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Ten journalists from the UK’s Guardian newspaper compiled tomorrow’s edition of the G2 supplement from the beach yesterday – taking full advantage of Brighton’s new free Wi-fi service. Acting deputy features editor Charlie English came up with the idea to commission, write and edit the whole section on the beach after reading a BBC News… Continue reading Journalists working on the beach

Women are still one-third of all full-time journalists working for the traditional mainstream media, as they have been since 1982, even though more women than ever are graduating from journalism school and entering the profession. Among journalists with fewer than five years of work experience, women are 54.2 percent, outnumbering men for the first time.… Continue reading Women Journalists Aren’t Increasing Overall

Seeking to mend the damage to the credibility and staff morale of The New York Times after a reporter’s extensive fabrications, Bill Keller the newspaper’s new executive editor accepted the major recommendations of an internal committee. Acting on his first day as executive editor Mr Keller wrote in a memorandum to the staff that he… Continue reading NY Times to name ombudsman

Jayson Blair, the reporter whose invented sources and bogus datelines plunged the New York Times into crisis this year, is back at work. He has been hired by Esquire magazine in New York to write about another journalist who invented his material. Mr Blair, 27, is to review the film, Shattered Glass, the story of… Continue reading Jayson Blair finds new job