BEGINS the Dundee-based Evening Telegraph newspaper, today: “A Tayside journalist held in the Ukraine by soldiers has been released.
“Former Perth High School pupil, Graham Phillips, said he was ‘free and fine’ after being freed, and said that he was not facing criminal charges or deportation following his arrest at an army checkpoint near Mariupol.
“In tweets posted last night he said: ‘I’ve just recently been released after being detained by Ukrainian authorities at Mariupol yesterday. Was then transferred to Zaporozhye where I stayed the night, under armed guard. Removed by armed guard today, questioned thoroughly on my work for #RT-com’.”
Read more here: among others, The Scotsman, the BBC, The Guardian, The Courier, etc.
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AND begins The Scotsman: “An independent Scotland could support increased TV and film production and help boost the economy, the culture secretary has said.
“Fiona Hyslop warned that Scotland’s £440 million broadcasting industry was ‘lagging behind’ other small countries.”
Read the Scottish Government’s media release about it, here.
P.S. Check out this review of the TV production sector in Scotland, written by Adrian Pennington in the trade mag, Broadcast.
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YOU can read tomorrow about how Scots independence might impact on the country’s TV and film sectors, in a column being published on allmediascotland.com by Robin MacPherson, Professor of Screen Media at Edinburgh Napier University, director of the Screen Academy Scotland and of the Institute for Creative Industries, also at Edinburgh Napier.
And you can read a different article by him today, in today’s Scotsman, headed, ‘Don’t let our creative talent go to waste’.
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THE Edinburgh-based creative agency, The Leith Agency, has been named among 28 entries – from around the world – shortlisted in a competition recognising ‘top creative healthcare advertising’.
Says the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, organisers of the Best of Health Awards, the competition is now in its 19th year.
Read more, here.
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POLICE Scotland is recruiting; it’s seeking a head of corporate communications, as advertised here on allmediascotland.com and repeated on twitter.com/allmediajobs.
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THE chief executive of Channel 4 is to deliver the main lecture at this year’s Edinburgh Television Festival.
David Abraham has been confirmed to give the prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at this year’s ‘Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, powered by YouTube’.
Now in its 39th year, the festival will take place from Thursday August 21 to Saturday August 23.
Read more, here.
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THE first programme details of an annual radio festival have been announced.
Taking place in Salford in October, the Radio Festival attracts around 500 delegates.
Read more, here.
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A COMPANY that specialises in ‘data-driven direct marketing’ has appointed Weber Shandwick Scotland, to handle its public relations.
Says Glasgow-based Aquira – here – the appointment follows a four-way tender process.
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