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senior reporter @pressgazette . previously @newsguardtech / demonstrating boomerangs at hamleys. hmu @ bron.maher @pressgazette .co.uk. he/him
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the magic of bereal: how many other apps would force the french prime minister to reveal the sadness in his eyes the morning after a terrible electoral defeat
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british journalists i think it is useful for us to understand that, when we read that new york journalists are making like $70,000pa, that doesn't mean they're living like a londoner making £55,000, it means they're living like a londoner who makes like £30,000
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reach CEO jim mullen gave his scripted statement to staff this afternoon about the new redundancy round - but the company didn't turn off anonymous commenting on the stream, which gave employees quite an opportunity to vent
(more on the cuts here: )
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me when i'm the editor of the daily telegraph
you big greedy HOG
@pret
i will never support your fake food ass again. I could maybe forgive you charging £6.50 for this if it was full to the BRIM but charging all that for a half full pot of pasta is demonic. You will be dealt with!!!!!!!!
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tfw you don't know whether it's contempt of court to publish a picture of the new yorker cover in a london newsagent so you have to scribble over it on your phone
A New Yorker story revisiting the conviction of Lucy Letby has been published in the title’s print and app editions despite being blocked on its website to comply with reporting restrictions.
The case may set up a showdown with England's justice system:
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breakout character of the 2024 election campaign is the times radio bus
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tfw you bought too many adidas sambas
The Telegraph reported that Sky News has cut freelance budgets for roles like producers and guest bookers, but a spokesperson for the broadcaster said: "Sky News spending is up 10% on last year."
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remember when dan wootton called johnny depp a wife beater in a sun headline, prompting depp to sue for libel?
well despite news uk's victory in that case, wootton now says he regrets writing it - arguing it was an infringement of depp's privacy:
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a lot of good lines in gary younge's lecture, but reckon this one is the best
Journalist
@garyyounge
has warned that the narrow range of most British journalists’ backgrounds means it takes “a seismic event” for journalists to take an interest in problems that are for many people everyday realities
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i went on an eighteen-hour reporting expedition to my living room. learnt a lot about GB News but the main lesson was eamonn holmes is quite jokes
People say a lot of things about GB News: that it’s ridden with glitches, that it’s a hotbed of right-wing conspiracies, that nobody watches.
To check how true those claims are, Press Gazette had
@Bron_Maher
watch the channel from 5.59am to midnight
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i did ask if it wasn't a bit incongruous to use queer slang for their podcast title given the telegraph's relationship with the queer community ain't exactly great atm
(turns out they weren't aware it was a gay thing)
Camilla Tominey said the name The Daily T "was inspired by my 15-year-old daughter, because — I think this has now gone out of fashion — but she used to say to me, ‘Mum, what's the tea?’, which apparently means ‘what's the goss?’”
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got my new press card, always very charmed by the 'graphic design is my passion'-ass look of the thing
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beginning to think tiktok has limitations as a breaking news platform
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thank you to whoever signed up the press gazette all-staff email to a muslim dating site. i pray we are wed soon
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lobby pass when
Can the attendees of a sex club predict the turnout of the UK elections?
@Bron_Maher
says YES, and does so quite beautifully for
@The_Fence_Mag
#19
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i overstate the figures, apparently! but idk, all i can tell you is i know a lot of young graduates in both cities and seemingly everyone at my seniority/sector in new york is on astronomically greater pay but lives in a matchbox they sublet from a cockroach
Nahhhhhh this is nonsense. $70k puts you into the top 30% of income earners in NYC. £30k doesn't even put you into the top 50% in London
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congratulations to all the business insider staff who will no longer have to spend 15 second of each introduction they make to a stranger explaining that they work for 'insider/business insider'
Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget steps aside as CEO. Barbara Peng, president since 2021, succeeds him. And yes you read that right - Insider is rebranding back to Business Insider
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breaking: tom newton dunn leaves news uk
braking: me, to copy check this story
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going on radio 4's you and yours at ~12:30 to talk about why some news websites are asking readers to pay up if they don't consent to third-party cookies. sorry in advance for my current fluish rasp
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pretty funny that this label was applied to the
@BBC
account - which is mostly taken up with promoting BBC entertainment and talk programmes - and not
@BBCNews
. i'm pleased by the implication that drag race UK is a whitehall-sponsored propaganda op
BBC objects to "government-funded media" label it was given on Twitter. "The BBC is, and always has been, independent. We are funded by the British public through the licence fee" NPR has stopped using its own main Twitter account in protest at its label
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this is a weird one: the BBC provides ~£37k per local democracy reporter outside london. the NUJ says newsquest is paying the minimum stipulated salary of ~£24k to most of its LDRs.
newsquest says that missing £13k per LDR is taken up with other employment costs
Regional publisher Newsquest is facing questions from the NUJ over an apparent £10,000 gap between the funding it receives from the BBC for each Local Democracy Reporter it employs and what those reporters are actually paid by the publisher
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member-funded novara expands north:
We're delighted to announce that Craig Gent has become Novara Media's first North of England Editor.
