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At least one Scottish newspaper is still hiring but you would never guess which one…
Check this out. The Digger, a little-known paper outside the Scottish West Coast (here’s the wiki). It covers courts, reveals a lot of crime stories – and more often than not, it’s a damn good read. Never dull. And now it’s hiring and it’s not a bad salary – up to £26,000, which is a
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Star Trek as you’ve never seen it before
Had to laugh at these Star Trek book covers with new titles. Probably better than most of the originals. (and it’s never too early to start getting the Star Trek references in for the new film)
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The Redundant Journalist Guide to PR – back soon!
Anyone looking for The Redundant Journalist Guide to PR shouldn’t worry – I’ve brought it down after a few people emailed me some excellent suggestions for imprvoving the guide, so it’s away for the moment – but will be back soon!
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Reporters v PR row hits Twitter and #journchat
The incredibly popular journalism/PR/other meedja types #journchat has had a suggestion put forward to it by a moderator-wannabe. Journalism student Ethan Klapper is proposing that #journchat kicks out the PR types and becomes reporter only. Now, it’s a sweet idea, but there’s a few flaws in it: he misses the point that #journchat was set
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How iPods – and the users – change vol.1
I’ve just had to turf recorded songs off my iPod to make way for podcasts and downloadable, fresh, content. It’s strange to be realising that I’m throwing out the familiar (and normally more than welcome) for a bunch of stuff which – despite the fact it should be good as I picked it – is
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Why Twitter matters in PR and marketing – and we all get to be like Superman
Twitter’s a quicker way of doing it Supes The Register has a piece about why Twitter is fairly useless – and I’m a fan of El Reg but also a fan of the tweet – so who’s right? Actually both. Twitter has many flaws – you won’t learn information unless hooked up to the right