A FORMER reporter on The Press and Journal newspaper is among 50 journalists, UK-wide, to have passed exams making them eligible to be appointed as senior reporters.
Ann-Marie Parry passed the National Qualification in Journalism, operated by the National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Two weeks ago, she joined the Inverurie-based constituency office of First Minister, Alex Salmond – as a parliamentary assistant.
Read more, here.
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CONFIRMED: the details of the second TV debate between Alistair Darling and Alex Salmond, representing either side of the Scots independence argument.
Following their first TV debate – last week on STV – the pair will be going head-to-head on BBC One Scotland, from 2030 – 2200 hours, a week on Monday.
For more information, go here, on the BBC Scotland media centre website.
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BEING issued this very moment: the latest circulation figures for several dozen magazines in the UK, including ones produced in Scotland.
More will be revealed in tomorrow’s Noon Briefing.
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BEGINS pressgazette.co.uk: “Questions have been raised over whether tabloid reporting of the death of [actor] Robin Williams breached media guidelines aimed at preventing reports from inspiring copycat suicides.”
Read more, here.
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WORTH a read: an interview with investigative reporter, Nick Davies, arguably best known for uncovering the hacking of telephones by journalists.
It was published last week and penned by William Turvill.
Read it, here.
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WIDELY reported: yesterday’s early morning news bulletin on BBC Scotland had an unexpected visitor, in the shape of a spider crawling across the camera lens, in pursuit of its breakfast.
Take a look, here.
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BEGINS the website, holdthefrontpage: “Reporters in Scotland may be stopped from accessing certain information relating to court cases, the country’s top judge has warned.”
Read more here and also here, on allmediascotland.com.
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INTERESTING? Begins this story (from last month, here) on the website of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising: “The IPA has today welcomed the second phase of Operation Creative which involves the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit at the City of London Police replacing advertising on copyright-infringing websites with official force banners, warning the user that the site is currently under criminal investigation.”
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