Journalism.co.uk will be at tonight’s ‘Sex, bugs and videotape’ debate organised by Intelligence Squared. Given this week’s renewed focus on phone hacking at the News of the World and debates on the privacy of footballers and public interest, tonight’s proceedings are pretty timely. Proposing the motion that the private lives of public figures deserve more [...]

The results of YouTube’s documentary experiment ‘Life in a Day’ are now up on the project’s channel. Life in a Day, which invited the public to submit videos documenting their experiences on July 24, received a total of 80,000 videos from 197 countries. YouTube claims it is the world’s largest user-generated film. Director Kevin Macdonald [...]

Tumblr has announced an upgrade of its attribution feature which will now only provide attribution to original sources within the post content, rather than all re-bloggers. In the announcement on its staff blog, Tumblr says the upgrade was needed to fix issues within its automatic ‘via’ system, such as links being dropped, credit being buried [...]

A relatively new blog has been set up by the Media Standards Trust to provide regular scrutiny of the work of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) and press self-regulation in the UK. As the allegations of phone hacking against the News of the World rumble on, PCC Watch could become a regular read. The Media [...]

Following the recently renewed phone hacking allegations aimed at the News of the World, lawyer and writer David Allen Green has a useful post on his Jack of Kent blog putting the issues into legal context, outlining the laws which apply to the unauthorised interception of voice messages. He advises that this includes Section 48 [...]

The battle to increase audiences is hardly a new challenge facing the media environment. Whether print readers, radio listeners or television viewers, it has generally been a case of the more the merrier. In the world of online journalism, where there is instant access to page view and retweet counters, the ‘success’ of a story [...]

Thomson Reuters’ global editor, multimedia, Chris Cramer on the future of broadcasting and why narrow-casting not linear television networks are the way forward: The days of linear television networks are coming to an end. I think only people with very large amounts of money or people who are stupid will launch linear television networks in [...]

Public service radio and TV shows in Sweden that encourage listeners to join or discuss stories on Facebook are in breach of the Swedish Radio and Television Act, according to a new ruling reported by Media Culpa. According to the Commission, it is accepted to inform the public of the existence of a Facebook page [...]

This is a cross post from Mary Hamilton.co.uk. Amongst other things, Mary is a senior reporter at Archant. You can follow her on Twitter here and read the original post on her blog here. An interesting post extolling the virtues of the paywall by Julien Rath as part of journalism.co.ukâ??s excellent TNTJ group blog has really gotten [...]

Robert Niles offers his top five tips on the Online Journalism Review website for students about to embark on a new journalism course. Tipster: Rachel McAthy. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones p...

John Mair, senior lecturer in journalism, University of Coventry

Details of up to 120 people found by police in original investigation but only a dozen people informed, admits John Yates today

Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has represented detained journalists, has been arrested on charges of anti-government propaganda

The Digital Journalism Diploma certificate is aimed at online journalists, PR and communications professionals

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Broadcaster is plotting text reports, tweets and audio updates from listeners and viewers about their problems with transport during the strikes

#followjourn: @willfindlater Who? Will Findlater, a self-confessed “man with an unfortunate name” and editor of Stuff Magazine. Where? Will has his own blog on the Stuff site. Contact? @willfindlater Just as we like to supply you with fresh and innovative tips every day, we’re recommending journalists to follow online too. They might be from any [...]

These are the latest editorial, PR and media job opportunities from this week on Journalism.co.uk’s jobs board Online editor You’ll be editing, producing and promoting engaging web content to help increase awareness of and encourage involvement in our work to improve the lives of consumers. Salary: £32K-£45K + benefits Which? London, United Kingdom >>more Talented [...]

The challenges facing locally and nationally owned publications are the subject of a post on the Online Journalism Review website by Robert Niles, who follows up on a previous post in which he questions the future of AOL’s hyperlocal start-up Patch.com and other national chains. Niles ha previously claimed that locally-owned publications today have cost [...]

Following the William Hague allegations sparked from posts within the blogging community last week, this weekend the media spotlight turned to Wayne Rooney as allegations relating to his private life were brought into the public domain by the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror, both appers accusing the footballer of having an affair [...]

This is without doubt a very serious crime story from WeAreCentralPA.com, but the headline did cause a childish giggle: (via Common Sense Journalism)Similar Posts: Columbia Journalism Review: Britishisms creeping in #Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – social media profile pictures Adweek: Atlanta Journal-Constitution advertises print as digital escape Andy Piper: Chasing the Daily Mail [...]

Interesting stance from classified listings website Craigslist on adverts for adult services, given recent debate around newspaper sex ads: the site has decided to censor such ads following growing legal pressure. Full story on Brand Republic at this link…Similar Posts: Sunemployment: Sun turns free classified ads into campaign Editors Weblog: US newspaper and TV websites [...]

Fascinating audio on Iraqi fixers and their fate as US journalists and troops leave Iraq, courtesy of On The Media, focusing on Hussam Ali al-Mussawi, who has worked with titles including the San Francisco Chronicle and New York Times. Full On the Media post at this link…Similar Posts: NYTimes.com: Iraqi PM pledges plots of land [...]

Last week several news outlets, including the BBC, reported on a visit to Downing Street by the BBC’s director general Mark Thompson, who was allegedly there to discuss BBC news coverage of the government’s spending review. It was suggested that such a visit may risk damaging the impartiality of the broadcaster, with Thompson reportedly trying [...]

Do you know the dumbest thing I ever heard a journalist say about paying for content? Well, I’ll tell you. I was at an event called something like “The future of photojournalism: what the hell are we going to do?!” last winter, hosted by Amnesty International. It was full of photojournalists scratching their heads about [...]