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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, …

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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 -

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 - Feature

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

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Media Movers: Andrew Picken, Brian Hossack, etc

WELCOME to Media Movers, reporting the latest moves within the Scottish media, including promotions and

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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

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Wanted: Senior reporter

THE East Lothian Courier is seeking a senior reporter, as advertised here and repeated on

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Wanted: Press officer

GLASGOW 2014 is seeking a press officer, as advertised here and repeated on

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