Contents June – 2009

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Welcome

All the talk at media conferences nowadays is about charging more for our journalism online. But hang on a minute Carolyn McCall, Tim Weller and Rupert Murdoch – haven’t we been here before, more than once? In our cover feature, Peter Kirwan gets behind the rhetoric to look at the case for rebuilding internet paywalls and crunches the numbers on taking Times Online subscription-only (pages 5-7).

If you couldn’t afford the £1,500 a ticket for the World Magazine Congress in London last month, don’t worry. Press Gazette was there and we’ve distilled all the best ideas and insight from the event into our report, on pages 18 and 19. While the search goes on for a way to make online news pay, old-fashioned print on paper broadsheet journalism received a huge shot in the arm this month with a scoop that was landed the old fashioned way, by paying for it. The Daily Telegraph’s back-to-back revelations over MPs’ expenses dominated the news agenda for pretty much the whole of May, with the paper making use of every squareinch of its big, broadsheet pages to bring readers copious detail from its expenses dossier.

For parliamentary reporting veteran David Rose, writing on pages 10 and 11, it is the biggest political scoop of the modern era. He reflects on the story’s place in the history books, and explains why Lobby journalists have little pity for the highest profile casualty of the affair, Speaker Michael Martin. For David Banks (page 28), the Telegraph’s revelations signal a return to “real news” and a move away from Fleet Street’s obsession with celebrity tittle-tattle. Dominic Ponsford, editor

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NEWS & ANALYSIS. CHARGING FOR ONLINE Three-page special report by Peter Kirwan 05-08 MPS’ EXPENSES David Rose on possibly the best political scoop ever 10-11 MAGAZINES Karen Pasquali Jones’s 10 great ways to improve your mag 12-13 EVENING STANDARD Behind the scenes at the Standard under Lebedev 15-16 MAGAZINES CONGRESS Ideas and insight from the FIPP World Magazine Congress 18-19 REGIONAL PRESS AWARDS All the winners 20-21 NEWSROOM INNOVATION A Global Report special 23-24 SOURCES FIGHT Suzanne Breen battles on 26

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COMMENT. GREY CARDIGAN 27 DAVID BANKS On the press 28 DAVID SINGLETON On PR and power 28 CAMILLA WRIGHT On digital media 29 PETER KIRWAN On Media Money 31 FEATURES. ANDY BURNHAM The Culture Secretary explains why he is determined to save the regional press 35-37 DESIGN David Hillman picks out the high points of his career 40-41 PHOTOGRAPHY The Regional Press Awards photography winners 42-43

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TIPS & TRAINING. FREELANCE Using your sales skills; from redundancy to freelance; reporting from Germany 44-45 THE KNOWLEDGE Three pages of essential know-how: Deborah Haynes and Camilla Cavendish from The Times; attributing sources; budgets 48-50 REGULARS. EARLY ADOPTER FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw 33 GADGETS The latest voice recorders 39 BOOKS The Quest for Radovan Karadzic, by Nick Hawton 52 EXIT INTERVIEW Bexhill Observer’s John Dowling 59 AXEGRINDER The column that settles scores and buries hatchets 62-63

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FREELANCE DIRECTORY 46-47 TRAINING 51 NEWS CONTACTS 54-55 ESSENTIAL SERVICES 56-57

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PRESS GAZETTE — JOURNALISM TODAY / JUNE 2009