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Winner: European Parliament Prize for Journalism 2010

Posted on 22 May 2010 by JCM

From the European Parliament website:

The winners of this year’s European Parliament Journalism Prize received their awards at a ceremony in Brussels on 13 October. There were four categories: written press, radio, TV and the Internet. The Internet prize was won by UK blogger James Clive-Matthews – also known as “Nosemonkey” – for his article “EUtopia – What percentage of laws come from the EU?”.

The judges liked the wit and humour in Mr Clive-Matthews’ blog but they also noted the amount of research he put into it, describing him as “one of the few bloggers covering the EU seriously”.

More from Journalism.co.uk:

A British journalist has been awarded €5000 after coming first in the online category of the European Parliament Prize for Journalism.

James Clive-Matthews won the award for an article on his blog, EUtopia, “What percentage of laws come from the EU?”.

He was praised by the jury for “extraordinary research work”. A spokesman for the jury said: “Mr Clive-Matthews is one of the few bloggers covering the EU seriously and has carried out a statistical and comparative study which can be read with lot of pleasure.”

And some interviews recorded after the ceremony:


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Appearing on BBC News

Posted on 03 July 2009 by JCM

As one of the longest-running bloggers on EU affairs – with a reputation for non-partisan, critical impartiality (see the blog’s testimonials) – the BBC approached me in May 2009 ahead of the European Parliamentary elections.

I appeared twice on the flagship BBC World News Tonight, which may only go out on BBC Four in the UK, but is the flagship programme of the global BBC World News channel – the most watched news channel in the world. The first was to discuss the public response to the election campaign, before the elections of early June, the second to have a look at the result.

Both appearances can be watched in full below:

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Working for Microsoft

Posted on 03 July 2009 by JCM

Since September 2009 I have been working at MSN, currently as Managing Editor of the MSN International Editorial Solutions team, coordinating 47 country sites that generate >500m PVs daily.

Starting as Regional Editor for MSN EMEA (also editing the Irish and South African portals day to day), the job involved producing and co-ordinating content across more than 20 MSN country portals across three continents – representing daily traffic of several scores of millions of unique visitors.

Having helped develop new strategies to increase coordination and traffic across the EMEA portals, from July 2011 I shifted into a global role – performing much the same job across all 47 markets in which MSN has a presence, with a stronger focus on coordinating multi-market editorial efforts around key events and content types, as well as acting as editorial liaison between editors in international markets and the Content Management System engineering team, the image licensing team, and the International HQ team.

The remit covers all content types across all subject areas, from photo galleries about the latest celebrity goings on to in-depth reports about major news events, building specials on things like the Oscars, football World Cup and Olympics through to helping plan and negotiate worldwide deals with content partners.

Much of the job is based around negotiation and encouragement of co-operation across markets to maximise editorial efficiency – encouraging France to work with Germany, Turkey with Greece, Israel with Switzerland, Spain with Sweden, Taiwan with China, Argentina with Mexico and so on – building on my decade’s worth of editorial experience to identify key areas that could help country editors and their teams to gain as much as possible from working in different ways.

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UACES-Reuters Awards

Posted on 03 July 2009 by JCM

J Clive-Matthews made the five-person shortlist and received the Jury’s Commendation for the inaugural UACES-Reuters Reporting Europe Award in March 2008, alongside BBC World Affairs Correspondent Alan Little (the winner), the Financial Times‘ Berlin Bureau Chief Bertrand Beniot, The Economist‘s Europe Editor John Peet, and the BBC’s Europe Editor Mark Mardell.

UACES-Reuters Reporting Europe Award

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James Clive-Matthews - writer, editor and online content consultant. It is currently undergoing reconstruction, so apologies for any glitches or other oddness

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Past work and testimonials

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"In the often fractious and shouty world of Britain’s political blogs, J Clive Matthews' balanced, informed and entertaining writing on British and European politics manages to rise above the murk – whatever part of the political spectrum you live on"
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