A CALL for entries has been issued by the organisers of the Franco-Scottish Press Awards.
Wanted are print articles about France, published by the Scottish media. There are four subject categories and entries are required by the seventh of next month, with the winners chosen at an awards ceremony dinner in Edinburgh on the evening of February 26.
For more information, read here.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Aberdeen-based PR agency, Tricker PR; it has been shortlisted in an awards competition celebrating the best of travel marketing.
Its ‘Save Our Dram’ campaign for the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival has earned it a nomination in The Travel Marketing Awards 2014.
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THE deadline is looming for entries to a marketing competition being run by The Drum media and marketing magazine.
Entries for The Drum’s Marketing Awards are required by Friday.
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CHECK out our latest Daily Feature – The Media in Figures – for the latest circulation figures for national newspapers in Scotland.
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GLASGOW’S book festival, Aye Write!, is to hold a conference for young journalists from around the world during the Commonwealth Games – reports The Herald.
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YOU busy? If working in the Scottish media and tweeting about what you’re doing, work-wise, then feel free to add #scotsmedia247 to it.
Insodoing, you’ll be adding to the ongoing twitter conversation that is the Scots media community at work.
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A RADIO station dedicated to reporting sport across Central Scotland is scheduled to launch on the first of next month.
It had been thought Eklipse Sports Radio might be launching during Autumn last year. The station’s website has a clock, counting down to the launch.
It is being reported that Eklipse will be soon announcing its full schedule and presenter line-up.
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THE head of newspapers and magazines distributors, Menzies Distribution, is reportedly to step down, ‘by mutual agreement’.
Writes Simon Bain, in the Sunday Herald, David McIntosh has been with the company for 25 years.
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HAVE several media outlets found themselves contravening Scots law – albeit inadvertantly – in their reporting of the tragic story of the missing toddler, Mikaeel Kular?
A report on Wikinews fears they might have been “been caught out by Scottish contempt of court law”.
Meanwhile, The Herald reports today that police have vowed to investigate “potentially illegal online comments” concerning the death of the three year-old.
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A RIGHT-to-die storyline that will be played out this evening on TV soap, Coronation Street, is the latest in several big social issues explored by soaps these last few years – reflects Emma Cowing in yesterday’s Scotland on Sunday newspaper.
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NOT everyone, inevitably, is happy with another special advisor joining the Scottish Government, reports The Herald today.
Writes Michael Settle, SNP head of communications, Ross Ingebrigtsen, is to become a record 14th ‘spad’, as he is about to join the Government’s comms department.
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