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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

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

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

“Houston. We have a problem.” Okay, that was not quite what was uttered by Apollo 13 crew member, John Swigert Junior. What he actually said was, “OK Houston

I CAN'T remember the last time the excitement was so tangible at Pacific Quay, with BBC Scotland staff 'chomping at the bit' for their engagement with new director-general,

“HERE'S some news just in." The news channel anchor looked very grave and stuck her finger in her ear, so that she would make no mistake. “We’re hearing that

SO, we are nearing the end of my third-year journey. In a couple of weeks, I will be completely finished. The magazine is totally done and distributed throughout Edinburgh.

IT had the potential to feel like a wake, with a death certificate citing numerous causes: strangulation by regulation, haemorrhaging of audiences, short supply of revenue, internal complications

TOMORROW, the BBC is scheduled to screen a Panorama report by John Sweeney, on North Korea. It was made by the BBC team going undercover on a trip by

WITH Hilary Devey, of Dragons' Den, heading up The Intern on Channel 4 this month, it got me thinking about my formative years in the magazine business. When I

GOTTA love this change stuff, eh? We’re no longer writers or story-tellers, we’re now content producers. We don’t crib, borrow or adapt ideas, we repurpose them. And my personal

THERE is an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer’s head is turned into a huge doughnut. He knows it’s wrong but he just can’t stop eating himself;

TOWARDS the end of next month - March 21 - will see BAFTA in Scotland announce the winners of their New Talent Awards for 2013. The awards, unparalleled anywhere

IT'S probably best to put the result of last night’s debate about women’s sport on STV’s ever-improving Scotland Tonight in a context easiest understood by some. However, the outcome

FRIEND or foe - can you trust the tabloid Press? Discuss. It’s hardly a new topic but it’s the one that’s up for debate on Wednesday during a session

YOU might not have noticed, but the USA is about to be invaded. Not by 'green monsters from Mars' but by something which many Americans regard with even greater suspicion

NOTHING brought home to me more the variety, potential and opportunity of the Scottish newspaper industry than when I attended my first council meeting of the Scottish Newspaper

AS the glorious floods of summer begin to subside, there are signs that Scottish journalism has entered the silly season a few downpours early with a piece in

SCOTLAND remains a country of knee jerk secrecy, despite Freedom of Information and good Scottish Information Commissioners, past and present. Sometimes I wonder if, when Communism fell, the KGB’S