BBC more than ever', says corporation's director of vision

Corporation must continue to reinvent itself and open up archives, says Jana Bennett


Paul Foot Award 2009 shortlist announced

Six campaigns competing for annual prize


Jane Bown exhibition launches with 50 unseen portraits

Online interactive archive and new 'Exposures' exhibition open to all


JOB OF THE WEEK

Communications officer

With a communications qualification, experience of working with partner organisations and dispersed groups of people and some knowledge of agriculture for the NFU's Campaign for the Farmed Environment ...more

Freelancers for hire

...see all

DISPLAY ADVERTISING

image

Target our journalism community of 17,200 subscribers and 140k+ visitors monthly. Call Chris on 01273 384291

Advertisements

How fast is your broadband?

Broadband Speed

Test your speed now

Click for
mobile broadband deals from Mobile Broadband Genie


Compare Broadband

Alternatively take a look at mobile broadband packages.