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A STORY about a father renewing a childhood friendship, after a gap of 50 years, has earned its author the title, Scottish Student Journalist of the Year. The article

LAST week, just after News at Ten on Thursday, television viewers watching ITV Border were treated to a screening of an episode of the new sitcom, Vicious. At exactly

IT'S amazing, the people you bump into in a hotel elevator. The Edinburgh-based newspaper designer, Ally Palmer - part of the Palmer Watson partnership - was in Moscow last

SHOPS in Stornoway, in the Outer Hebrides, should be receiving, just about now, copies of the town's new-look newspaper, which has today gone from broadsheet to compact. Says the

READERSHIP in Scotland of the print edition of the bite-size Independent newspaper, the i, increased by an estimated 19 per cent between April 2011-March 2012 and April last

A MONTHLY energy supplement in The Press and Journal newspaper has got itself a website offshoot. Energy Voice, has - says its publishers, DC Thomson - "a dedicated team

TONY Jervis is the commercial director of MediaCom Scotland, where he has worked for the last six years.. MediaCom is the UK’s largest media buying agency group, with 140-plus

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

THE purchase last year of one radio group by another has been approved by the competition authorities, but only on condition that several stations are sold, including either

SAYS the radio listening audit body, RAJAR, on average 90 per cent of the UK population tune into radio each week and that, again on average, a listener tunes

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

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

BARONESS Ford of Cunninghame, Margaret Ford, is to be the new chair of STV Group plc, which operates STV, following news today that present incumbent, Richard Findlay, has

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

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

THE Aberdeen-based commercial radio station, Northsound 2, has enjoyed an average 40 per cent rise in its audience reach since this time last year- according to the latest

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YOU get the feeling they have probably been praying for this for years, the sub-editors at the Daily Record. Reported Gordon Currie, a violin teacher had illegally 'cleared out'

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