BEGINS an interim management statement issued today by STV, covering the period August 28 to yesterday: “The group continues to deliver trading in line with expectations.
“In the consumer business in the year-to-date to end of October, national advertising revenues were up six per cent. Looking ahead for the full year, national advertising revenues are expected to be up six per cent. Regional airtime revenues were up six per cent to end of October and are expected to be up per cent for the full year.
“In line with previous indications the digital business continues to grow with full year revenues expected to be up 15 per cent to 20 per cent.”
Read more, here.
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THE leading Scots PR agency, Pagoda PR, is seeking an account manager – to begin immediately.
The vacancy is advertised here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board, and repeated on twitter.com/allmediajobs.
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SAYS the chief executive of the publisher of The Scotsman newspaper, as he talks about a ‘digital tipping point': “The media industry is now looking at the Press at a slightly different way; I think the old assumptions that we are on an one-way trajectory to doom is… we’ve proven it is not the case.”
Ashley Highfield, CEO of Johnston Press, was being interviewed at a conference held by MediaTel.co.uk.
There are two YouTube clips of the interview, here:
and here:
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BEGINS the website, pressgazette.co.uk: “Writing for the web is exactly the same as writing for print. It’s also completely different. The trick is knowing which rules from the older medium still apply and which don’t.
“Here’s my starter for five…”, says Jon Bernstein, described as an ‘independent digital media consultant and writer, formerly deputy editor then digital director of New Statesman and multimedia editor at Channel 4 News’.
Read more, here.
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TOMORROW, an updated set of guidelines for journalists on the reporting of mental health, mental illness and suicide is being launched in Glasgow.
Read why, by Paul Holleran, the Scottish Organiser of the National Union of Journalists – here, in the latest allmediascotland.com op ed.
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