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Har du en klar holdning til branding og design, en trænet pen på både dansk og engelsk, kommercielt instinkt og et skarpt analytisk blik med sans for detaljen – så kan vi tilbyde et tremåneders praktikophold på et af Skandinaviens største og førende designbureauer.

Som praktikant i vores Brand Strategy team kommer du til at:

- Udarbejde idéoplæg og brandstrategier

- Finde på navne og tag-lines til danske og internationale virksomheder

- Sparre med vores designere og kreative teams

- Lave research og analyser både globalt og nationalt

- Skrive fængende tekster til kampagner, brochurer og nettet

- Assistere i forbindelse med workshops

Vi lover en dynamisk og afvekslende dag i et internationalt miljø. Dedikerede og søde kolleger fra hele verden. Og et læringsforløb hvor vi løbende vil diskutere, hvilke opgaver du brænder for og som passer til dine erfaringer.

Vi forventer, at du er i gang med en samfundsvidenskabelig,
erhvervsøkonomisk eller humanistisk uddannelse f.eks. på CBS, Københavns Universitet eller RUC.

Praktikopholdet er ulønnet, men efter forløbet er der mulighed for, at praktikopholdet fortsætter som studiejob med løn. Arbejdstiden som praktikant er ca. 37 timer om ugen.

Send motiveret ansøgning, CV og gerne eksempler på dit tekstarbejde til Svante Lindeburg, mail: svl@kontrapunkt.com , tel: 3393 1883 seneste tirsdag den 7. september klokken 12.00. Mærk emnefeltet: Praktikant - Brand Strategy Team.

om Kontrapunkt
Kontrapunkt er et førende skandinavisk strategisk design- og brandbureau. Vi har mere end 60 ansatte fra bl.a. England, Finland, Slovenien, Frankrig, Norge og Japan - og har egne kontorer i København, Århus og Tokyo.

Vi har skabt løsninger for en lang række danske og internationale virksomheder bl.a. Microsoft, SuperLiga, Adidas, Bruuns Bazar, DSB, Danske Bank, Carlsberg, Kulturministeriet, Golden Days, NemID, Nordisk Film, PET og Lego. 

In the Communications Department, which is a part of People & Culture & Sustainability, our primary focus is internal communication. Additionally, we contribute to the external communication in cooperation with Group Communications. Our mission is to support the anchorage of management decisions through the development of relevant standards and specific communication tools. Moreover, we supply knowledge to the organisation which provide understanding of Vestas’ business context as well as the individual’s responsibility and contribution to the business.

Due to an increased focus on internal communication, we are looking for an experienced Communications Advisor for an exciting position. The department is headed by our Communications Manager, to whom you will refer. You will be able to make your personal footprint on the development of the department’s contribution to fulfilling Vestas’ strategy; ”WIND. IT MEANS THE WORLD TO US”. The working culture is based on mutual respect, team spirit and focus on the common goal of the department.

Responsibilities and tasks

Your responsibilities are versatile and demand extensive experience with communication as a tool for management and change. Your task is to transform management decisions into relevant communication for both salaried and hourly paid employees, so that the cultural aspects in our business unit will reach its full potential.

Your primary tasks will be:

• Maintenance of internal communication channels that is production of articles to the intranet, employee magazine, brochures, posters both in electronic and graphical form.
• Preparation of tools for line communication, among other things presentations and message briefs.
• Develop and implement communication strategies, communication plans and packages for selected projects.
• Communication sparring with managers and other stakeholders.
• Implementation of corporate policies and tools developed by Group Communications.
• Constantly improve the department’s value proposition in corporation with relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications

You have an academic background for example as a journalist, cand.public., cand.comm. or similar. You have 3-5 years of experience with communication to stakeholders on (top)management level and can move in elevated circles as well as on the production floor. You have a deep communication expertise related to cross organisational/cross cultural projects and hopefully experience from a production company with a global outlook.

You are capable of ”creating your own job”, and know that timing, precision, holistic overview, trustworthiness and loyalty are critical success factors if communication should make a difference on the bottom line. The professional toolbox is hopefully at the point of bursting. We expect among other things that you:

• Are an excellent writer and communicator with a natural and vibrant language that is able to ’move’ the recipient.
• Are highly organized and structured and an excellent planner.
• Have a strong understanding of strategic communication and branding.
• Have flair for balancing the graphical expression with message and media.
• Have experience with the operation and development of intranet, including user involvement and measurement.
• Communicate fluently in both Danish and English.

You possess an open and involving personality and are a genuine team player. We value initiative and trustworthiness and we see the ideal candidate possessing the following qualities:

• You are a loyal team player and possess cross-functional working skills that ensure the build-up of commitment and trustworthy relationships with internal and external partners in a global environment.
• You have a proactive and extrovert personality.  
• You have strong business acumen as well as customer focused influencing skills.

