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Digital March 16 2010 11:45

Awards Shortlisting for Caledonian Mercury

Less than two months since its launch, a Scottish online news service has been shortlisted for a prize at awards celebrating the best of newspaper production. The Caledonian Mercury has...

Digital March 15 2010 08:10

Blogging The Political - Book Review, by Andrew Tibbs

There’s no doubt that social media is now accepted as part of the norm on the political landscape, and for many it’s an essential means of expression, with participation by not only...

Digital March 10 2010 08:58

Public Journalism 2.0 - Book Review, by Andrew Tibbs

Public Journalism 2.0 is a collection of essays which seeks to look at the evolution, development and employment of citizen journalism, a subject area which is becoming hugely important (if it...

Digital February 25 2010 06:51

Advertising Body Predicts Sales Surge from Broadband Push

When the near five per cent of people in the UK who still have dial-up internet convert to broadband, an estimated extra £1.4 billion could be generated within a year by purchases made via...

Digital February 24 2010 16:36

STV Launches Mobile iPhone App

STV's news output is expected to be available via an application on the iPhone and iPod Touch from next month. Comprising text and moving images, the application is being announced today...

Digital February 18 2010 12:32

DC Thomson Receives Provisional Approval to Buy Friends Reunited

The publisher of the Sunday Post newspaper has received a boost from UK competition authorities in its bid to buy one of the original social networking websites, Friends Reunited. DC Thomson...

Digital February 16 2010 15:34

Growth of Scotland's Digital Industry the Aim of New Service

Scotland's digital media industry has a new champion in the shape of a support service and network hoping to help companies develop new products and secure new business. Interactive...

Digital February 11 2010 08:19

McAlpine Scoops Scottish Media Blog Award

The features editor at The Sunday Times Scotland has had her personal blog recognised as among the best in the country. Joan McAlpine's Go Lassie Go  finished top in the...

Digital February 04 2010 15:45

Status Magazine Launch Symbol of Glossy Digital Publishing in Scotland

Rugby's Six Nations leads the editorial of a new, high-quality digital magazine just launched by a former presenter on a new defunct digital TV channel dedicated to Rangers football cub. ...

Digital February 02 2010 18:07

Video-making Training Places up for Grabs

Training places on courses designed to introduce journalists on how to make video packages, including for the web, are being offered - for free - by the National Union of Journalists. As a...

Digital January 26 2010 10:12

A Whole Newsnight Scotland Devoted to Launch of Caledonian Mercury

The prospects for Scotland's new online 'newspaper', Caledonian Mercury - launched yesterday - were the subject of extensive debate on last night's Newsnight Scotland , on BBC...

Digital January 25 2010 17:22

Day One of Caledonian Mercury Attracts Almost 30,000 Unique Visitors

Day one of a new online newspaper for Scotland has attracted - as of 5pm - almost 30,000 unique visitors. Caledonian Mercury was launched earlier today, to a fanfare of media coverage,...

Digital January 25 2010 06:56

Caledonian Mercury Takes its Place on the Virtual Newsstand

The former editor of scotsman.com, Stewart Kirkpatrick, has proven as good as his word: he has launched a newspaper, as promised in his allmediascotland.com blog of three weeks ago.  But...

Digital January 22 2010 14:42

Roper Unveiled as STV's Digital News Editor

STV has unveiled a recent former senior member of staff at The Herald as its digital news editor. Until his appointment earlier this month by STV, Matt Roper was group deputy news editor at the...

Digital January 19 2010 10:59

Daily Record Web Editor Among All-star Cast Speaking at Social Media Dinner

The editor of the Daily Record's website is among three speakers lined up to speak at a dinner in Glasgow for people working in the realm of social media. Iain Hepburn - who was chosen as...
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Derek Masterton

Derek Masterton was an assistant news editor at ...

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TGO

TGO (The Great Outdoors) is the UK-wide, ...

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Liz Hodgkinson

Whatever is happening to freelance fees? When I ...

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The Purcell Story

Ken Symon is among a number of commentators to ...

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The Jon Venables Case

Former Sun editor, Kelvin MacKenzie, was at his ...

TOP CONTACT

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