Harpers Bazaar job cuts and more...

Harpers Bazaar job cuts
Five jobs have been lost at the ACP-owned magazine, including editor Jamie Huckbody, in the latest round of job cuts at the embattled publisher. The remaining 11 Harpers staff will be located with Grazia staff, and it is understood three roles will be shared between the titles. The Alliance has written to management seeking clarification about the sharing of staff between competing mastheads.

YouTube Reporters’ Centre
YouTube opened an online journalism training hub on Monday featuring tips from top names, including Bob Woodward of Watergate fame, on how to be a good reporter. See http://www.youtube.com/reporterscenter

Gossip site scoop
How did controversial gossip website TMZ.com beat TV networks and traditional media to the “scoop of the decade” and become the first news organisation in the world to report the death of Michael Jackson? asks Stephen Brook in Media Guardian.

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

2009 Travel Photography Scholarship to Antarctica

We have just launched the much anticipated 2009 Travel Photography Scholarship - offering you the opportunity to travel to Antarctica with an on-assignment National Geographic photographer!

You'll have your best photos published on the National Geographic Channel website, plus we'll throw in AU$2000 worth of Pentax photographic equipment of your choice.

We can barely believe it ourselves!

Check out our website for full details: http://journals.worldnomads.com/scholarships/post/32554.aspx

Applications close October 4, 2009.

Good luck!

Amanda Byrne
Global Programs Manager

Job opportunity with Oxfam Australia

Oxfam Australia Campaigns Coordinator – Queensland

https://www.oxfam.org.au

Use your skills to raise awareness and build and demonstrate community support and activism around campaign issues, development, human rights and social justice!

We need your group development and facilitation skills to plan, implement and evaluate our popular campaigning work at the state level and play an active role in our national popular campaigning plans.

Your experience in holding successful events and knowledge of a range of advocacy and community campaigning tools and techniques will make you the ideal candidate.

Contract to November 2009 whilst the incumbent is on long service leave.

Applications close 13 July.

For a copy of the position description and application form please see: https://www.oxfam.org.au/jobs

MTV Positive Change Award

Internews and MTV announce the launch of the MTV Positive Change Award on creative multimedia coverage of climate change.

Any young person between the ages of 18 and 28, who is passionate about climate change, is invited to apply to a special category of the Earth Journalism Awards specifically designed by MTV and Internews for young creatives.

The winner of the MTV Positive Change Award will be honoured at a high-profile awards ceremony at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December and will be supported by a production team from Internews to cover the pivotal negotiations for youth audiences around the world.

"Transforming our lifestyles in order to reduce the threat of climate change requires a combination of vision, commitment and innovation'' says Paul Smith, Regional Creative Director, Europe, Africa & Middle East, Ogilvy and Mather. "The MTV Positive Change Award is an opportunity for youth around the world to display these qualities through a creative competition that Ogilvy and the advertising community will be following closely."

Since the announcement of the Earth Journalism Awards at the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting in Italy on Earth Day, April 22nd, journalists and bloggers from over 115 countries have signed up for the opportunity to be at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen. The MTV Positive Change Award gives one highly creative young adult a chance to have their work showcased on the eve of the final negotiations.

"This new award offers an opportunity to young creatives whether they are based in Sao Paulo, New York, Shanghai or Tehran to engage in communication on an issue of crucial importance to their generation," says Agathe Dalisson, the Director of the Earth Journalism Awards, "for they will all inherit the decisions made at Copenhagen. Internews applauds companies like MTV which are investing in creative initiatives like this to help their consumers understand and respond to the challenge of climate change."

For more information on the award:
http://awards.earthjournalism.org/content/mtv-positive-change-award

Earth Journalism Awards -- Honouring the world's best climate change reporting
Entries close 7 September 2009
See the above link for more information and terms and conditions!

Infostrada Sports internship opportunity...

Infostrada Sports is inviting applications of interest from your Communications, Journalism and Media students to become involved with our World Masters Games Event News Service team, through participating in our Biography Research Project internship.

A number of outstanding interns from the Biography Research Project will make the Event News Service Team, with the shortlist to be announced in the lead up to the 2009 World Masters Games.

The Event News Service is a Games-time operation aimed at assisting accredited media in covering the Games by providing a balanced, unbiased information service that includes news reports, press conference highlights and flash quotes.

Event News Service reporters will get to sharpen their basic reporting skills, learn to write breaking news, practice finding story angles under deadline pressure and get hands-on experience at interviewing athletes.

We are looking for interns who will receive training, and then during Gamestime will receive daily briefings and full support as they gather news items.

