THE publisher of The Herald, Sunday Herald, The National and the Evening Times newspapers has reportedly enjoyed a 26 per cent rise in profits for its most recent financial year.
Wrote The Herald’s Greig Cameron, on Saturday: “Accounts being filed at Companies House by [Newsquest (Herald & Times)] the publisher of The Herald, show flat turnover of £53.75 million for the 52 weeks to December 28, 2014.
“However, pre-tax profits increased from £9.2m to £11.6m helped by a reduction in operating expenses from £35.4m to £33.3m.
“The business said it had benefited from the interest generated by the independence referendum and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the website, radiotoday.co.uk: “One Capital Scotland listener has won a Fiat 500 car, holiday to Paris, VIP tickets to see Jason Derulo and a night out.
“The 23 year-old was the last one standing in the It’s About Who competition on air sponsored by car dealer Arnold Clark.
“After three weeks of being on air every morning answering questions, competing against 14 other contestants, Colette Scullion reached the final this morning. She pipped fellow finalist, Jan Tyler, to the post to win the biggest prize the station has ever given away.”
Read more, here.
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A REPORTER is being sought by the Clyde & Forth Press titles, Border Telegraph and Peeblesshire News.
The vacancy is being advertised on the allmediascotland media jobs board, here.
Please do mention the site when responding to job adverts you see on it.
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BEGINS the Sunday Herald: “The producer of the Hollywood blockbuster, Rob Roy, claims BBC Scotland is ripping him off with plans to make a documentary series about Scottish football based on his original idea.”
Read more, here.
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AND again, the Sunday Herald, this time starting: “This was supposed to be the rally that marked the first anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum. And, as Scotland’s only newspaper to support Scottish independence last year, we intended to cover [Saturday’s] Hope Over Fear (HOF) rally – and cover it well despite the event being refused permission from Glasgow City Council.
“The irony was that, as a pro-independence newspaper, we were prevented from covering this pro-independence rally freely when I [Karin Goodwin], as a reporter, and the Sunday Herald photographer, Stewart Attwood, were both turned away from the event’s ‘official’ enclosure. Apparently, our presence was not welcome.”
And the report continues, further on: “Among an atmosphere of suspicion and fear of media bias, outlets including the BBC, the Sunday Herald, international agency Agence France Presse (AFP), Scottish picture agency Deadline and several freelance photographers were prevented from entering or asked to leave a barricaded enclosure set up around the stage by organisers.”
Read more, here.
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AND yet again in the Sunday Herald, this time journalist, Paul Hutcheon, continues his long-running investigation into whether the media and their sources have been spied on, by the police – as he reports, here.
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A FUNDRAISER – featuring the likes of well-known musicians, Ricky Ross and Karine Polwart – is being staged next month, on behalf of the web magazine, Bella Caledonia.
Ross, arguably best known as the lead singer of Scots band, Deacon Blue, is quoted – here – as saying: “Over the last few years, Bella Caledonia have consistently been an alternative voice to the Scottish mainstream media.”
Read more, here, and book tickets for the event, in Glasgow, on October 21.
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FORMER First Minister, now MP, Alex Salmond revisits the BBC’s coverage of last year’s Scottish independence referendum – in an interview with the English language news TV channel, Russia Today – here (around the four-minute mark).
And the interview were previewed by The Scotsman, on Saturday, here.
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