You can follow him at
@VivaHarehills
.
Photo:
@atgphotographer
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"My misinformation review, The Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, has been retracted due to misinformation"
“The Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review has admitted to publishing misinformation.
“The journal retracted an article that concluded a slavery reparations advocacy group discouraged Black voters from participating in the 2020 election”
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thank you to ian hislop for the two minute average read time on this article
Ian Hislop on journalism, ‘privilege’ of editing and why he is committed to print
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sometimes when i was a kid if i had an unrecoverably bad start to a game of smash bros or something i would spend the rest of the match deliberately trying to do as poorly as possible by e.g. throwing myself off the edge of the map, exploding myself, etc. think this is like that
On a visit to the Titanic Quarter today, I asked the Prime Minister if he is captaining a sinking ship going into this election
@BelfastLive
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my pitch that i cycle around richmond park looking for daniel khalife as a press gazette exclusive was met with laughter by the editors, which i will interpret at approval
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...is there somebody out there who thought the spotify daylists were personally curated for them by a human
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i do sort of love news organisations complaining about their employees talking to the press. babe you live by the leak you die by the leak!
Tidbit: In remarks that instantly leaked, Vice C.E.O. Bruce Dixon warned staff that "we will not tolerate constant external leaks to the press moments after we communicate."
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[press gazette editors don't read this]
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happy friday!
@The_Fence_Mag
asked me to go find a tree
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@metzgov
i've always assumed he's there cus it looks good for him to support what is basically the only big french social media company, but unsurprisingly it's usually... more stage managed than this one
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BREAKING
BREAKING: Zara and Mike Tindall engage in heavy PDA on final day of Cheltenham Festival
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back from leave and also my birthday. please enjoy these highlights from the wedding ceremony i threw to marry my thirties
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reporting in from the guardian's 2023 advertiser upfront event, where the country's leading liberal newsbrand is not beating stereotypes
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both the editors directly above me are off this morning! who should i libel from the press gazette twitter account
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when the hair is up, you're in luck
when the hair is down, time to frown
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@The_Fence_Mag
busabout lads tour round south spain/portugal post A-levels. all but 1 of the 5 of us violently vomited at end of night out in lagos and i slept by toilet using a doily for blanket. bus departed at 6am taking us to the tio pepe sherry winery and the most miserable tour of my life
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good morning from
@TinaBrownLM
's
#sirharrysummit
, a day which promises to be journalism woodstock
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colleagues fear he booked his first day of annual leave to coincide with barbenheimer day
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sadiq look like he's being held hostage
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journalists! what tricks or adaptations have you been using to try and deal with the new headline-less twitter?
i'm putting an article together today which will hopefully feature useful ideas for newsrooms coping with the changes - all responses welcomed!
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please endorse me on linkedin for multimedia journalism (i pressed a big record button twice)
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national world journalists are on strike!
it's the result of the first company-wide ballot on pay at the business in either its current incarnation as NW or previously as johnston press/jpi media. read more about the strike here:
#NationalWorldStrike
Support the
#NUJ
strike in support of fair pay in local journalism. Solidarity with journalists in Derry
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omg not me being in the lower half, why are there so many 6 footers
THE RESULTS ARE IN ! Here, in Issue 18 of
@The_Fence_Mag
, are the heights of London’s journo men, for no reason at all except: funny.
Subscribe for full list. Complaints and corrections to rl
@the
-fence.com
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spotted in the wild: new politico london ad push
i wrote about politico's london expansion the other month -
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if you believe this is an indication of approving sentiment i am afraid to say you are suffering a derangement
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I'm in the pilot seat for
@pressgazette
's US newsletter for the next few months while
@wturvill
is off communing with nature. US journos and media comms folk - please get in touch!
My first outing (on Google's new line on paying news publishers) is here:
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There are no media-specific policies in the Labour Party’s manifesto published today.
Previous Labour manifestos for recent elections have pledged to revive part two of the Leveson inquiry, but this time there is no mention of this, either for or against:
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Kudos to the ice coffee-swilling bleach-blond twink on Hatton Garden who just peered into a jeweller's window, sighed, and exclaimed to no one in particular: "£26,000! For a ring! If only my boyfriend were that generous, then I could have it all..."
