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09.16.08Press Gazette - welcome to planet ThargPress Gazette is advertising for something called an "online reporter". Apparently, this person's role will be to "break news stories about the magazine, online and newspaper industries, blog and contribute to the magazine". The publication's advert says that the ideal candidate to be "online reporter" will: "...have knowledge of and good contacts within the journalism industry and be able to break stories and keep abreast of breaking news, writing for the website and the the wire..." Continue Reading... Related posts:Press Gazette, stop whining… you’re killing yourselves So, Press Gazette covered the row stirred up by my...The Thanet Gazette - will the last journalist ...
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08.27.08How lean does a media company need to be?When the cost of publishing has fallen to zero, who in their right mind could disagree with the chief executive of Fairfax, David Kirk, when he says that "media companies fit for the modern media world need to be lean and agile"? What worries me is how, no matter how many staff they cut, big media companies will ever be able to compete with start-up web publishers who use open-source software, have no offices, no staff, no overheads and no risk. Related posts:Web last: The Bowling Green Daily News Thanks to Simon Owens for pointing out the Bowling Green...Asda’s magazine demands … ...
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08.16.08Press Gazette, stop whining… you’re killing yourselvesSo, Press Gazette covered the row stirred up by my comments about The Guardian's pay-per-click strategy and its purchase of the keywords 'Madeleine McCann' as Google sponsored links. The story appeared - for those of you who still bother to buy the thing - on Thursday on page 3 and on the website a few hours later. Press Gazette made no attempt to contact me. They did contact the Telegraph for a comment - which was supplied by TMG's head of audience development, Julian Sambles - but didn't bother to include it in the article. But the laziness of UKPG's journalists ...
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08.15.08Renaissance journalists - please apply withinThe Telegraph Media Group yesterday advertised a host of new jobs within editorial. Most of these positions are Content Editors - journalists who will work across all the group's platforms - print, web and (eventually) video. TMG is the first media group in the UK to try this approach and, having been involved in its conception, I'm sure that it's the right one: platforms are converging again so it makes perfect sense that jobs converge, too. Content Editors will be primarily involved in print, web and video production. But there's also scope for some writing and commissioning. These will be jobs ...
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