What we offer

For the right candidate, we offer a unique possibility to take part in building a strong, customer focused communication culture in a modern work environment. The environment is international and employees are driven and dedicated towards achieving world class results.

Additional information

Primary work location will be in Hammel and the immediate vicinity. Travelling is to be expected.

For additional information about the position please contact Charlotte Faarup, Communications Manager, Communications on tel. no. +45 4083 6456.

Please apply online at www.vestas.com  by clicking on ‘jobs’ and ‘job openings’.

Type in reference code: 00006862

Closing date

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed continuously.

We expect to conduct interviews in mid August 2010.

Jeff Ford, Channel 5's newly appointed director of programmes, will report to Ashford

Paul Ashford, editorial director at Richard Desmond's media company, Northern & Shell, will oversee the majority of Channel 5's programming operations, according to a new management structure.

Ashford is also responsible for Desmond's titles including OK! magazine and the Daily and Sunday Express.

Jeff Ford, Channel 5's newly appointed director of programmes, will report to Ashford, who has taken a leading role in the current £20m cost-cutting drive at Channel 5.

Ford will oversee all of Channel 5's commissioning, acquisitions and digital channels, marketing and legal compliance. He will also have editorial responsibility for Channel 5's children's strand Milkshake!.

However, operationally, Milkshake! is to be based at the studios of Desmond's adult pay-TV business in Docklands, which is run by Paul Dunthorne, managing director of Portland TV.

Continuity presenters and playout facilities for Milkshake! will be housed at Portland TV's Selsdon Way premises in Docklands, east London. The Portland studios are also the base for Desmond's adults channels, which operate under the brands Television X – which promotes itself as "The home of British Porn" – Red Hot, Fantasy and Gay TV.

Kelly Williams, the head of TV airtime sales for Channel 5, is the only other senior executive along with Ford who is staying with the broadcaster following Desmond's takeover.

Williams will report to Stan Myerson, Desmond's right-hand man and joint managing director of Northern & Shell. He will be responsible for airtime sales, commercial partnerships and research.

Channel 5's finance and HR will be overseen by Rob Sanderson, Northern & Shell's group finance director; while the company's other joint managing director, Martine Ellice, is taking over responsibility for legal, facilities and IT.

Last month, Desmond highlighted Milkshake! as one of Channel 5's "success stories" and said that children's output might be in line for a boost from the £300m-a-year pot he has pledged to plough into the broadcaster's programming budget.

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• Channel 5
• Television industry
• Northern & Shell
• Richard Desmond
• Media business

Faktum er, at vi driver en god forretning. Stemningen er i top, kunderne er mange og krævende, vores internationale netværk fungerer og leverer ikke bare lokale opgaver, men også spændende internationale muligheder og uhindret adgang til nogle af verdens skarpeste rådgivere fra Sacramento til Shanghai og Harare til Helsinki.

Men vi mangler to seniorrådgivere, der skal være vigtige spillere på et ambitiøst team, der vil og skal vokse. Måske er du den ene?

Vi løser en bred vifte af opgaver, men er særligt stærke inden for forandrings- og ledelseskommunikation, corporate kommunikation, krise og issues management, medierelationer og public affairs. Vi forestiller os, at den ene af vores nye seniorrådgivere er særlig erfaren inden for issues management og krisekommunikation, og at den anden har prøvet det meste inden for intern forandrings- og ledelseskommunikation.  Men lad os være ærlige: Selvom vi godt ved, hvad vi vil have, er vi ikke afvisende overfor, at der kan sidde en stjerne derude med lidt anderledes erfaringer. Så hold dig ikke tilbage. Nogle ting ligger imidlertid helt fast. Af vores nye rådgivere forventer vi nemlig, at de:

• Har mindst 6-8 års erfaring (gerne mere) efter endt uddannelse med analyse, strategi og rådgivning inden for kommunikation
• Har stået i spidsen for komplekse og langsigtede projekter og har erfaring med at arbejde på tværs af discipliner og platforme – også når det gælder eksekveringen
• Har konsulenterfaring og derfor ved, at kundernes tillid er den vigtigste forudsætning for egen succes
• Har erfaring med at lede teams og medarbejdere
• Er skarpe analytikere med blik for helheden og sans for detaljen
• Kan begå sig i både bestyrelseslokaler og produktionshaller
• Har forretningsforståelse og politisk tæft
• Er ambitiøse nok til at ville gøre en forskel, men modne nok til at vide, at de bedste resultater opnås i fællesskab med andre
• Er udadvendte og har et stort og alsidigt netværk og dokumenterede salgserfaringer
• Taler og skriver engelsk på højt niveau

Hvis du mener, du kan leve op til vores forventninger og har lyst til at blive en del af en velfungerende global virksomhed, hvor fagligheden er i top, mulighederne mange, ambitionerne høje, hverdagen hektisk men humøret højt, så glæder vi os til at høre fra dig.

