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Main feature 14 Precision tools or click crazy? The challenges of using metrics


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hat makes a good story in these digital times? It used to be straightforward – a proper old-fashioned scoop that other newspapers or broadcasters were


forced to follow. Now it’s not so easy, the scoops aren’t kept secret til the last minute, they’re


shared online as soon as possible. So we have to look at other metrics to gauge the impact of a story. In our cover feature, Neil Merrick guides us through ways that might make us digitally savvy or click crazy. Family and social affairs reporting can be difficulty, requiring


writers to get close to their subjects but not to cross a fine and often unclear line where they might become too close. Louise Tickle, an experienced family affairs correspondent, looks at how to try to tread a very difficult path. We also have a new series with Jonathan Sale reporting on famous media anniversaries, starting with how producing the first newspaper got an early pioneer arrested. On top of this we have our media expert Raymond Snoddy commenting on the implications for press freedom of the Sir Cliff Richard privacy victory. And there’s news, views, arts, letters and to end everything on


a humorous note our columnist Chris Proctor. I hope you can find some time in the summer holidays to enjoy the magazine.


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Cover picture Stuart Kinlough


News 03 Northern journalists face job cuts Wide range of titles affected


04 Cuts at BBC politics programmes Union raises concern over quality


05 Deficit looms for union NUJ under budget pressure


06 Concern over RTE contracts Workers trapped with fewer rights


Features


10 Looking back to: 1621 in the media


13 A ghost in the machine The problem of suddenly being ignored


16 A life, not just a story Difficulties of reporting family issues


Regulars


09 Viewpoint 18 Starting Out 25 Story behind the picture 26 And finally...


Arts with Attitude Pages 20-21


Raymond Snoddy Page 19


Letters Page 23


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