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a thrilling sneak peek inside the press gazette CMS this morning
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the 'cis is a slur' thing is so funny. like, m8, i've had a car full of blokes drive slowly past hurling the word faggot at me out the window, can't say i have yet gotten drive-by abuse for being cis from a mini coupe full of trans people
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i hope you all enjoy the snapchat ghost with newspaper emoji i made using instagram. endorse me on linkedin for multimedia journalism
Platform profile: Press Gazette spoke with Snapchat's UK head of partnerships about how publishers can reach the 70 million people using the app for news
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"Just a day after senior management boasted in a newsroom-wide meeting about going to cocktail parties in Davos... the company decided to surprise the newsroom with a 15-minute warning that 8% of employees would be laid off" 😶
New: Business Insider to cut 8% of staff worldwide
One employee told us that "hard-working employees who have fulfilled the thankless task of getting high traffic numbers were told with no forewarning that they’re at risk of losing their jobs"
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press gazette've used up 97% of our 20 hour monthly otter allowance in 11 days 😵💫
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how's everyone's day going, i just declared famed journalist clare hollingworth dead via the press gazette account - accurately! but also seven years late
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Australia-style legislation for funding news is "just a way to force two different groups of rapacious monopolists to divide up their ill-gotten gains in a slightly different way", says
@doctorow
.
Challenging read for folks pinning their hopes for funding news on such laws!
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personal highlight from this year's NCTJ diversity in journalism report: according to the census bisexuals are four times better represented in the news industry than in society at large
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have to schedule all the press gazette tweets via twitter now tweetdeck is paid
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out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of truth tellers, they're all just out of frame, laughing too
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can we afford trans people some dignity and respect, please
BBC upholds complaint against Today presenter Justin Webb for using the phrase “trans women, in other words males” on air
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Suspect that, of all the things that have happened on the Press Gazette beat in the six months since I joined, the death of CBBC and BBC Four as broadcast channels is the thing that will have the most cut-through with the general public
BBC to cut programming, close CBBC and BBC Four channels and shift to become a "digital-first" in an effort to make £500m of savings.
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ofcom announces GB News tellings-off like ESPN announces a penalty decision
We've found five GB News programmes featuring politicians acting as news presenters in breach of due impartiality rules.
🔗 Read our full statement here:
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for future reference: referring to a trans person by pronouns they do not use, as r*wling did rather insistently the other week, is *definitionally* transphobic
Scoop: read the nine-page briefing note sent to BBC journalists about reporting on sex and gender.
Document says presenters must challenge guests who accuse others of transphobia. It follows the BBC apologising to JK Rowling twice for failing to do this.
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about to live in my sixth london borough in as many years...... perhaps, one day, the winds of the rental market will bring my odyssey back to hounslow
(but hopefully not)
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got to hand it to evgeny lebedev there's simply no newspaper proprietors out there doing it like him
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saw a hate crime this eve. two guys walked past an orthodox guy off hatton garden, one goes 'free palestine, fuck zionist pigs'. they just keep walking on. i go toward the guy to check he's okay, see he's unbelievably unphased, realise he has his airpods in and has no idea
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A seemingly totally unrelated caravan of several hundred mostly boys on bikes has slammed into the
#londonprotest
(???????)
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sorry to all the papers whose print deadlines came before the big news
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here's a weird one:
- high-profile celeb gets an injunction to stop the BBC publishing allegations of sexual misconduct in case it prejudices a trial
- celeb realises the BBC's now-sealed statement fighting the injunction contains information that may help him avoid being charged
A high-profile man who is the subject of an injuncted BBC investigation has lost a bid to have a statement contesting the injunction turned over to police.
The police have not yet decided whether to charge celebrity "WFZ" over alleged sexual misconduct:
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@alexhern
I'm usually fine with Google Maps, but when I try to use it to go from my mum's house - which is *next to* a train station - to anywhere else, it tells me to walk 2 minutes down the road, catch a bus, and take it one stop back to the station.
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i see someone in the new statesman office has got a hot date tonight
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@MediaEvan
a poorly evidenced belief i've long had is that relative to the general public a high proportion of digital/print journalists prefer getting info via text, which is part of why the news business is also perpetually behind in adapting to audiovisual platforms like youtube/tiktok
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described by one esteemed guardian journalist as 'really looking like a press gazette reporter', which is hopefully a good thing
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i hear there's a lot of these in the vatican
babe whats wrong you havent even touched your frogcaccia
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me: you'd better not be weimar era drag king jess phillips when i get there
jess phillips:
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i count ~17 hours of GBN watch time that went into this article across a month - what a feat!
incidentally, if you want to read the result of my 18 hours watching the channel last year, you can do so here 😌
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the 'lisa nandy having the most fun of her life at dcms' rumours remain undefeated
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gonna have to start putting headlines in pics i guess. i am going to get so good at MS paint again
Elon Musk's Twitter/X is planning to change how links display, removing the headline and other text and just having the image. After the plan was revealed by Fortune, Musk said: "This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics."
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remember NO media moguls have retired until press gazette has reported it 😤
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thrilled to say that where previously there were no uses of the word 'betches' in the press gazette archive now there are 15
Ladbible Group owner LBG Media has acquired the US-based women’s media brand Betches for an initial cash consideration of $24m.
That price may rise as high as $54m if the company hits certain profitability targets by 2026
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@concertina226
wasn't saying either is the standard figure in the respective country. just contextualising that US pay figures are not nearly as eye-popping as they appear. many us journalists make less than 70k!
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