Har du spørgsmål, er du velkommen til at kontakte Kim Larsen på 28870506 eller Maria Sennels på 21460077.

Din ansøgning, CV og andre relevante dokumenter, der behandles med største fortrolighed, sender du til job.dk@bm.com senest den 17. september. Vi regner med at indkalde til første samtale i uge 38. Vi har altid en grundig rekrutteringsproces med mindst to samtaler og en caseopgave. Til gengæld lover vi at sige det, som det er – både før, under og efter.

The new Google service will bring the web to TV screens – the announcement comes a week after a new version of Apple TV was unveiled

Google will launch its Google TV service, which it intends will bring the web to TV screens, in the US this autumn and around the world next year, its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said today.

In its sights will be a slice of the £117bn global TV advertising market – which it will want to add to its online advertising revenues, which totalled $22.9bn (£14.94bn) in 2009.

The announcement, just a week after Apple's chief executive, Steve Jobs, unveiled a miniaturised version of his Apple TV, which lets people rent films and TV shows, and stream content from YouTube, shows that the television set has become the new battleground for the two companies, which are also competing for market share in the smartphone and tablet computer markets.

On the latter topic, Schmidt told the closing session of the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin that Google will announce partnerships later this year with computer companies making tablet computers rivalling Apple's iPad, and that they will use Google's new Chrome operating system for computers rather than its Android product, which has been used so far on smartphones and a slew of tablet computers announced at the IFA show.

Schmidt said the Google TV service, which would allow full internet browsing via the television, would be free, and that Google would work with a variety of programme makers and electronics manufacturers to bring it to consumers.

But Google does not envisage becoming a programme producer in its own right, as that does not fit its model – which is to use other people's content rather than to create its own. The only content that Google produces itself is Street View, which has been the source of a number of privacy complaints in various countries.

"We will work with content providers but it is very unlikely that we will get into actual content production," Schmidt told journalists after his speech.

Google TV will consist of software written by Google embedded into hardware made by other companies: in the US, Schmidt said, it will launch on three products – an HDTV set and a Blu-ray player from Sony, and a set-top box from Logitech. Google will also run a marketplace for small apps to run on Google TV. The content will use Adobe's Flash Player, used on video sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. Demonstrations of the TV at the show suggested that it will look like a simplified computer interface, with widgets offering information about the weather, time and calendar, but also with links to web browsers, Facebook, email and YouTube.

However, there is still doubt about how easy it will be to integrate content intended for viewing on a computer with that for a TV set. Google's own guide for developers says that "all input devices for Google TV will have QWERTY keyboards" but adds that "users needs interactions that are fast and easy to do – at a distance, with one hand, in the dark." It also hints that people may be able to control the screen via a mouse, but admits that "mouse control is difficult" on a TV set that is on the other side of the room from the user.

• Google
• Television
• Apple
• Digital media
• Advertising
• Internet
• YouTube

Nyoprettet afdeling for kundekommunikation søger en nysgerrig, idérig og løsningsorienteret kommunikationskonsulent, som gennem entusiasme, en stærk faglighed og stor forretningsforståelse kan være med til at skabe en unik platform for kundeoplevelsen i PFA. Opgaverne vil være meget varierende. Der vil både være konkrete skriveopgaver, som skal løses på et højt niveau, men også mindre projektstyringsopgaver af blandt andet digitale projekter. Du er med fra idéfase til udførsel. Idéoplæg og kommunikationsanalyser danner grundlag for vores løsninger, som du også skal være med til at udforme. Du hjælper med at bære nye ideer ud i organisationen og har fokus på at være kundens ambassadør internt i organisationen.

Hvad kendetegner dig?

Du brænder mere end de fleste, og du er nysgerrig, når det drejer sig om nye måder at kommunikere på, nye platforme og nye budskaber, der skal formidles. Du tør udfordre vanetænkning, og har altid dine faglige argumenter på plads. Du ser kundekommunikation som proces frem for enkelte kontaktpunkter. Du ser samarbejde som et præmis for at opnå gode resultater, og for dig er netværk på alle niveauer (internt såvel som eksternt) en naturlig del af dit arbejde. Du er i stand til både at operere på et strategisk niveau og samtidig kunne skrive tekster i trykte såvel som digitale medier.

Du er cand.mag., cand.comm. eller lign. og har erfaring med at kommunikere med kunder. Måske har du været med til at vende en virksomheds kundekommunikation til en kundeorienteret kommunikation, hvor kundens behov var i centrum. Erfaring fra eller kendskab til den finansielle sektor er et plus men ikke et kardinalpunkt.

Hvad tilbyder vi?

Du bliver en del af et team med både kommunikationskonsulenter og forretningseksperter, hvor omgangstonen er uformel, og hvor humor er en væsentlig del af hverdagen. Afdelingen har netop drevet udviklingen af en iPhone applikation til pensionskunderne og en iPad applikation til brug i rådgivningssamtalen.

