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Your Noon Briefing: Spying on sources, BBC Charter review, etc
November 26, 2015
WIDELY reported, not least by the Sunday Herald’s Paul Hutcheon, who has been investigating the…
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Your Noon Briefing: Two Scots agencies among advertising awards winners, Hugo Rifkind, etcNovember 25, 2015
TWO Scots comms agencies have been named among the prizewinners at a competition celebrating the...
Your Noon Briefing: Rugby World Cup, Press Gazette’s 50th birthday, etcNovember 24, 2015
BEGINS the website operated by Scottish Rugby: “Scotland’s Rugby World Cup quarter-final showdown with Australia...
Your Noon Briefing: The National’s first birthday, Andrew Neil, etcNovember 23, 2015
SCOTLAND’S pro-independence daily newspaper, The National, is celebrating its first birthday tomorrow with – say its publishers – “a special...
Your Noon Briefing: Johnston Press, news appointment at STV, etcNovember 20, 2015
BEGINS the BBC: “Shares in Johnston Press [publisher of, among many other newspaper titles, The...
Your Noon Briefing: Sarah Smith named Scotland editor, marketing competition invite, etcNovember 19, 2015
THE well-known Scots broadcaster, Sarah Smith, has been named Scotland editor at the BBC. Says...
Your Noon Briefing: David Maddox, Citypress Edinburgh, etcNovember 18, 2015
THE political correspondent at The Scotsman is leaving, to join the Daily Express. David Maddox...
Your Noon Briefing: The Buteman editorial, Coane to present to creative industries inquiry, etcNovember 17, 2015
BEGINS the trade website, holdthefrontpage.co.uk: “A weekly editor has hit back at ‘narrow-minded bigotry’ over...
Your Noon Briefing: Paris massacres, local radio, etcNovember 16, 2015
AMONG the widespread media coverage of the terrible events in Paris on Friday evening, the...
Your Noon Briefing: Scottish Six, Celtic Media Festival, etcNovember 13, 2015
BEGINS Severin Carrell, in the Guardian: “BBC executives are pressing for the Corporation to commission a...
Your Noon Briefing: Online Media Awards, Freedom of Information, etcNovember 12, 2015
BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “The prevalence of ad blocking is showing no...
Your Noon Briefing: BBC Store, newspaper circulations, etcNovember 11, 2015
BEGINS The Independent: “Viewers can buy permanent downloads of Sherlock, as well as rarities from...
Your Noon Briefing: BBC Charter review latest, Radio Production Awards, etcNovember 10, 2015
BEGINS an announcement from the BBC’s governing body: “The BBC Trust has [yesterday] launched the...
Your Noon Briefing: Backpage Press, Hawick News, etcNovember 9, 2015
BEGINS The Herald: “A publishing company has raised more than £30,000 through a crowdfunding drive...
Your Noon Briefing: New owners at Dunoon Observer, STV cameras to return to court case, etcNovember 6, 2015
BEGINS an announcement issued today: “The Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard has new owners. “The...
Your Noon Briefing: Herald spying splash, Scots magazine awards, etcNovember 5, 2015
THE Sunday Herald journalist, Paul Hutcheon, continues today – in sister title, The Herald –...
Your Noon Briefing: Wyvex Media appointments, The Ferret, etcNovember 4, 2015
THE publisher of a number of local newspapers and magazines across Scotland, including The Oban Times...
Your Noon Briefing: Scotland’s creative industries, Hugh Dan MacLennan, etcNovember 3, 2015
BEGINS a Scottish Government announcement: “The Culture Secretary has called on the UK Government to...
Your Noon Briefing: Dunoon Observer, Eleanor Bryans, etcNovember 2, 2015
WRITES Georgia Love, under the headline, End of Era, on the front page of the Dunoon...
Your Noon Briefing: Board appointment at STV, ad blocking and newspaper websites, etcOctober 30, 2015
THERE has been a new appointment to the board of STV Group plc. Says STV:...
