Key20Media: Web Editor vacancy

European Business Awards: Web Editor

Key Accountabilities for this role:

Create, generate and manage news content for the European Business Awards website on a Pan-European basis

Activate and manage social media platforms and associated commentary from the Awards programme

Generate journalistic content from participants within the Awards with a keen eye for business stories to publish online

Also Accountable for:

Develop clear, effective and regular communication between participants, sponsors and the EBA press office in terms of digital content

Manage all content for EBAs digital platforms and social media

Reporting on performance to the appropriate line manager

Upholding the organisational culture and EBA personal qualities

Day to day responsibilities

Creating regular content for the EBA website for distribution online, keeping it fresh up to date and news rich.

Manage content for the EBA website in terms of stake holder interest, such as generating news worthy content for the media centre, ensuring sponsors online toolkits are kept up to date and relevant, managing media rich content such as films, interviews and downloads.

Plan the style of copy required and the frequency with which it will need updating.

Create schedules and deadlines for producing new content and writing it in an interesting and appealing manner

Generating case study material through identifying and interviewing news worthy participants past and present.

Managing and developing content for social media engagement, such as Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook etc.

Respond to digital content requests from EBAs digital partners such as sponsor’s digital marketers, web development teams, PR offices.

Experience & Ability

· You will have a strong business to business journalistic track record and the ability to deliver against tight deadlines.

· Robust social media skills and knowledge of Content Management Systems such as Word Press, Expression Engine etc.

· You will have excellent communication skills, both written and oral, be able to undertake research using a variety of sources, be creative and able to alter their style of writing to reflect their audience.

Hours &Location

· The number of days required will vary during the Awards campaign period (January – December 2011) between 2-4 days a week starting at 9am and finishing at 5:30pm.

· The role will be based at the European Business Awards office, 9 The Leathermarket, Weston Street, London, SE1 3ER.

· Rates according to experience.

Responses to paul.richards@key20media.com

Paul Richards

Managing Director

Key20 Media Limited

9 The Leathermarket

Weston Street

London SE1 3ER

United Kingdom

Dir: +44 (0) 20 7234 3545

Mob: +44 (0) 7786 885 831

Fax: +44 (0) 20 7234 3536

Wenlock Festival Poetry Competition

Wenlock Festival Poetry Prize
Open poem up to 40 lines, previously unpublished. Fee £5 per poem. Prizes £500, £200, £100. Closing date February 21. Judges include Carol Ann Duffy who will award the prizes during Wenlock Poetry Festival, April 29-May 1. Full details: www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org

Wenlock Poetry Festival, Much Wenlock Shropshire Friday April 29 - May 1. Exciting programme in beautiful Shropshire - readings/ workshops/ slams/ children's events/ fun with poets including Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion, Ian McMillan and his Orchestra, Jackie Kay, Simon Armitage and many more. Full details: www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org

William Stopha: Hope for Robots

William Stopha (a.k.a. former MA student Chris Mitchell) has a new show:

The show: Hope for Robots

Location: Camden People's Theatre, 60 Hampstead Rd NW1 (2 mins from Euston Square or Warren St)

When: Sunday 23rd Jan 2011, Sunday 30th Jan 2011, Sunday 6th Feb 2011

Time: 8.00pm (Doors and bar at 7.30pm)

Flyer: http://bit.ly/eteIip

Press Release: http://bit.ly/hSplHK

Review (Spoiler alert): http://bit.ly/idzA5N

Centre for Media & Culture Research: Spring Events

Friday 21 January, 2.00pm, Studio 55, Keyworth Building

Reconfiguring Caribbean Literary History

Suzanne Scafe (Department of Culture, Writing & Performance)
This session will talk through the findings from a research project investigating the relationship between Caribbean literary production during the period 1930-50 and the news media that ‘housed’ it. The research focussed on a body of literature that has never been recognised as such, but which forms the basis for more familiar forms of national/nationalist and anti-colonial literary texts produced from 1950 onwards and published in London and New York. This talk will discuss how this material has formed the basis of an argument (currently being developed for publication) about literary history and nation-formation.

Living Montage: the Subject & the Interval in the Portrait Film

Patrick Tarrant (Department of Arts & Media)
Pedro Costa’s Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (2001) is a portrait of the filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Daniel Huillét, one that renders an image of the couple living and becoming on screen, while acknowledging that the duration of their lives lies substantially in the intervals between and before shots. Straub claims at one point that psychology in his own films lies ‘in between the shots, in the very montage and in the way the shots are linked to each other, it is extremely subtle psychology.’ And depending on where you look in Costa’s film, one gets a sense that elided duration is the very ground of the film’s performative articulations about presence and about subjects in time. Springing from the author’s own filmmaking, this paper offers an account of how ‘Living Montage’ constitutes both an applied filmmaking methodology and a tool for film analysis, and thereby provides an example of the productivity and dialectical play of practice-led research.

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Wednesday 23 March, 12.00pm, Room L260, London Road Building

Image Warfare: A New War Paradigm For the Twenty-First Century

Nathan Roger (Swansea University)
The September 11, 2001 terror attacks marked a paradigm shift in terms of contemporary terrorism and contemporary war: a shift from Digital War (which dominated the post-Cold War period) to Image Warfare. This paper explores how the image as circulated within society has changed from what is broadly conceived of as a mass media society to that of an information society or a rhizomatic condition and how this has resulted in the weaponization of images. This paper also develops three new conceptual terms: ‘image munitions’, ‘counter-image munitions’ and ‘remediation battles’, which together provide a framework for exploring image warfare.

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Thursday 9 June, Room K205, Keyworth Building

‘Farewell Nathan Barley’? The Rise and Fall of the Freelance Creative

Graham Barnfield (University of East London)
Prior to the so-called credit crunch, it was claimed that the future of employment would involve freelancing, networking and horizontal portfolio projects displacing the vertical career ladder. The creative industries – arts, media, culture, consultancy – were treated as central, and important in New Labour discourse and policy. This paper considers the discourse and infrastructure that gave such (temporary) prestige to this particular aspect of 'creative Britain' and asks whether such 'fictitious variable capital' of working in the cultural industries has a future.