For the Games-time roles, all interns will need to have their own laptop and Infostrada Sports will provide expenses for those who can use their own car. All communication costs and meals will be provided. Unfortunately, no travel to Sydney or accommodation costs can be met due to the tight budgetary constraints of the project.

To find out how you can get involved with the Biography Research project, please submit a current resume in addition to a cover letter to Internship Coordinator, Hairul Sukaime at hairul.sukaime@infostradasports.com

North Korean sentence

The International Federation of Journalists has called for the immediate release of two American journalists who were sentenced to 12 years hard labour by a North Korean court this week, for allegedly crossing the Chinese-North Korean border. Euna Lee and Laura Ling’s four day trial was held in secret and there is no avenue for appeal.

See http://tinyurl.com/lso2sr.

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

Twitter revolution and more...

Twitter revolution
Iranian protesters have been able to bypass a strict media blackout and provide the world with first person accounts of what is happening in the aftermath of the country’s disputed presidential election, thanks to microblogging site Twitter.

See http://tinyurl.com/nm9c44

World of risk
Start-up news organisations are increasingly sending journalists to the world’s hot spots in a bid to tell new stories in new ways, but one of the risks is “that reporters lack the backing of large established news organisations.” writes Brian Stelter in the New York Times.

Full story: http://tinyurl.com/lr4s5t

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

How are journalists using Twitter in Australia?

MediaShift’s Julie Posetti spoke to 25 of the journalists she follows to find out firsthand.

See: http://tinyurl.com/q8ljes

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

Watergate

It’s an admission the Guardian describes as “among the most excruciating in newspaper history”. Two former New York Times journalists have revealed that they knew of the Watergate scandal before their Washington Post rivals but dropped the ball and missed the scoop of the century.

Read more: http://tinyurl.com/p99j24

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

Film Festival

Hi all,
Refugee film festival later this month. Interesting and important stories to be told and heard. Flyer below.

IML Opportunity

Hello

We had someone organised to do this filming next Tuesday, but they are now unable to do it.

These are the details.

We are seeking a student filmmaker for the following:

Hourly rate: $25 per hour

Equipment: preferably supply camera and have access to an editing suite

Products:

1. 3-4 min Journalistic, news style, factual video report to post on IML website www.iml.uq.edu.au
2. 90sec-2min promo on UTube - fresh, innovative, punchy aimed at 20-30 yr olds
3. Finished product with sound in Quicktime & mini DV

Thu 28 May or Mon 1 June – 1-2 hrs meet with IML rep Laurent Auclair (who works as script editor for French TV network & whose partner is a film producer in Australia & France) & will act as mentor for the project

Tue 2 June - 4 hrs preparing, filming & interviewing participants at IML’s 75th anniversary celebration, UQ Art Museum lawn, University Drive, St Lucia campus 4-8pm

Editing (assignment due dates & exam dates will certainly be taken into consideration)

8 hrs for video report

4 hrs for UTube video

Thanks

Georgiana Poulter
Director, IML (Institute of Modern Languages)
Faculty of Arts
The University of Qld

Ph 07 3346 8201
Mob 0434 364 843
Email g.poulter@uq.edu.au
Web www.iml.uq.edu.au

Walkley Foundation Event

The Walkley Foundation is pleased to invite you to join them for drinks, canapés and lively discussion…

FREE EVENT

Feeling the Squeeze: Press Freedom issues from the Pacific to our own backyard

Moderated by Cathy Border, Political Editor, Network Ten
With
· Sean Dorney, Pacific correspondent, ABC/Australia Network
· Peter McCutcheon, 7:30 Report, ABC
· Sean Parnell, FoI Editor and Queensland political reporter, The Australian

Including Q&A session

Thursday May 28 2009
6:30pm
The Regatta Hotel

Please see invite below for RSVP details. Register now to avoid disappointment.

News, schmews

“No one cares about the sanctity of the news. We need to make the case on grounds that actually matter to people,” writes Beth Teitell in the Boston Globe. Her list of 11 reasons why newspapers are better than the internet attracted some scathing comments.

http://tinyurl.com/q9e9lp

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

Oaktree Foundation jobs

Youth aid and development organisation, The Oaktree Foundation are recruitmenting! Positions available include PR/Media Coordinator, knowledge management, event coordination. See flyer below for more information.

Public Affairs Convention

Can’t make it to the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance’s annual Public Affairs Convention in Sydney next week?

