On Tuesday Reuters editor-in-chief, David Schlesinger urged the International Olympics Committee to rethink its accreditation rules and strategy for media/news coverage of forthcoming Games to take into account new forms of newsgathering, publishing and the democratisation of both in the hands of the non-journalist.
Schlesinger (or @daschles) is well placed to comment on such issues – during this year’s World Economics Forum, the Reuters head beat one of his own correspondents to a report by tweeting his own updates from George Soros’ speech.
Last night, he also described to the IOC how he had been pressured to remove a Reuters blog post after he took pictures of the Beijing Games without proper editorial photographer accreditation.
His comments also builds on the debate ahead of last year’s competition over whether athletes should be allowed to blog/report from the Games.
You can read Schlesinger’s full speech on Reuters’ blogs.
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News and information company Thomson Reuters has confirmed that it is cutting 140 journalist posts by the end of the year.
According to the Guardian, head of news David Schlesinger wrote an internal email which explained that areas of “natural overlap and duplication in coverage” existed between the two companies and that as a result jobs would go.
The cuts, which will take place later in the year, are expected mostly to be of editorial staff in Europe.
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Jobs, Journalism and tagged David Schlesinger, Europe, guardian, head of news, journalist, mergers, reuters, The Guardian, thomson reuters on May 19, 2008 by Oliver Luft.
Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana, 23, was killed yesterday in Gaza by an explosion, the media group has announced.
Shana, who is the first Reuters journalist to be killed in Gaza, was on his way to cover an incident when his vehicle stopped. On getting out of the vehicle an explosion killed Shana and two bystanders.
A soundman travelling with Shana escaped serious injury.
David Schlesinger, Reuters editor-in-chief, has called for an investigation into the incident.
“This tragic incident shows the risks journalists take every day to report the news. All governments and organisations have a responsibility to take the utmost care to protect professionals trying to do their jobs,” he said in a statement.
Shana had worked for Reuters in Gaza for over three years and was one of 15 journalists from the news organisation in the region.
UPDATE – Reuters says Shana was killed by an Israeli tank shell. A medical examination has suggested that metal darts from the shell, which explodes in the air, caused the cameraman’s death. A Reuters video shows the incident.
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