THE head of newspapers publisher, Trinity Mirror’s Scottish operation has been named among the top 100 power brokers in Scotland.
Allan Rennie – at Media Scotland, which publishes, among other titles, the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail – has been placed at No.50 in The Herald’s ‘Scotland’s Power [100]’, which accompanied yesterday’s edition of the paper.
Elsewhere, Pete Cashmere – the person behind the tech, digital media, etc website, Mashable, was placed at No.26, while BBC Scotland director, Ken MacQuarrie, was at No. 59.
Also on the list: STV boss, Rob Woodward (No.87), Wings Over Scotland blogger, Stuart Campbell (No.80) and food journalist and campaigner, Joanna Blythman (No.99).
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AND in the annual Media 100, published by The Guardian (again, yesterday), there was representation from Scots, Adam Crozier (head of ITV, No.16), Armando Iannucci (writer, director, producer, No.39), Laura Kuenssberg (BBC political editor, No.54) and Steven Moffat (writer and exec producer, No.76).
Read more, here.
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THE current Scottish Student Journalist of the Year has been named a winner at UK-wide awards run by the National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Cat Cochrane has taken the Student Feature title at the NCTJ Excellence Awards – as reported, here, by pressgazette.co.uk.
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AN advert featuring Glasgow has been chosen Ad of the Week by The Drum media and marketing magazine.
Says the mag – which is UK-wide and headquartered in Glasgow: “Glasgow City Marketing Bureau’s (GCMB) colourful Christmas spot is our ad of the week.
“This animation, produced by Maguires, is based on a series of intricate, hand-drawn illustrations of the city’s landmarks and icons – including George Square and the Style Mile – by renowned Glasgow artist, Adrian McMurchie.
“The film was brought to life by Glaswegian Bafta-winning visual artist James Houston.”
Check out the ad, here.
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BEGINS an announcement from STV: “STV Productions, one of the UK’s leading content businesses, has appointed Peter Collins as executive producer (factual), to further strengthen its successful multi-genre team.
“The announcement follows STV Productions’ appointment of Dan Korn as creative director earlier this year, with focus on specialist factual and popular factual series and specials.”
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BEGINS The Herald: “BBC Alba should extend its remit to make programmes in the Scots language, a former leader of the SNP has urged.
“Gordon Wilson said having a Gaelic language channel but no broadcasting in Scots was a ‘cultural flaw’.”
Read more, here.
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AND announces The Herald this morning, its sports coverage is to appear as a separate tabloid only on a Saturday and Monday; otherwise, sport will be be found on the back pages of its main section.
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