BEGAN The Herald, on Saturday: “The BBC’s outgoing political editor has defended his reporting of the [Scots independence] referendum campaign, while admitting that the controversial phrasing of a news item that caused a row with Alex Salmond ‘wasn’t good’.
“Nick Robinson, who is leaving his role to present Radio 4’s Today programme, said he ‘agonised’ over how to report an ill-tempered exchange with the former First Minister a week before the vote last September.
“His report for BBC News, which claimed Mr Salmond ‘didn’t answer’ a question, went viral on social media and led to allegations of bias by some in the pro-independence campaign, demonstrations outside the Corporation’s Glasgow headquarters and calls for the broadcaster to resign.”
Read more, here.
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REPORTS the Aberdeen newspaper, the Evening Express: “A well-known North-east freelance photographer who has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease said he’s determined to make the best of what life he has left.
“Donald Stewart, 61, has been forced to give up working at Aberdeen FC’s games at Pittodrie, something he’s done for more than four decades, starting as a photographer with Aberdeen Journals in 1974.”
Read more, here.
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THE ‘secret is out’, Andrew Neil, tweeted on Saturday.
The Scots broadcaster and former Sunday Times editor and Scotsman publisher has got himself married – aged 66.
The story and congratulations are reported, here, by The Guardian.
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FURTHER developments in an investigation by the Sunday Herald’s Paul Hutcheon, who has been following, these last few weeks, claims of possible spying on the media and their sources.
Read him, from yesterday’s edition of the paper (page three), here.
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THE Scotsman today carries an obituary, remembering BBC sound and radio broadcast technician, Ben Lyons – here. He died last month, aged 92.
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ANNOUNCES a media release posted on allmediascotland.com by The BIG Partnership, Radio Clyde has appointed Graeme McKellar, as its head of Creative.
Read more, here.
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REPORTS STV: “A Palestinian photojournalist who was invited to show his work at the Edinburgh Festival has been denied an entry visa by the UK Government.”
Read more, here.
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EVERYONE, go to Facebook.com and wish Scots journalist, Martin Hannan, a speedy recovery.
He writes, here: “Sad to say that following my knee op, the old ticker problem of arrhythmia returned and I am being kept in the Golden Jubilee for observation, at least until tomorrow. Still, when you have one of the best cardiac units in the world across the corridor, you have to think there are worse places to have your heart playing silly buggers.”
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