Farage and Wootton top GB News staff share awards | Solutions journalism how-to
Good morning and welcome to your daily media news briefing on Tuesday, 7 November, brought to you today in association with United Robots – the automated editorial content specialists. Recently, they supported Media Voices to write a white paper, Practical AI for Local Media, which is available to download now.
How much does GB News love Nigel Farage, let me count the ways.
Well we can, thanks to new Companies House filings which reveal how many shares GB News has awarded to its executives and presenters.
Suspended presenter Dan Wootton also features highly on the list. We have all the data on those GB News shareholders here, which also provides a handy public league table of the channel’s most-valued staff.
News avoidance has been one of the big disruptive themes post-pandemic: the growing segment of the audience who sees switching off from the news as an act of self-care.
One way to engage with that audience is providing them with information which helps them to tackle some of the issues which concern them. This makes for a brighter read and might even change the world for the better.
Bauer Academy is hosting a one-day training course on solutions journalism on 21 November.
This will be one of a series of one-day courses offered in association with Press Gazette. The others are:
Ecosystem of a Story – 28 November, 2023
Introduction to Data Journalism – 6 December, 2023
Newsroom Resilience – 16 January, 2024
AI in the Newsroom – 23 January, 2024.
All courses are delivered live, online, via Microsoft Teams and are limited to just ten places each.
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New from Press Gazette
GB News shareholders: Nigel Farage and Dan Wootton top staff awards
Despite the awards, very few of the 28 staff given shares enjoy any rights over the company.
Solutions journalism: How to offer audience an alternative news agenda
“Martin Lewis, he of MoneySavingExpert and Good Morning Britain fame, is the perfect example of how providing solutions to a wide range of problems can help foster a strong relationship with an audience.”
News in brief
A service to commemorate those journalists, photographers, camera crew, sound crew and support staff who have died on the frontline will be held at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street tonight at 6:30pm. (St Bride’s)
India could offer the next big growth market for UK and US media companies to expand. A new report says online advertising will grow in the country at a compound annual rate of 12.7% over the next four years. (Financial Times)
Incoming Washington Post chief executive Sir William Lewis spoke to his new employees in Washington DC yesterday, reportedly telling them he is not yet in a position to lay out a strategic plan for the business but affirming amid staff buyouts that he supports labour unions. (The Daily Beast)
US newspaper giant Gannett has hired 35-year-old Bryan West to fill its much-publicised "Taylor Swift reporter" vacancy. A Gannett executive told Variety that among the candidates for the position was "one very established White House reporter". (Variety)
For the first time, broadcast news outlets will be eligible for Pulitzer Prizes - but only for entries that "rely essentially on written journalism", for example text articles published to a broadcaster's website. (Pulitzer Board)
The Verge's Twitter-inspired website redesign has reportedly increased the number of "loyal" users (i.e. those visiting at least five times a month) by 62% between January and September of this year - although the outlet’s total user base growth has been more sluggish. (Adweek)
News outlets have been allowed to embed with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza for the first time since the current conflict began, but only under the condition the military can review materials before publication. CNN's Jeremy Diamond said the IDF "only asked us to delete one piece of footage, which showed sensitive military technology on one of their armoured personnel carriers" and they asked the broadcaster to blur map images, soldiers' faces and anything that could reveal the location of their base. (CNN)
Podcast 59: From subscriptions to membership at Elle UK
Elle UK editor Kenya Hunt talks to Press Gazette about why she hopes readers will pay £150 a year to become fashion industry insiders as members of Elle Collective.
She also talks about the future of magazines, diversity and why magazine editors have a duty to present images of female beauty responsibly.
Previously on Press Gazette
Telegraph bid contender Sir William Lewis named CEO of Washington Post
Piers Morgan TalkTV show hits 2m subs helped by Israel-Hamas war coverage
The National cleared by IPSO over Joanna Cherry ‘sacked for transphobia’ claim
Regional digital top 50: Half of UK’s biggest local news websites grew audience in September
At 1,500 stories per day, Mail Online is UK’s most prolific news website