Vi tilbyder dig et job i en virksomhed, som har stor fokus på personlig og faglig udvikling. I PFA er samarbejde og respekt nøgleordene i hverdagen. Lønnen er god, og der følger en attraktiv pensions- og forsikringsordning med jobbet. Klik her for at læse mere om fordelene ved at arbejde i PFA.

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Vil du vide mere om stillingen, er du velkommen til at kontakte Jesper Høi Jensen på 24884254

Send din ansøgning her senest den 15.september

PFA har ca. 1.100 ansatte og adskiller sig ved at være kundeejet. Det betyder, at stort set hele den værdi, vi skaber, går til kunderne og ikke til aktionærerne. I vores arbejde er tre målsætninger centrale. Kundetilfredshed, medarbejdertilfredshed og økonomisk værdiskabelse. Du kan læse mere om vores værdier, målsætninger og visioner på www.pfa.dk. Vi bor på Sundkrogsgade 4 ved Nordhavn station på Østerbro i København.

Duncan takes chief executive role at luxury car dealer, having left Channel 4 last November

Andy Duncan, the former chief executive of Channel 4, has been appointed to the same role at luxury car dealer HR Owen.

Duncan, who left Channel 4 after five years as chief executive in November 2009 and received almost £1.5m for his final 11 months as part of a departure deal, will join the company on 4 October. He will have a seat on the HR Owen board and takes over from Nick Lancaster, who left the company in May.

"It is a real coup for the company to attract an individual of Andy's calibre," said Jon Walden, the chairman of HR Owen. "His outstanding track record in general management, marketing and sales, together with his extensive experience of the fast-changing new technology of the internet, will be highly beneficial as we build our business for the future, and we are looking forward to working with him."

Before joining Channel 4, Duncan was head of marketing at the BBC, where he was one of the architects of Freeview, and prior to that had a 17-year career in marketing at Unilever. Duncan has been responsible for brands including I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, PG Tips and Bachelor Supernoodles.

HR Owen reported a pre-tax profit of £726,000 in the six months to the end of June, down from almost £6.5m in the same period last year. However, the £6.5m figure included an exceptional one-off gain of £7.5m meaning that HR Owen actually moved back into trading profitability in the first half of this year.

According to motortrader.com, which cites an advertisement for the role that appeared in the Sunday Times, Duncan is being paid around £250,000 as a basic salary as well as unspecified benefits, a bonus scheme and a long term incentive plan.

Duncan's basic salary at Channel 4 was £670,000 a year, until he took a voluntary pay cut bringing it down to under £500,000.

According to the Sunday Times ad the successful chief executive applicant needed to be "an inspirational leader with strong strategic skills, consumer orientation and a track record of building successful businesses in sectors where high levels of quality and service are demanded and delivered".

Following the departure of Lancaster, three other HR Owen board members resigned: Nick Mason, the former drummer of Pink Floyd, a well-known car enthusiast; Tony Smith, who has managed bands including Genesis, and the hotel operator Ramon Pajares.

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• Andy Duncan
• Channel 4
• Television industry
• Media business
• Automotive industry

Law experts dismiss police claims that they cannot investigate if victim has already listened to phone message as 'nonsense'

Claims by police and prosecutors that cases of hacking into voicemails could not be investigated if the victim had already listened to their message were dismissed as "nonsense" today by experts in the law surrounding interception.

Addressing the home affairs select committee today John Yates, the assistant Metropolitan police commissioner, repeated earlier claims by police that cases of hacking into voicemails could only be prosecuted if the victim had not yet listened to their messages.

"That is nonsense, and a recurring problem with this police position in this case," said Simon McKay, author of Covert Policing Law & Practice. "The police are getting confused about a number of things relating to the evidential status of a voicemail.

"The law is that in the nanosecond between someone's voice being converted into an electromagnetic system and being transmitted to the recipient who listens to the voicemail, that's the course of transmission. At some point between these two points the hacker has been diverting a copy for his own use, and that is an offence."

Experts say that although the law under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa), which governs the interception of phone communications, is complex, draft government guidelines clarify the illegality of hacking into voicemails.

Those guidelines on the use of the act states that it is illegal to intercept communications "at any time when the communication is being stored on the communication system in such a way as to enable the intended recipient to have access to it", which experts say includes voicemails.

"I don't know where the police are getting this interpretation from," a senior lawyer close to the case said. "It's well known that Ripa is not the clearest piece of legislation, but these guidelines seem pretty clear."

The Crown Prosecution Service said that it stood by its interpretation of the law, which it gave during evidence to the culture, media and sport select committee in July 2009.

"We stand by what we said to the committee and do not wish to add to it except to say that in bringing the prosecution we interpreted the relevant law following careful consideration and advice from very experienced counsel," a CPS spokesperson said.

