THE Daily Record has been named Newspaper of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards.
Also at the awards ceremony, held in Glasgow last night, Marion Scott – of the Record’s sister title, the Sunday Mail – was hailed as Journalist of the Year.
And this, the 36th edition of the competition, saw Drew Cochrane, former long-time editor of the Largs & Millport Weekly News, the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement accolade.
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BEGINS a big feature in a business supplement accompanying yesterday’s edition of The Herald: “It’s exactly 15 years since The BIG Partnership was launched in a friend’s borrowed boardroom – and founding directors, Alex Barr and Neil Gibson, look slightly taken aback as they admit that this is the first time they have both sat down for a newspaper interview about Scotland’s largest PR firm.”
Writer, Colin Cardwell, then quotes Gibson, as saying: “We tend to want clients to be the story, not ourselves.”
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THE best job in the world? Keli Mitchell – client services director at Frame, in Glasgow – seeks to make a case for marketing – in today’s Scotsman, pp30 and 31.
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A RECORD number of entries to awards celebrating the best of marketing in Scotland has been whittled down to a shortlist across 33 award titles.
The Marketing Star Awards are run by the Marketing Society (Scotland).
The winners will be announced on June 18.
Read more, here.
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LAST year, the theme was the Scots independence referendum; this year, it’s the General Election.
A Glasgow art gallery is again hosting an exhibition of cartoons, with some of the best-known names from across the UK on display.
They include Terry Anderson (CommonSpace), Gary Barker (The Guardian), Steve Bright (The Sun), Chris Cairns (Wings Over Scotland), Steven Camley (The Herald), Iain Green (Holyrood Magazine), Lorna Miller (Morning Star) and Greg Moodie (The National).
The exhibition is taking place at Leiper Fine Art – 117 West George Street – until the tenth of next month.
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THE deadline is today for applications to fill two job vacancies, both at The Press and Journal – for a trainee feature writer (here) and for an assistant to the head of photographic (here).
Meanwhile, an advertising sales account manager is being sought by the publishers of Dumfries & Galloway Life magazine – as advertised here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
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BEGINS a media releases posted on allmediascotland by Creative Scotland: “£3million of new funds to support the screen sector and skills development open for applications.”
Read more, here.
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WIDELY reported, including here in the Evening Times: “Channel 4 is establishing a new games publishing arm based in Glasgow.
“It will be led by Channel 4’sc Games commissioning editor, Colin Macdonald, and will involve both Channel 4-funded mobile games and games from developers.
“All 4 Games is planning to publish a wide range of games from third party developers each year.”
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