Launches
Yoga
Sector: lifestyle
Frequency: monthly
Price: £2.95 Publisher: Mind, Body and Spirit
Print run: 35,000
Yoga is a 100-page monthly glossy dedicated to alternative lifestyles. The first issue includes articles on tantric sex, a look at the latest fashionable workout clothes and features an interview with GMTV’s Penny Smith.
Editor: Ali Malik
Contact: Yoga, 6 Brewer Street, London, W1F 0sd Tel: 020 7439 6202
Fax: 020 7439 6203
Website: www.yogamagazine.co.uk
Events
The Media Society
Celebrities can sell everything nowadays. The Media Society is hosting a debate on whether the media might kill the goose that lays the golden circulation figures. Chaired by Carole Stone, author of Networking, the Art of Making Friends, the panel includes Edwina Currie, Heat editor Mark Frith, Roy Greenslade, Cosmo Landesman and News of the World associate editor Phil Taylor. Tickets cost £12 for Media Society members and £14 for non-members.
Date: 27 February
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: The Hippodrome, Leicester Square, wc2
Contact: Dorothy Josem, Flat 1, 24 Park Road, NW1 4SH
Tel: 020 7723 5059
E-mail: dot@djosem.freeserve.co.uk
Awards
Bridgestone Digital Reporter
Aspiring motor sport journalists aged 18 to 30 can win the opportunity to cover a Formula One race . Three finalists will also attend a press event in Mugello, Italy, to provide interviews and reports for tyre manufacturer Bridgestone Europe’s website and will visit Ferrari’s headquarters. Entrants must complete an online entry form by 28 February at www.bridgestone-eu.com.
Contact: Bert Vanneste
Tel: 32 2714 6755
The Martha Gellhorn prize for journalism
Entries are invited for the fourth annual journalism prize in honour of Martha Gellhorn. The subject matter can focus on the UK or abroad but must be a human story that cuts through the established version of events and brings to the fore an issue that has been buried by current news agendas. A maximum of three articles from 31 January 2002 to January 2003 can be submitted and entrants must include six copies of each piece. The winner receives £5,000. Previous journalists who have won the prize are Jeremy Harding, Geoffrey Lean and Nick Davies.
Contact: The Martha Gellhorn Trust Prize, Rutherfords, Herbert Road, Salcombe, Devon, TQ8 8HN
Correction
Indobrit magazine launch
Pagination: 140
Contact: 5 Argyll Mansions, 303 Kings Road,
London SW3 5ER
Editor: Farah Damji
E-mai: farah@indobritmag.com
Website: www.indobritmag.comarah Damji
Reminders
Investigative journalism workshop
Date: 20 February 2003
Venue: Central London
Contact: Cleland Thom, 22 The Green, Chichester, PO19 6XN
E-mail: cleland.thom@tesco.net
Council Newspaper and Magazine conference
Date: 11 March 2003
Venue: LGA Conference Centre, London, SW1
Tel: 020 8668 6969/3311
E-mail: info@event-x.com
Newspaper Press Fund Annual lunch
Date: 21 March 2003
Venue: The Holte Suite, Villa Park, Birmingham
Tel: Val Deeley on 01562 883290
E-mail: valdeeley@valdeeley.freeserve.co.uk
FIPP world magazine congress, fair and exhibition
Date: 26-28 May 2003
Venue: Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
Tel: 020 7404 4169
Website: www.fipp.com
York Press Write Stuff Competition
Deadline: 31 May
Contact: Sky Ferrey, editor’s secretary, the Evening Press, 76-86 Walmgate, York YO1 9YN
Tel: 01904 653051
E-mail: sky.ferrey@ycp.co.uk
Website: www.thisisyork.co.uk
Local reporting awards
Deadline: 11 July
Contact: Martha Leary-Tanner, Newspaper Society, 74-77 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DA
Tel: 020 7636 7014
E-mail: martha_lt@newspapersoc.org.uk
Website: www.newspapersoc.org.uk
Laurence stern fellowship
Closing date for entries: 18 February 2003
Contact: Robert Jones, Department of Journalism, City University, London, EC1V 0HB
E-mail: b.jones@city.ac.uk
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