A new service which will help thousands of community groups boost their contact with the media and provide journalists with a new source of stories is set to be launched tomorrow. The new Community Newswire is a joint initiative between
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Blunkett launches community news wire
The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, has launched the new Community Newswire initiative to expand media exposure for community and voluntary groups. The Home Office-funded project will boost the groups’ contact with the media and provide journalists with a new source
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A state-of-the-art laptop computer and insider knowledge from a leading London literary agent are some of the prizes on offer to the winner of The bloc-online Writing Prize 2004 – a new kind of writing competition launched by Falmouth College
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A state-of-the-art laptop computer and insider knowledge from a leading London literary agent are some of the prizes on offer to the winner of The bloc-online Writing Prize 2004 – a new kind of writing competition launched by Falmouth College
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The Press Complaints Commission can today announce that it received 1,018 complaints between January and March 2004, in line with the figures for 2003, when a record number was received over the course of the year. Of those complaints that
Players give paper the red card over team injuries article
A news story highlighting the concerns of an Aberdeen football fan saw the Press and Journal banned from a pre-match press conference. Aberdeen FC players refused to speak to reporters at the Aberdeen-based newspaper after it reported comments from a
Press Association to expand its offering
The Press Association is launching an initiative to expand its services to the news media in Ireland. A new bureau is to be opened in Dublin in addition to the agency’s Belfast office, with extra journalists being recruited to strengthen
Community news to get a boost under new project
A new project to boost the number of community and voluntary sector stories in the regional press is being set up. The Media Trust – an organisation that helps charities to communicate – has secured Home Office Funding for a
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The National Union of Journalists wants to get the regulations on reporting restrictions for covering employment tribunals changed.There can be problems for media coverage if a case is settled before it gets to a hearing, and reporting restrictions can remain
Journalist is awarded £5,000 in unfair dismissal case
The Press and Journal in Aberdeen is considering an appeal after a former business reporter was awarded £5,320 for unfair constructive dismissal by an employment tribunal. Bob King joined the paper as a general reporter in June 1997 and later
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The Press Complaints Commission has published its response to the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport’s report into privacy and media intrusion.Some of the committee’s 23 proposals on reform echo moves already under way by the press watchdog to
PCC pointers for journalism trainees
The Press Complaints Commission has launched a new online section to help journalism students studying its work and the editors’ Code of Practice. The Commission’s website now includes a special section which gives detailed answers to some of the questions
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Journalists are being discouraged from using misleading terminology with regard to asylum seekers.The Press Complaints Commission says the use of language – particularly phrases like “illegal asylum seeker”, of which there is no such thing in law – had led
Prince of Wales opens new PA base
The Press Association’s new Howden headquarters have been officially opened by Prince Charles. During his visit to East Yorkshire the Prince chatted with some of the 500 PA staff based at the centre as he toured the the new £5m
PA appoints head of features
Former Daily Record journalist Mandy Appleyard is to join the Press Association as head of features. In the newly-created role Mandy will be responsible for developing feature content across all the editorial marketsserved by PA, including national and regional newspapers,
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Representatives from the Press Complaints Commission were among delegates and observers from 16 countries who attended the fifth annual gathering of the Alliance of Independent Press Councils hosted by the Swedish Press Ombudsman in Stockholm. The Alliance was established in