DocumentCloud still looking for more collaborators; Amazon Web Services set to partner

Last week we reported on DocumentCloud’s new partner, Thomson Reuters and its long list of ‘beta-testers’ including one from the UK – the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) based at City University, London. To re-cap, DocumentCloud is a an open-source platform to make data more easily accessible, pointing users to documents hosted elsewhere, similar to a [...]

Follow the Labour Party Conference #Twinge: live updates here tonight (20.15 BST)

If you won’t be in Brighton’s Grand tonight for the Twitter debate hosted by Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy, then follow the live stream below. You TWEET if you want to: the web is for opposition, not for governing: 20.15 – 21.45pm: Debate organised by Channel 4 and Fishburn Hedges: Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, Rt Hon Ben [...]

#FollowJourn @charlesarthur/technology editor

#FollowJourn: Charles Arthur Who? Technology editor at the Guardian. What? Arthur was previously technology editor at the Independent, writing about technology, science and the environment before going freelance. Now he edits the Guardian’s weekly technology supplement and site.  Where? @charlesarthur and www.charlesarthur.com Contact? Via Twitter or his blog. Just as we like to supply you with fresh and innovative tips [...]

George Ayittey: ?Freedom of expression was not invented by the West?

On a recent BBC World Service programme ‘The Forum’, Ghanaian-American economist George Ayittey shared his 60 second idea to change the world – part of the show at this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0048s8s (September 20, 2009). He is @ayittey on Twitter. “[T]he UN should expel those countries that do not respect freedom of expression, which is Article 19 [...]

Will Time Warner sell Time magazine?

Reuters is reporting, originally via BusinessWeek, that Time Warner Inc  will eventually sell the Time Inc magazine unit and could buy holdings in its core entertainment category – according to Gordon Crawford, managing director of its largest shareholder. “Time Warner just spun off their cable division, they are going to sell their print division, they are [...]

SMH.com.au: News Corp in ?second phase? of paid-for content plan

The Sydney Morning Herald has obtained an email to News Corp online staff, from the company’s digital chief executive, Richard Freudenstein, indicating that paid-for content plans, as announced by Murdoch in August, were now in a ’second phase’. “The key points from Mr Freudenstein’s communique to News Digital Media (NDM) staff were that the company was [...]

AP Polanski memo published as news story: still live

At the time of writing, this is still live – a published Associated Press story that looks rather more like an internal memo. ‘OK, can you do some more probing?’ is quite an unusual intro. It can be seen on Google hosted news (published 19 hours ago) and Forbes.com. Twitter users have spotted but the AP [...]

Paperhouse: Jon Snow is pro-privacy law ? ?tabloids are going out of business anyway?

Journalism.co.uk had this on its to-do list for this morning, but Sarah Ditum got there first and picked up Jon Snow’s comments from his reverse-role interview with Ann Widdecombe in the Guardian magazine on Saturday. The Channel 4 News journalist – and Widdecombe reckons this is her scoop – would welcome a privacy act and says [...]

paidContent: WaPo?s social media guidelines in full

Last week, the Washington Post issued a new social media policy, to deal with its journalists’ use of individual accounts. Raju Narisetti, one of two managing editors, took the decision to close down his Twitter account, after the views expressed in some of his tweets were called into question. paidContent has got hold of the full text [...]

#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk ? basic HTML for journalists

Online editor Christian Dunn points us to a video withbasic HTML for journalists. Tipster: Judith Townend.

To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.

NUJ condemns Trinity Mirror share 'handouts' to executives

NUJ members in Wales question high share payments for executives, but company denies their value

'Aggressively expanding' FT Alphaville will stay free; could launch standalone iPhone app

FT Alphaville - now managed from the US - has ambitious international plans afoot

Labour conference wearies political hack (and it?s only day one) #lab09

The Guardian’s assistant editor and esteemed political pundit Michael White was spotted taking a well-timed, and no doubt well-earned, nap during the opening proceedings of the Labour party conference in Brighton today. Shame he couldn’t have spent the day lazing in the sun in a deckchair with a knotted handkerchief on his head… Similar Posts: Green paper [...]

A journalistic limbo until we reach The New World

According to many, the perfect storm is approaching. The winds have been whipping for a while. But there’s a problem. The Old King is dying but the New King, apparently, isn’t quite ready yet. Clay Shirky, internet theorist and the harbinger-in-chief of newspaper death, encapsulated the problem at a recent Harvard Shorenstein Center talk: “We are [...]

Update on cuts at Trinity Mirror?s Media Wales ? 15 (.2) jobs at risk

Yesterday we reported how 13.2 jobs could go at Media Wales, subsidary of Trinity Mirror which publishes The Western Mail, The South Wales Echo, Wales on Sunday and the Celtic series of weekly papers. Union members at Media Wales will hold a strike ballot, after they were not guaranteed there would be no compulsory redundancies. Two [...]