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What journalists need to know about SEO

This is a useful read for any journalist coming to terms with writing for the web and why that means understanding keywords and search engine optimisation. It was written by Shane Richmond, Communities Editor for telegraph.co.uk, for the British Journalism Review. The “Gotcha” headline on a Sun front-page splash about the sinking of the General Belgrano is one of the most famous, or infamous depending on your taste, in the history of British journalism. Yet no web producer with any experience would consider a headline like that today.
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Telegraph.co.uk partners with Wesabe on personal money management site

Telegraph.co.uk has partnered with Wesabe on a co-branded site that lets users manage their money online. Here's one of the Telegraph's personal finance reporters giving it a spin, and here's the announcement from Wesabe.
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Justin’s survival guide for sub-editors

I've been meaning to point to this for a while. It's a post from Justin Williams, workflow guru and assistant editor at Telegraph Media Group in the UK. He talks about the decline of the role of sub-editors, or rather an evolutionary blurring of the lines between what a sub, a news editor, commissioning editor and web editor does. "If I was a reporter now and an old hand sidled up to me and suggested that I might like to retrain as a sub, I’d run a mile. And as for joining one of the nationals’ subbing schemes for graduate trainees … fugeddaboutit."
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New look coming for the UK Telegraph

The UK Telegraph is close to showing off its redesign, which has been in planning for a good while. Martin Stabe spells out the changes (and has a few images) over at PressGazette.co.uk.
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