Category Archives: Society of Editors

@Society of Editors – Simon Bucks: Grow membership in broadcast and online

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The new president of the Society of Editors, Sky News associate editor for online, Simon Bucks, has delivered his inaugural address, the last event of the conference. Bucks, who earlier this year publically recanted his skepticism about the value of interactive journalism, says online has “most of the fun of television, although you don’t have to [...]

@Society of Editors – Football economics coming to online journalism salaries?

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The final session of the conference is “The Future is ours: 2020 Vision”, which is billed as “ifting the covers on editors’ crystal balls”. Appropriately, the panel will be chaired by Martin Stanford, presenter of Sky.com News, the rolling news channel’s interactive programme which covers the most popular stories and debates on the web. He reveals [...]

@Society of Editors: Information Commissioner: Private broadcasters could come under FOI

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The Information Commissioner has acknowledged that his budget for enforcing the Freedom of Information Act “drop in the ocean”, and suggested that and suggested that private broadcasting companies might be considered for inclusion in the list of bodies that must respond to FOI requests. “I am really really struggling at the moment,” Thomas said. He described [...]

@Society of Editors – Which? web site’s 170K paying subscribers

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Which? editor Neil Fowler talks about the extraordinary trust that the not-for profit consumer advice magazine enjoys among its readers, who will make major buying decisions like washing machines by explicitly trusting its research to determine the best one. Fowler says the Which? web site has 170,000 paying subscribers to add to the 517,000 print subscribers. People [...]

@Society of Editors – Does Gavin O’Reilly ‘get it’?

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Media commentators and “teenage scribblers in the investment banks” are failing to correctly analyse the newspaper industry and are failing to move beyond a simplistic analysis that describes changes in media consumption as “a gladiatorial spat between print and online”, Independent News & Media chief operating officer Gavin O’Reilly argued in a forceful opening address [...]

@Society of Editors – Trust: the Big Issue

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Alistair Stewart of ITN is charing the fist session of the conference, which also features Sky News’ Adam Boulton, Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty, Advertising Association chief executive Baroness Peta Buscombe. The judge on the panel, Sir Igor Judge, president of the Queen’s Bench Division, is said to be arriving shortly. Chakrabarti: There is no crisis of trust [...]