• News of the World phone-hacking scandal
• Newspapers & magazines
• Newspapers
• News of the World
• National newspapers
• Privacy & the media

John Yates, the assistant Metropolitan police commissioner, tells MPs that police are likely to interview the prime minister's director of communications

The chair of the home affairs select committee today launched a new inquiry into the use of unauthorised phone tapping.

Keith Vaz announced the decision soon after hearing evidence from John Yates, the senior police officer involved in the original investigation

The development came as it emerged that David Cameron's PR chief, Andy Coulson, faces police questioning over his role in phone hacking when he was the editor of the News of the World.

Coulson has repeatedly insisted he was unaware of the practice being used by members of his team.

The former editor is at the centre of allegations made by Sean Hoare, one of his former reporters, last week. Hoare claimed he "actively encouraged" him to hack into people's voicemail messages.

The Metropolitan police is facing renewed pressure over its handling of the original case amid fresh claims that its 2006 investigation into phone tapping by the Sunday tabloid had lacked rigour and missed the scale of intrusion into people's privacy.

The committee will investigate the definition of the offences relating to unauthorised tapping or hacking and the ease of prosecuting such offences.

It will also look at the police response to such offences, especially the treatment of those whose communications have been interceptedM, and what the police are doing to control such offences.

Vaz said: "The evidence of [Met police] assistant commissioner John Yates today raised a number of questions of importance about the law on phone hacking, the way the police deal with such breaches of the law and the manner in which victims are informed of those breaches. I hope that this inquiry will clarify all these important areas."

It will be the second inquiry conducted by MPs. Earlier this year, the culture, media and sport select committe published a highly critical 167-page report condemning the "collective amnesia" and "deliberate obfuscation" by News of the World executives who gave evidence to them.

The report said it was inconceivable that only a few people at the paper knew about the practice of illegally phone tapping public figures.

Earlier today, Yates told the home affairs select committee that in light of new material published last week in the New York Times, police were likely to interview Coulson, who now serves as Cameron's most senior aide, and "take stock after that".

During his evidence to the committee today, Yates gave the first indication of a concession that the Met's original phone-hacking inquiry four years ago could have been more thorough.

He said it may have been better if the officers had interviewed "the Neville person" – Neville Thurlbeck, the News of the World's chief reporter, who was named on correspondence relating to phone hacking.

Yates told MPs police were considering new material following the "very serious allegations" made last week by Hoare.

Yates was giving evidence the day after the Labour MP Tom Watson warned that British democracy risked becoming a "laughing stock" around the world unless allegations about phone hacking were fully investigated.

But he refused to be drawn on whether the criminal investigation was being reopened, telling MPs the suggestion of an ongoing live investigation was "a matter of semantics".

The hacking scandal blew up again last week after the New York Times published a lengthy article including the claim that Coulson freely discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques during his time as editor of the tabloid.

Coulson resigned as editor of the News of the World after its royal reporter and a private investigator were jailed.

But Hoare told the NYT that when he worked with Coulson at the Sun, he personally played recordings of hacked voicemail messages for him and that later, when he worked for him at the News of the World, he "continued to inform Coulson of his pursuits". Coulson "actively encouraged me to do it", Hoare said.

Yates said Hoare's claims represented new material, adding that police would see him "at some stage in the near future and consider what he has to say".

He said Scotland Yard's attempts to seek help from the New York Times had been rebuffed. The US paper had already indicated it was not prepared to help the police, citing journalistic privilege, he added.

The assistant commissioner told MPs colleagues had written to the NYT again to urge them to waive that privilege because of the "quite exceptional circumstances" surrounding the case, but admitted he was "not hopeful".

He refused to say who was on the list of people who may have had their phones hacked, but confirmed Lord Prescott was not among them.

MPs were told that being on a list did not mean someone's phone had been hacked. Yates told them the police only found evidence of crimes being committed in about 12 cases.

Watson, who in the Commons yesterday issued a point-by-point rebuttal of arguments by ministers and News International dismissing calls for a judicial inquiry, today urged Yates to look further than just Hoare's claims.

"John Yates has said that he'll investigate the new allegations made by Sean Hoare, but has steadfastly refused to investigate his strongest lead – the existence of an illegally hacked phone message provided by Glenn Mulcaire and transcribed by News of the World reporter Ross Hall," he said.

"If anything in this case is a smoking gun – establishing that Clive Goodman was not just a rogue reporter – it is this.

"The Met police continues its disdainful disinclination to actually investigate this case. The public and parliament expect answers. He should interview Ross Hall."

Yates had earlier indicated to the committee he felt interviewing Hall would make no difference to the inquiry.

• Andy Coulson
• News of the World phone-hacking scandal
• Newspapers & magazines
• Newspapers
• News of the World
• National newspapers
• David Cameron

Presenter hits out at racing driver Ben Collins, AKA the Stig, and says Top Gear is 'damaged but not out'

Top Gear co-host Jeremy Clarkson has said that the man who plays the Stig is "sacked" and admitted he was "hurt" that Ben Collins decided to unmask himself as the show's anonymous white-suited driver.

