BEGINS Saturday’s edition of The Herald: “An award-winning student newspaper has gone into liquidation.
“The Journal, an Edinburgh-based publication which featured on a number of occasions at the Herald Student Press Awards, was said to have ceased trading amid mounting debt, and its website has also shut down.”
Read more, here.
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AND begins The Guardian: “When Armando Iannucci delivers the 40th MacTaggart Lecture in Edinburgh on Wednesday evening, he will be joining a long list of UK broadcasting luminaries given an agenda-setting platform.
“Dennis Potter, John Birt, Jeremy Paxman and no less than three members of the Murdoch family are among those who have used the speech to set out their views on the future of TV in search of headlines and influence.
“It is why the Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival, which grew up around the lecture, retains its place as UK broadcasting’s leading annual event.
“It offers the festival’s 1,700 delegates something different from more mundane industry conferences, despite its growing appeal to commission-hunting independent producers and, increasingly, international delegates.”
Read more, here.
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REPORTS the website, Daily Business: “Kevin Dorrian has bought out his partner, Alistair McLean’s share in Edinburgh-based Acumen PR after Mr McLean decided he wanted to retire.
“The consultancy, which works with clients based throughout the UK and overseas, was formed in 2002 and advises companies and organisations in a range of sectors.”
Read more, here.
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WIDELY reported, including here, in The Scotsman: “Alex Salmond has hit back at BBC broadcaster, Nick Robinson’s ‘ludicrous’ comparison between Vladimir’s Putin’s Russia and demonstrations staged by Nationalists during the referendum campaign.
“The former First Minister also branded the corporation’s outgoing political editor an “embarrassment” over his coverage of the referendum – and even compared the Corporation with former Soviet propaganda newspaper, Pravda.”
Among those who have also picked up the story: the Daily Record (here) and The Guardian (here).
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CHECK out the several Scots journalists involved in a programme of speaker events being hosted this week in Edinburgh, by local book publisher, Luath Press… here.
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