BEGINS an announcement on the website of Dundee-based newspapers, comics and magazines publisher, DC Thomson: “[We have] purchased the Scottish women’s lifestyle title, No.1 Magazine.
“Published to date by PSP Publishing Limited, No.1 Magazine has been in circulation for almost ten years.
“As Scotland’s glamorous glossy magazine, the title captures everything Scottish from celebrity news, fashion and beauty to interior trends, fitness, food and events.”
Read more, here.
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A CONVERSATION that was broadcast by accident has earned the station involved a rebuke from the broadcasting regulators, Ofcom.
Reports the watchdog, Heart (Central Scotland) apologised soon after bad language was caught by a microphone that was meant to have been switched off but was, instead, ‘live’.
Read the adjudication, here; Ofcom saying the language breached one of the sections in its broadcasting code.
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BEGINS an announcement issued by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau: “Hope&Glory has been appointed to devise and implement a national strategic communications plan for Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (GCMB) following a competitive pitch.
“The agency has been tasked with delivering UK-wide media outreach activity to support a series of brand campaigns led by GCMB promoting the city’s arts, culture, retail, music, architecture and food and drink credentials.”
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AND begins Maggie Brown, in the June edition of the Royal Television Society magazine, Television: “With Team 56 – as SNP MPs call themselves – forming the third-largest party in Parliament, the impact on broadcasting in the UK is likely to be profound. And the effects are certain to spread beyond the BBC Charter debate.
“The economist Jeremy Peat, a former BBC Scotland governor and trustee, observes that the General Election outcome ‘represents a massive vote for change’, requiring ‘not sticking plaster, but fundamental change’.
“He adds: ‘We are miles away from a stable equilibrium.'”
Read more, here.
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THE former Scottish Labour leader, Jim Murphy, has been quoted saying social media can be ‘brutal and vile’.
His remarks are reported by Emily Ashton on the website, BuzzFeed, who goes on to quote him, as saying, by way of advice to any young person considering a career in politics: “I’d say you’d have to be careful – very, very careful – about the social media vapour that you leave in your teenage years.
“I would encourage another generation of idealists to become involved but do it with your eyes wide open and with a thicker layer of skin.”
Read more, here.
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