Your Noon Briefing: Scottish Student Journalism Awards, regional and local TV snapshot, etc

THE cream of Scottish student journalism is to be celebrated at the end of this money as the winners of the Scottish Student Journalism Awards 2015 are announced.

Hosting the event – in Glasgow on the 28th – will be BBC Scotland’s’s Jane Lewis, with acclaimed author, Christopher Brookmyre, the guest speaker.

Read more, here.

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PAULINE Kelly – acting director of Amnesty International Scotland – marks World Press Freedom Day, held on Sunday, by writing in The Scotsman.

She begins: “Syria continues to be the most dangerous country in the world for journalists – at least 80 have lost their lives reporting on the civil war since it began in 2011.”

Read more, here.

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THE Scotsman’s Scott Reid begins (here): “Communications practice, [Aberdeen-based] Fifth Ring is taking its expertise in the energy industry into the South American market after striking a new ‘strategic ­alliance’.”

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A SNAPSHOT of regional and local television in the UK – including, of course, in Scotland – has been published by the Council of Europe.

The document includes not just an overview of the TV landscape of the UK but details of viewing figures, etc.

Read more, here.

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