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BBC Scotland and STV further gear up for next year’s referendum, the BBC to the tune of £5 million
BBC Scotland is to spend an additional £5 million on its coverage of next year’s referendum on Scotland’s constitutional future. The announcement – made jointly by the new BBC director-general, Tony Hall, and BBC Scotland director, …
New app launches, for The Herald and Sunday Herald
THE Herald newspaper and its Sunday sister title, the Sunday Herald, have launched an app for iPhone and Android devices. The app - also available for the iPad -
Neil Braidwood: The Scots Magazine
SOMETHING big happened recently in Scottish publishing. One of the oldest publications in the world, The Scots Magazine, got a makeover. One of the magazine’s distinctive features was its yellow
Media Broth: Feel free, do tuck in
FULL marks for perseverance. Last week, the BBC's own governing body, the BBC Trust, upheld a complaint by a BBC Radio Scotland listener, Liam Robertson, about a news
Rutherford and Hamburgh named winners at Regional Press Awards
THE Scotsman Publications' photographer, Ian Rutherford, has been named a winner at a media awards ceremony celebrating the best of the regional Press. Ian Rutherford has taken the Daily/Sunday Photographer
Craig McGill: Matt Bendoris and his first crime novel
CHIEF features writer on The Scottish Sun, Matt Bendoris has released his first crime novel, Killing with Confidence, a £2.99 ebook on Amazon with the paperback edition to
SoS and P&J enjoy readership hikes, says latest survey
AN UK-wide survey of people's reading habits, concerning newspapers and magazines, has revealed Scots titles, Scotland on Sunday and The Press and Journal have both enjoyed hikes in
Peter John Meiklem: The Conversation’s mix of ‘academic rigour’ and ‘journalistic flair’
FRESH in the door to work in the Glasgow Caledonian University communications office, I met with a senior health Professor to talk about his experience of working with
My Media Day: Alan Burrows, Press and media manager, Motherwell FC
ALAN Burrows has been Press and media manager for Motherwell Football Club since September 2007. He actually studied hospitality after leaving school in 2000 and worked in that industry
Media Movers: Andrew Picken, Brian Hossack, etc
WELCOME to Media Movers, reporting the latest moves within the Scottish media, including promotions and
Craig McGill: Cutting to the chase
I DON'T recall Matt Bendoris writing about death by a thousand cuts, in his first novel, Killing With Confidence. But The Scottish Sun feature writer has sparked the detective in
Shortlist announced for Scottish Student Journalism Awards
THE cream of Scottish student journalism is to be celebrated next week, and the shortlisted entries, across nine categories, has just been announced. The Scottish Student Journalism Awards are
Wanted: Senior reporter
THE East Lothian Courier is seeking a senior reporter, as advertised here and repeated on
Bill Heaney: The Churches and the media
ARCHBISHOP Philip Tartaglia appears to be one of the few churchmen in Scotland who realises there is no point in engaging in futile hostilities with the Press. His message
My Media Day: Andrew Southwick, freelance reporter and editor of www.theawayend.net
ANDREW Southwick is a freelance reporter, focusing mainly on sport, and has edited his own website, theawayend.net, for the last four years. It was launched while Andrew was an university
The Media in Figures: Average UK-wide sales of national daily and Sunday newspapers
THE UK sales figures for newspapers between November last year and last month saw the Daily Record sell an average 254,102 copies, down 9.25 per cent on the
The Times maintains its positive sales-in-Scotland trend
THE Times newspaper has continued to buck the trend of falling year-on-year newspaper sales by registering a second, successive monthly increase. But, says the Audit Bureau of Circulation, while
Nick Freer: Using the media to capture attention in the digital age
AS the owner of a small public relations consultancy, I was pleased to read recently that we are in “a golden moment for entrepreneurship in the UK”. That quote
Price increase for Saturday edition of the Daily Record
THE Saturday edition of the Daily Record is to increase - from tomorrow - by 5p, to 75p. And the increase has been welcomed by the National Federation of