You can catch all the action at their live blog, from 9am Monday: https://publicaffairs.alliance.org.au

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

MyVision TV

Dear students,

My name is Sarah Hickey and I manage the Music & Content for a project called MyVision TV, which has just launched in early April 2009. We are looking for film enthusiasts to contribute to the project, which I will explain briefly below:

MyVision Productions are a film/TV company based on the Gold Coast which specialise in Music Clips and promos. The sister company, MyVision TV, utilises this company’s film skills and resources to film short, documentary-styled episodes on bands/artists when on Australian soil; established and emerging. Over the summer, MyVision TV went along to Good Vibrations and The Laneway Festival, and interviewed artists such as Girl Talk, Cut Off Your Hands, The Drones, The John Steel Singers, Yves Klein Blue, Decoder Ring, Katalyst, Urthboy, Calvin Harris, The Rapture, Tegan & Sara, Wale, The Pharcyde, Q-Tip, TZU, An Horse, I Heart Hiroshima and Holly Throsby and many more coming soon. These documentaries will all be posted on our online music channel, www.myvisiontv.com.au.

On this site, there is a lot of written content to support the video content. This is where we are looking for strong writers and avid music listeners to contribute. Don’t be disillusioned, all contributors have the chance to get along to gigs or to interview bands, if they demonstrate an enthusiasm for the project. Areas that need contribution include:

è Feature Articles
è Gig Reviews (free gigs)
è CD Reviews (Pre-release albums often supplied)
è Artist Profiles (emerging or established)

Attached is a contributors guide with all the information you need to know, if you wish to get in contact with us at MyVision TV. If, after reading all of the available information, the project sounds like something you are interested in, email me at sarah.hickey@myvisiontv.com.au.

Thanks,

Sarah Hickey
(e) sarah.hickey@myvisiontv.com.au
(m) 0402-661-059
www.myvisiontv.com.au

WANNA WORK IN JOURNALISM?

You can’t afford to miss the Brisbane MediaPass Student Industry Day

Hear from the employers who are hiring cadets.

Final year journalism students:
Register now for the annual MediaPass Student Industry Day. It’s on Thursday May 28 and registration is as simple as emailing students@alliance.org.au with your course details (university, degree, year of graduation) by 5pm May 26.

The day is designed to help you make the transition between study and working in the media industry. Students hoping to find work in journalism cannot afford to miss this day – the people responsible for hiring cadets for ABC, Network Ten, The Courier-Mail and more will be there as speakers. Also speaking will be young working journalists and freelancers, including charismatic freelancer Benjamin Law, and blogger du jour Erica Bartle (http://GirlWithASatchel.com). The program is attached.

As ever, the day is FREE to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. The day will be held at Metro Arts, in Edward St in the city, from 9.30 – 3.30.

REGISTER NOW: email students@alliance.org.au with “Brisbane Students Day RSVP” in the subject line

RSVPs close 5pm, May 26

Secrecy and Red Tape

The past 12 months has seen some progress on issues relating to press freedom but a cloak of secrecy continues to envelope the activities of government and the courts, according to the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance’s annual press freedom review, launched last week.

Secrecy and Red Tape - The State of Press Freedom in Australia 2009 is available for download at: https://www.alliance.org.au

Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

AMUNC International Press Gallery applications now open!

Want to write about international politics, global issues and other topics of importance?

The Asia-Pacific Model United Nations Conference 2009 is now recruiting members of the first International Press Gallery (IPG) to take place in an AMUNC.

Between July 12 and 17, engaged young people from around the region will converge on the University of Queensland, Brisbane to discuss international politics and global issues as delegates to AMUNC 2009.

A team of 40 reporters, print and online editors, photographers and graphic designers will be responsible for two releases of The Working Paper (TWP), a 32-page news magazine covering and commentating on AMUNC committee topics, debates and extra-curricular activities. News generated from the conference will also be fed through a live AMUNC news website and Twitter account.

To become a member of the IPG, complete the standard AMUNC online application available from http://www.amunc.net/, as well as submitting 250 words explaining your preferred committee and publication of choice and a story or article you have written.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact IPG Director Brooke Wylie via e-mail at pressgallery@amunc.net.

Brisbane City Property Guide

Hi JACS

Thanks for your time.

As mentioned I am searching for a student journalist to do property editorials and celebrity interviews for my magazine.

The magazine has been going for 12 years. I have been looking after it for two years now. We had a major facelift on the magazine earlier this year to include the above mentioned.

The magazine comes out fortnightly, therefore all material would be required by the Wednesday of every second week. The student will be directed by myself and the art director.

Please see the attached link and have a look at pages 8 - 9 and 12 - 13...

www.bcpg.com.au

Look forward to hearing from you.

Regards

Dave Willems
Sales Manager BRISBANE CITY PROPERTY GUIDE
ph: 0411 72 68 68 e: dave@bcpg.com.au
w: www.bcpg.com.au