Your Noon Briefing: New business supplement for P&J, special advisers, etc

THE first issue of a business supplement, accompanying The Press and Journal newspaper, was launched yesterday.

Says The P&J, thebusiness “will complement the newspaper’s other monthly business-focused supplement, Energy”.

Editor of thebusiness is Ryan Crighton. It will be published monthly.

Read more, here.

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SAYS a media announcement: “Aberdeen-based AVC Media has won a mid six-figure contract with an international oil firm.

“The media agency was awarded the three-year deal with GDF SUEZ E&P UK to install and manage audio visual and conferencing equipment into the oil company’s new Aberdeen office on North Esplanade West.”

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A TRAINEE reporter is being sought by Romanes Media Group, to work mainly on the Central Fife Times and also the Dunfermline Press. It is advertised here, on allmediascotland.com, and repeated on twitter.com/allmediajobs.

Also, Muckle Media, winner of the 2013 CIPR Scotland Outstanding Small Consultancy award, is recruiting a PR and social media account manager, senior account manager or account director – as advertised here.

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IN The Herald newspaper today, pics from business event, the Aberdeen-Stavanger Gateway, organised by Granite PR.

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REPORT theatre? Interested in it? Then check out our new twitter.com/allTheatrePR.

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WRITES former Scotsman editor, John McGurk: “Secretive briefings or tip-offs to journalists from special advisers or even ministers doing the dirty on their colleagues, never mind their political opponents, are common place.”

McGurk considers the role of the special adviser in the ongoing saga that is the pressure on journalist-turned-Scottish Government special adviser, Campbell Gunn.

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AN annual search to recognise 30 of the most talented people, aged under 30 and working in UK radio, has begun.

The search is being run by the Radio Academy.

Read more, here.

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