The vanity search of the journalist is dead! Long live Journalisted!

This website automatically keeps track of journalists whose bylines appear on 14 major news websites in the UK, including the BBC. Its stated aim is:

... To make it easier for the public to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is intended to make the news media more transparent and accountable on behalf of the public. It allows you to build up your own tailored list of journalists whose views you respect and trust.

It also gives journalists their very own page with all their articles on it, even counting the average number of words they write. Sod the public, from a journalist's point of view this is really rather nice indeed. Discovering I had my own page on the site was a nice little thrill, as was noticing that people can actually sign up to be emailed any new articles I write, or subscribe to an RSS feed. Crikey, there's nowt so good as free publicity!

If for some God-unknown reason your favourite journalist is not me, you can have a rummage for them on this page. All the people who have written for BBC News are listed here - some 750-plus, apparently. My six articles trump Jeremy Paxman's lone listed feature, Sir Matthew Pinsent's two contributions and Martha Kearney's five, but I'm still some way off Eddie Mair's 525. (It's not fair - people with blogs score far too highly.)