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SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER

Turns out political correctness has not gone quite as mad as first thought.

Last week we printed the Union Flag incorrectly in a tea towel promotion. The thick white lines of the St Andrew’s Cross should have been above the red St Patrick’s Cross on one side of the flag and below it on the other.The kind of mistake we can all agree the corrections and clarifications column was designed for. No excuses, Mail on Sunday. Letting yourselves and the readers down...

The spirit of Benji lives on.

Friday 21 October

Dave plans to buy Angela a new engagement ring. By coincidence, they both have the same surname.Not so, says our reader, who was actually at the press conference - no such fact was uttered. And it transpires there's actually a different explanation. The Guardian reports:The couple have been together for four years but they hadn't married because they couldn't afford it, she said, although she has changed her name to his.The reference has been removed from the revamped MailOnline story now, and of course in the wider scheme of things, it's not the world's biggest blunder. But somewhere in the process from press conference to article, whether it was written into the copy by the reporter or added by an editor, the wrinkle was ironed out the wrong way. An assumption became fact. Never assume.

But yesterday also saw the Telegraph open up its newsroom in a very different way.

Erm... 

This is how we work.

Friday 14 October

Did he see the Observer profile suggesting he was going downhill? "Yes, you turn the page and think, 'Oh God'." He says he didn't read it closely, but closely enough to notice it said he was at school at Charterhouse – a factoid added to his Wikipedia entry by an over-enthusiastic Old Carthusian. "It is slightly depressing that people recite this as fact," he says. "I have never set foot in the place."Ouch. We've said it before and we'll say it again, although it's hard to believe we have to: Wikipedia is not a source.

Tuesday 18 October

Mr Jefferies' rehabilitation is complete.

Wednesday 12 October

It appears journalists across the UK are facing an epidemic of intrusive inanity.

There could even be some kind of prize-giving ceremony...

The ceremonies take place in fancy dress.

'The issue of the construction of a small stage area in advertising was raised. TP reported that the publisher was very keen for this to happen and that it will go ahead. On the specific issue of activity on the stage clashing with sensitive phone calls; these must be planned when making such outgoing calls so that they are not made when the stage is in use. The stage is not in constant use and will involve attendance by editorial staff on certain occasions. (Last month’s Brilliance winner was Dan Martin from editorial, for instance). If such a phone call was received the recipient should explain what is going on and offer to call them back.'If anyone at the Mercury is reading, our email is fleetstreetblues@hotmail.co.uk. Let us know how that's working out for you.

Even by normal celeb story standards, that's pretty thin.

Mr Murdoch will be pleased.

The actual, geographical Fleet Street.

For the first time in my long 40-year-old career I have started to work off Fleet Street in New Fetter lane and my local is El Vino's, where old hacks never die.Fleet Street, today more regarded as a heritage tourist stop where people reminisce about print and hot metal, will now become the venue for a new cyberspace revolution - the rebirth of detailed investigative journalism on the web. David will be working for Exaronews, a City-funded, subscription-based investigative news website. It's run by Mark Watts, formerly chief investigative reporter on Sunday Business and, appropriately enough, author of The Fleet Street Sewer Rat, and according to its website, they have an editorial team 24-strong 'and growing'. Nice to see journalists back where they belong.

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After much fanfare last week, today sees the first publication of a 'corrections and clarifications' column in the Mail on Sunday

Turns out political correctness has not gone quite as mad as first thought.

Bath licensee Ashley Van Dyck points out that he did not support police use of an airport-style scanner to check people on a night out for knives and drugs. Our article of September 25 repeated a quote to the BBC by Mr Van Dyck, chairman of Bath Pubwatch, saying only that he welcomed extra police officers being deployed to curb anti-social behaviour.

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Last week we printed the Union Flag incorrectly in a tea towel promotion. The thick white lines of the St Andrew’s Cross should have been above the red St Patrick’s Cross on one side of the flag and below it on the other.

Mail on Sunday

Letting yourselves and the readers down...

In the wake of phone-hacking, the Leveson inquiry and the Guardian

Daily Mirror

David Cameron's right-hand man Oliver Letwin has been caught dumping secret papers in park waste bins.

The PM's blundering policy adviser was seen on five separate days throwing away sensitive correspondence on terrorism, national security and constituents' private details.

The Cabinet Office minister disposed of more than 100 papers in the security breach in a park near No 10.

The spirit of Benji lives on.

If you're after a news editor position on 'one of the toughest newsdesks in the regional press', this vacancy at the Oxford Mail

Oxford Mail

Oxford Times

Guardian

Indy suggests Fox should resign. However, as he hasn't had formal training as a minister, they'll presumably settle for a four-month course.

Telegraph

Sydney Morning Herald

Dave plans to buy Angela a new engagement ring. By coincidence, they both have the same surname.

The Guardian

The couple have been together for four years but they hadn't married because they couldn't afford it, she said, although she has changed her name to his.

Never assume.

Guardia

But yesterday also saw the Telegraph open up its newsroom in a very different way.

Daily Telegraph

Erm... 

This is how we work.

Observer

You know that Dr Johnson remark: 'Every man thinks less of himself for not having been a soldier.' You could say that every man thinks less of himself for having become a journalist. My father always used to say: 'Why don't you get a proper job?'

