It wouldn’t be the British Journalism Awards without a good old barney about the nominations. Newsnight and Buzzfeed are jointly nominated for Investigation of the Year for the Kids Co scandal – a story on which they did a lot of good follow-up work but was broken by Miles Goslett in the Speccie. Five months earlier…
Congrats to Newsnight, nominated for a journalism award for its impressive (albeit belated) follow-up to the Spectator's Kids Company scoop.
— Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) November 4, 2015
Odd that Miles Goslett, who broke KidsCo story in Speccie, & many follow-up scoops in MoS, not shortlisted for British Journalism Awards.
— Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) November 4, 2015
And frankly outrageous that Newsnight nominated for Kidsco story, not Goslett. https://t.co/Xa0YNolHw8
— Peter Oborne (@OborneTweets) November 4, 2015
Buzzfeed’s ‘Head of News’ Stuart Millar is probably regretting engaging:
@stuartmillar159 maybe call it a Newsnight/BuzzFeed joint-following-up-of-The-Spectator-Kids-Co-scoop-five-months-later 😉 #SeroSedSerio.
— Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) November 4, 2015
@stuartmillar159 well, grapes do go a bit sour after five months…
— Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) November 4, 2015
Media organisations can pay £75 for a vanity-satisfying nomination, something Newsnight and Buzzfeed apparently wasted no time in doing but Miles Goslett, who is a freelancer, didn’t. As Goslett explains:
“Until February 2015, when The Spectator published my article on Kids Company, not a single bad word about it or its chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh had appeared in the mainstream media.”
You can read the original Goslett scoop here…
The Guardian’s head of news is the latest to twig that former colleagues who’ve jumped to Buzzfeed are getting paid more money for less work:
Delighted to confirm that I am joining @BuzzfeedUK as head of news. Can't wait to get started https://t.co/vic152seYP
— Stuart Millar (@stuartmillar159) August 4, 2015
Millar joins Janine Gibson and James Ball as part of the ongoing exodus from Kings Place to their more productivity-relaxed internet alter ego.
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