Clarkson said that "Top Gear is damaged but not out", adding that he has spent the last three weeks "doing nothing but work out what to do instead", after it emerged that Collins was planning to out himself as the Stig in his autobiography.

The BBC failed last week to have an injunction granted to stop Collins, the racing driver who has played the Stig since 2003, from publishing his book.

Clarkson said he felt "a bit hurt really". "It was such a shock. It was horrible actually because I liked him and he came round to my house and had drinks and all that time he was writing a book," he added, in a video interview published online today by Oxfordshire-based community news service WitneyTV.

"He's just decided he'd rather be ... put it this way he's history as far as we are concerned. He's sacked," said Clarkson, who was interviewed at a charity auction at Chipping Norton Lido.

"I've spent the last three weeks doing nothing but trying work out what out what an earth to do instead. You may remember a film called Wall Street in which Gordon Gekko said greed was good and greed works. It doesn't, if you're watching this children, greed is bad," he added.

Clarkson hinted that the Stig as a character may no longer continue on Top Gear, saying: "Trust me, we have many, many thousands of people queueing up to be whatever it is we create."

Collins is the second person to play the Stig who has revealed his identity. Previously another racing driver, Perry McCarthy, played a black-suited Stig but was replaced by Collins as the white Stig in 2003 after McCarthy also revealed his identity in a book.

When asked who might replace Collins, Clarkson said: "Richard can't drive and James is too slow. We'll get somebody, don't you worry. Top Gear is damaged but not out. I'd love to have [David] Cameron do it."

The prime minister is the local MP for Witney.

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• Jeremy Clarkson
• Top Gear
• Factual TV
• Television
• BBC

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Kommunikationsafdelingen hos Amagerforbrænding arbejder med at formidle de gode budskaber om, at der er god grøn energi i affald og at genbrug er en af vejene til et bedre miljø.

Kommunikationsafdelingen søger en ny kollega med erfaring ud i journalistisk formidling. Du bliver en del af et team bestående af kommunikationschefen og 3 medarbejdere.

Kommunikationsafdelingen leverer kommunikation, som understøtter direktionens strategier og arbejder på at formidle budskaberne faktuelt og engagerende. Vi benytter den platform, der egner sig til målgruppen og budskabet, og har brug for dig og dine kompetencer, når vi går i gang med at øge brugen af elektroniske medier, herunder elektroniske nyhedsbreve og vodcasts.

Arbejdsopgaverne er præget af stor produktion og mange ad hoc opgaver. Videndeling, samarbejde og sparring er afgørende for at kvalitetssikre vores produkter.

Dit primære ansvarsområde bliver driften af den eksterne kommunikation i form af nyhedsbreve, web, årsberetning og delvist også kontakt med pressen. I forhold til den interne kommunikation, vil du lægge nyheder på intranettet, samt skrive og være redaktør for vores medarbejderblad.

Du
Er sandsynligvis journalist eller cand.comm. og har solid journalistisk erfaring. Du har erfaring med både web og print, som du kan dokumentere. Du har viden om brugen af og praktisk erfaring med video/vodcast og er klar til at starte området op her hos os.

Du skriver med gennemslagskraft, kreativt, hurtigt og du har både respekt for modtageren og for afsenderen. Du er fagligt dygtig og kan dit journalistiske håndværk, og det er vigtigt for os, at du ønsker at lære vores virksomhed at kende, og at du evner og har lyst til at sætte dig ind i virksomhedens forskellige fagligheder og kompleksitet.

Som person er du udadvendt og tager aktivt del i arbejdsfællesskabet. Dit udgangspunkt er positivt og du ser flere muligheder end begrænsninger. Du løser dine opgaver fra idé til evaluering af resultatet og er selvkørende i processen, samtidig med at du ser det som et plus, at sparre og inddrage dine kolleger. Du hviler godt i dig selv og fokuserer på opgaverne og den faglige kvalitet. Du er fleksibel i forhold til små som store opgaver og trives med, at udviklingen tager sit udspring i det praktiske.

Du tilbydes
En dynamisk hverdag i en virksomhed med et højt fagligt niveau, hvor vi har et godt arbejdsmiljø og attraktive personalegoder. Din løn forhandles individuelt med udgangspunkt i din erfaring og kvalifikationer. 

Om rekrutteringen
Rekrutteringen sker i samarbejde med konsulentvirksomheden Promando A/S.
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Har du spørgsmål til stillingen, er du velkommen til at kontakte Birgitte Eilersen eller John Reynolds via mail mail@(if you can see this please update your browser)promando.dk eller på telefon +45 35 25 40 80.