The Independent

After leaving university I spent some time working on the editorial side of [the publishing group]'s rickety hyperlocal platform. Though the sites were ostensibly community news hubs, any serious reporting of local events was way down on the list of priorities. It was all about the business directory lurking in the background, which explains why sales outnumbered editorial ten to one.

From where I sat I was fully exposed to their God-awful banter and sales patter. Any rare moments of quiet would soon be punctured with a bellow of 'I'm not hearing enough noise, sales!' from the sales manager, which would bring on a renewed flurry of cold-calling. That said, I wasn't without sympathy for their plight. Life in the sales team, as with the gladiatorial arena, was brutal and short.

Each month a new batch of fresh meat would arrive for induction. After two days of being schooled in the dark arts while munching on M&S party platters, they'd be let loose upon the phones, only to be out of the door in a matter of weeks when they failed to convince enough recession-hit small business owners to part with their cash. Most of them barely had time to claim their basic, let alone their bonus.

God, I remember a bell ringing when targets were met on the Oxford Journal group back in 1986 - moved on since then and thankfully most newspapers in the Uk still have a clearly defining line between the two departments.

Sadly, since moving to Australia in 2003, have discovered there is no such line in regional press - where sales managers try to tell reporters what to write. One regional paper in NSW, where I was deputy editor, blocked all council reporting for fear it would knock their $500k advertising budget!

No real estate stories, no courts - 'it's too bleak an outlook on our community' said the GM. 'People want to read good news - not hear of crime.'

Then I was instructed by a new GM that no council stories were allowed unless 'checked' by him. The word 'censorship' came up in a heated debate. He is - was - a salesman, with no journalistic training. This idiot even then tried to instruct a reporter how to write a court story, once I had managed to get court reporting back on the newslist.

Regional newspapers in Australia are ad driven and the poor journo has to play second fiddle. Thankfully, I walked away and have since returned to metro papers - in Perth - where you don't see a sales rep on the news floor. They're not allowed without a prior invitation...

I've overheard quite a few corkers from the sales team, but my favourite is when one of them told a potential client that we had an 'internet-based website'.

Who'd interview Jeremy Paxman? There's no doubt it's a tough assignment, and it's one the Observer

Did he see the Observer profile suggesting he was going downhill? "Yes, you turn the page and think, 'Oh God'." He says he didn't read it closely, but closely enough to notice it said he was at school at Charterhouse – a factoid added to his Wikipedia entry by an over-enthusiastic Old Carthusian. "It is slightly depressing that people recite this as fact," he says. "I have never set foot in the place."

Wikipedia is not a source.

Which? Computing

Today Brian Cathcart, professor of journalism at Kingston University, interviews him for the FT

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“I remained oblivious of the extraordinary media interest even the day after I was released,” Jefferies recalls. He could not return to his flat so he stayed with friends who also hesitated to discuss the press coverage. It was only when he “blithely proposed”, as he puts it, to head off into Bristol to buy some clothes and washing things that matters came to a head. This prospect “so alarmed the solicitor that he rang to say that if my friends couldn’t persuade me not to do that, he would himself come down from London in order to persuade me that this was a very bad idea”.

He had spent Christmas with relatives in Derbyshire and had planned to visit an aunt in Cheshire for New Year. 'She was obviously one of the first people that I telephoned after I was released and she was … extremely relieved to hear me. She said she felt as if the experience of those three days had aged her a hundred years. Those were the words that she used.'

The Mirror blew up one picture to show that Jefferies had an A-Z of Bristol in his car, adding the caption: “Evidence … maps were on the back seat”.

Mr Jefferies' rehabilitation is complete.

Thanks to the NUJ in north London for flagging up this vacancy, which we're told hasn't been advertised widely. North London and Herts Newspapers, which produce among others the Enfield Advertiser and Gazette

So the story about the commercial team clowns on the Leicester Mercury

It appears journalists across the UK are facing an epidemic of intrusive inanity.

Dumfries and Galloway Standard

There could even be some kind of prize-giving ceremony...

Press Gazette

Leicester Mercury

The ceremonies take place in fancy dress.

'The issue of the construction of a small stage area in advertising was raised. TP reported that the publisher was very keen for this to happen and that it will go ahead. On the specific issue of activity on the stage clashing with sensitive phone calls; these must be planned when making such outgoing calls so that they are not made when the stage is in use. The stage is not in constant use and will involve attendance by editorial staff on certain occasions. (Last month’s Brilliance winner was Dan Martin from editorial, for instance). If such a phone call was received the recipient should explain what is going on and offer to call them back.'

Mercury

Let us know how that's working out for you.

Sun

looked a bit like him

Even by normal celeb story standards, that's pretty thin.

The Times

Mr Murdoch will be pleased.

Tribune

The actual, geographical Fleet Street.

For the first time in my long 40-year-old career I have started to work off Fleet Street in New Fetter lane and my local is El Vino's, where old hacks never die.

Fleet Street, today more regarded as a heritage tourist stop where people reminisce about print and hot metal, will now become the venue for a new cyberspace revolution - the rebirth of detailed investigative journalism on the web.

Sunday Business

Nice to see journalists back where they belong.

We dare you not to click on it.

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