All posts in Bill Heaney

In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Universities need print heavyweights to balance perception of bias towards broadcasting and digital
November 24, 2010

THE news that Blair Jenkins, chair of the Scottish Broadcasting Commission and a former head...

In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Is too much sport killing our newspapers?
October 29, 2010

FAR too much space in our newspapers is allocated to sport – and to football...

In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Isn’t it time the ‘alcohol question’ was shown the ‘red card’?
September 24, 2010

NOW that the minimum price per unit proposal for alcohol has been kicked into touch,...

In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Our weekly newspapers – time someone shouted ‘stop’
August 31, 2010

READ them and weep. The circulation figures for Scotland’s weekly newspapers are so bad I...

In my opinion: Bill Heaney: Religion could be the saving of Scotland’s newspapers
July 5, 2010

NEWSPAPERS, which are increasingly threatened with closure through loss of circulation and advertising, could find...

In my opinion: Bill Heaney: Why journalists need to get out more
June 25, 2010

NEW tricks – such as surfing the internet – are not the answer to the...

In my opinion: Bill Heaney: More on the IFNCs
March 31, 2010

HELLO, good evening and welcome to the least-watched television news programme in Scotland. This will...

In my opinion: Bill Heaney: Public notices in newspapers
March 22, 2010

THE decision by the Scottish Government to ‘put to bed’ their proposed legislation freeing local...

In my opinion: Bill Heaney: Compromise needed to avert newspaper industry crisis
February 2, 2010

MOST politicians are scared stiff of newspapers. That is one of the reasons why so...

In my opinion: Bill Heaney: Why public notices need to stay in newspapers, not migrate to the internet
December 19, 2009

WHEN I worked for First Minister, Henry McLeish, it was my job to get weekly...