Samtaler vil foregå i København. Send venligst din ansøgning og dit CV mærket 8460/KOM via dette link: http://www.promando.dk/ans/11908/
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Arbejdsopgaverne:

I Alzheimerforeningens landskontor i Hellerup er der et barselsvikariat ledigt som projektmedarbejder med følgende ansvar og arbejdsopgaver

• Indsamling og fundraising
• Udvikling af Alzheimerforeningens nye website – herunder administration af webshop
• Kommunikation til bidragsydere
• Andre projekt- og administrationsopgaver

Personen:
Stillingen som projektmedarbejder vil blive besat med en engageret og selvstændig person med viden, gå-på-mod og gennemslagskraft. Der vil blive lagt vægt på erfaring indenfor fundraising, kendskab til fundraisingredskaber og databasekommunikation, erhvervssamarbejde og opbygning af dynamiske websites. Desuden er det afgørende, at personen har mod på at være en del af det team, der skal gøre arbejdet for demente til en folkesag.

Løn- og ansættelsesvilkår:
Vi tilbyder en fuldtidsstilling i et lille men spændende og engageret sekretariat med fleksibel arbejdstid, og hvor der er plads både til ansvar og selvbestemmelse. Løn efter kvalifikationer.

Ansøgning og ansættelse:
Stillingens ønskes besat hurtigst muligt. Ansøgning med relevante bilag sendes til post@alzheimer.dk. Ansøgningsfrist er hurtigst muligt og senest den 22. september. Ansøgninger vil blive behandlet løbende.

Stillingsbeskrivelse kan downloades fra www.alzheimer.dk. Yderligere oplysninger: Direktør Nis Peter Nissen tlf.: 2120 1224.

Why should sex, alone among all forms of human interaction, be thought to spawn malignant magic when money changes hands?

Power corrupts. Even the high ethical standards of prostitutes would probably plunge down to near-politician levels if they wielded legal authority over their fellow citizens. Since politicos actually do, they turn the mighty power of the state not just on legitimate threats to the commonweal, but anything they find annoying or distasteful.

Which is why, if you visit the Craigslist website, you'll find the links to their "adult services" section gone, replaced by the word "censored". You can't blame Craigslist for caving under pressure, not when the attorneys general of 18 different states all threatened legal action at once. Craigslist might win if it countersued on free-speech grounds, but they can't afford the long, costly legal battles such victory would require.

"Adult" services, of course, is a euphemism for "sexual" services. Lawmakers hated Craigslist from the get-go because sex workers used it to advertise their services. Yet if you listen to politicians praise themselves now that the ads are gone, you won't hear much talk about banning activity between consenting adults. No, politicos prefer to invoke The Children. In a statement her office released Saturday, California congresswoman Jackie Speier blamed websites such as Craigslist for child prostitution. "We can't forget the victims, we can't rest easy. Child sex trafficking continues and lawmakers need to fight future machinations of internet-driven sites that peddle children."

No argument there: forcing children into prostitution is an utterly abhorrent crime. Forcing anybody into prostitution is, and when callous sociopaths turn innocent victims into sexual slaves for their own profit, it's undeniably good when police shut down these loathsome enterprises.

Yet when attorneys general started crusading against Craigslist, it wasn't kidnapping rapists they worried about, but adults who made money selling consensual services. In my own state of Connecticut, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (now a Senate candidate) has been on the Craigslist warpath since at least 2008. That March, his office put out a press release saying: "As a small step in response to my concerns, Craigslist now requires anyone posting a listing in the erotic services section to provide a phone number. This step, however, will hardly deter the prostitution problem on the site, and may indeed make it worse. Many of the most graphic solicitations already include a telephone number to enable prospective patrons of their services to contact them."

But now it's about the children. Why do so many politicos cling to the fiction that the best way to stop coerced sex acts is to criminalise consensual ones? Maybe that's an unfair question; it's not just lawmakers who claim this. Anytime you suggest legalised prostitution might be better than the dangerous, illegal status quo, opponents always raise the spectre of sexual slavery.

And it's not only prostitutes whose opponents blur the line between coercion and consent; any sex-themed work inspires such dishonesty. I've faced it personally: in my university days I worked as a stripper and now, years later, occasionally wax nostalgic about it on websites like this. Without fail, whenever I write on the theme "Ich bin ein ex-go go dancer," a subset of the commentariat insists I was exploited, whether I knew it or not. Contributed to the oppression of others. And what about enslaved women forced to become strippers, huh?

The protests are exponentially more heated when ex-prostitutes write to defend their trade. Too many otherwise sensible people believe sex, alone among all forms of human interaction, spawns some malignant magic whenever money changes hands. It's still perfectly legal to search for sex on Craigslist; you just can't exchange cash for it.

