BEGINS the website, radiotoday.co.uk: “Rod Webster, a pioneering Scottish local radio executive who delivered high ratings, major awards and commercial success at a string of stations, has died at the age of 69.
“Rod, who died shortly before Christmas, helped set up Moray Firth Radio and was the founding managing director at Radio Borders. He also served as MD at Northsound and as head of training for Scottish Radio Holdings.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the STV website: “Race marshals, spectators and the media face tighter controls at motor sport rallies in Scotland following a spate of deaths in recent years.
“Three spectators died at the Jim Clark Rally last May and in 2013 a spectator died and a child was injured at the Highland Snowman Rally, prompting a safety review into the sport.”
Read more, here.
Coverage of the story on the website of The Daily Telegraph can be found, here.
Read the review, here.
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STARTS the media and marketing magazine, The Drum: “Online and catalogue fashion retailer JD Williams has had its latest collection designed by brand ambassador, [Scot] Lorraine Kelly.
“The TV presenter’s first design collection and her ‘Lorraine Loves’ edit, both specifically targeted at females aged 50 years-old and over, will form part of JD Williams’ spring collection, and will retail from £29 to £79.”
Read more, here.
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AND The Drum also reports: “Regional publisher [of The Herald, Sunday Herald, etc] Newsquest wants to offload its media agency sales offering to independent media sales house, Mediaforce.
“The business has started consultations with its sales staff regarding the proposal to outsource its sales function. It would see all Newsquest agency sales members switch to Mediaforce under TUPE regulations.”
Read more, here.
And also here, on the website, holdthefrontpage.
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THE funeral of the sportswriter, Ian Wood – former Scotsman sports editor and famed golf writer – has been set for Monday.
It is taking place at Mortonhall Crematorium, in Edinburgh, at 11am.
The Scotsman today carries details.
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FAKE twitter followers? The Herald today publishes a league table of twitter accounts estimated to comprise at least five per cent ‘fake followers’, including set up by ‘scammers’ who target celebrity names.
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THE new Scotland editor of The Times is to take up his post on the 19th of this month.
Les Snowdon leaves the Daily Mail – where he is sports editor – on Friday.
He is, among other things, a former editor of Scotland on Sunday, and is succeeding Angus Macleod, whose death, aged 63, in October was noted, here, on allmediascotland.com.
The website, pressgazette.co.uk, reports (here) that Snowdon’s successor at the Daily Mail is Alex Kay-Jelski.
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BEGINS The Herald sports supplement today: “Tommy Wright, the St Johnstone [Football Club] manager, last night accused the [Scottish Football Association] of subjecting his team to ‘trial by [BBC Scotland programme] Sportscene’ after James McFadden became the third member of his squad to fall foul of recently-installed SFA Compliance Officer, Tony McGlennan.”
Read more, here.
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