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CADWALLADR DATA STORY WINS AWARD Carole Cadwalladr has won the L’Esprit de RSF prize for her work showing how personal data was used in online electoral campaigns. Her investigation, published in The Observer, showed the power of digital platforms, especially Facebook, and examined the activities of data consultant Cambridge Analytica.


TODAY PODCASTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BBC Radio 4’s Today programme is launching a podcast with a ‘different take’ on the news to attract younger listeners. Beyond Today is presented by Tina Daheley and Matthew Price. It is staffed mainly by female journalists younger than 30 from across the BBC.


DAILY POLITICS DIGEST STARTS UP Former Evolve Politics editor Matt Turner has launched a concise evening briefing on UK politics. The Communiqué UK briefing is released daily through Twitter and Facebook (@TheCommuniqueUK). A YouTube channel is planned for 2019.


Vigils held for Jamal Khashoggi


The union held vigils outside the Saudi Arabian embassies in London and Dublin to mark the death of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who was killed inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October. Khashoggi, a former newspaper editor and


editor in chief of a broadcasting channel, left Saudi Arabia in June 2017 to go into self- imposed exile in the US where he wrote for the Washington Post. He wrote articles critical of the Saudi


government and the country’s crown prince and king and he had also opposed Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen. With nearly


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He wrote articles critical of the Saudi government and had opposed intervention in Yemen


two million followers on Twitter, he was a high-profile commentator on Arab affairs. This year, he established a new political party called Democracy for the Arab World Now. The vigils were held just before the


International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, a United Nations- recognised day to highlight the number of journalists killed around the world whose murders go unsolved. The NUJ is working with the International


Federation of Journalists to campaign for a UN Convention for the Protection of Journalists.


ESQUIRE MAGAZINE CUTS FREQUENCY Men’s lifestyle magazine Esquire will move from being a monthly to coming out six times a year, and its cover price will rise from £4.35 to £6 from February 2019. Esquire UK, owned by Hearst, has a total circulation of just under 60,500, of which 28,500 magazines are free.


SHROPSHIRE WEEKLY NEWS TITLE CLOSES Weekly news digest magazine Shropshire Weekly has closed after less than eight months. The Midlands News Association, which publishes the Shropshire Star, had struggled to achieve enough sales to sustain it. Shropshire Weekly, launched on March 2, and was aimed at people who did not have time to read a daily newspaper.


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