In other news from last week, prosecutors in Maricopa County, Arizona, decided there is insufficient evidence to charge prison guards over the May 2009 death of inmate Marcia Powell, who was serving a 27-month sentence for prostitution when officials locked her in an outdoor cage under the 107-degree desert sun for four hours. She died in hospital later that evening. Guards deny allegations they refused her requests for water; witnesses say otherwise, and the autopsy shows Powell died of complications from heat exposure, and had no signs of hydration. Her corpse had a core temperature of 108 degrees, plus burns and blisters all over her body, which is not to say her captors did anything criminal. At least she wasn't selling herself on some filthy street corner or sleazy website, right? Ask anyone who supports the Craigslist crackdown: they'll tell you laws against prostitution are needed to protect women like Powell from dangerous and degrading circumstances.

How would America be different if consensual prostitution were legal? On the plus side, Marcia Powell probably wouldn't have broiled to death. As a minus, she would have continued exchanging sex for money, and the Craigslist brouhaha is merely the latest anecdote showing how lawmakers utterly abhor people who do that. America is determined to knock out prostitution, and our legal system never pulls its punches.

• Craigslist
• Internet
• Advertising
• Prostitution
• United States

SOS Børnebyerne har de senere år oplevet en konstant tilgang af nye faddere, bidragydere og virksomheder. Vi har nu over 80 projekter over hele verden og masser af gode historier at fortælle. I vores kommunikationsafdeling søger vi en webredaktør, der kan sikre, at vi bedst muligt når vores mål gennem webkommunikation. Vi har netop fået en ny hjemmeside, som skal videreudvikles, og vi har planer om at tilbyde vores støtter endnu bedre service og fortællinger via nettet.

Dine arbejdsopgaver er i hovedtræk:

• I tæt samarbejde med de øvrige kolleger, herunder marketingafdelingen og webkoordinatoren, at udvikle hjemmesiden, så den bedst muligt understøtter SOS Børnebyernes mål og kampagner
• I hverdagen er du ansvarlig for, at de besøgende oplever en dynamisk, velfungerende hjemmeside
• At udvikle SOS Børnebyernes webstrategi, både for hjemmesiden, e-nyhedsbrev og sociale medier
• Skrive, redigere, lægge tekst, fotos og levende billeder på nettet, herunder sikre, at tekster og indhold er søgemaskineoptimeret
• At tage initiativ til forbedringer, følge arbejdet til dørs og evaluere resultaterne
• Ansvar for et mindre hjemmesidebudget

Du skal påregne cirka 10 rejsedage om året.

Om dig

Du kommer sandsynligvis fra et lignende job og har nogle år bag dig på arbejdsmarkedet. Du har sikkert en kommunikationsfaglig baggrund, og er i stand til at skrive hurtigt og spændende til web, men du har også en solid indsigt i de tekniske aspekter af webkommunikation. Du motiveres af at skabe den bedst mulige hjemmeside og af at følge resultaterne af din indsats. Du er udadvendt og ikke bange for at binde an med projektledelse. Du er derudover en udpræget holdspiller og er god til at kommunikere med dine kolleger, men arbejder også godt alene. Det er naturligt for dig at opbygge netværk i det internationale miljø, i branchen og blandt vores leverandører. Du har teknisk forståelse og er ikke bange for selv at skrive simpel html i ny og næ.

Kvalifikationer

• Du er en erfaren webkommunikatør, både når det gælder formidling og teknik
• Du har flair for at få hjemmesiden til at se godt ud, og du kommunikerer godt med programmører
• Du er sikker bruger af CMS (gerne MOSS), Photoshop og sociale medier
• Du har styr på SEO, SEM og kender til opfølgningsværktøjer
• Du er sprogligt stærk, skriftligt og mundtligt, både på dansk og engelsk
• Gerne journalistisk erfaring med kritisk sans og blik for den gode historie
• Du har sandsynligvis erfaring med web-tv og levende billeder på nettet
• Gerne erfaring fra en NGO og med udviklingsarbejde i den tredje verden

Om os

SOS Børnebyerne har kontor på Vesterbro i København. Vi er en dynamisk arbejdsplads, hvor du får stor indflydelse på dit eget arbejde i en meningsfuld hverdag med international berøringsflade. Vi værdsætter et uformelt, positivt og engageret arbejdsklima, og vi arbejder teambaseret. Du bliver en del af kommunikationsafdelingen med tre medarbejdere. Løn iht. overenskomst mellem SOS Børnebyerne og AC-organisationerne repræsenteret ved Dansk Magisterforening. Mulighed for personligt tillæg. 37 timers arbejdsuge inkl. frokost.

Ansættelse

Snarest, og senest 1. november 2010

Deadline

12. september 2010 kl. 12 per mail til job@sosbornebyerne.dk. Skriv ”Webredaktør” i emnefeltet.

Vil du vide mere

Kontakt kommunikationschef Line Grove Hermansen på telefon 20 14 44 30. Du kan læse mere om SOS Børnebyerne på www.sosbornebyerne.dk

Morten Løkkegaard-rapporten, som den bliver kaldt, er tirsdag middag blevet stemt igennem Europa-Parlamentet.

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