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Your Noon Briefing: Scottish Press Awards, spying on journalists’ sources, etc
December 16, 2015
THE 37th Scottish Press Awards has issued a call for entries. A deadline of the…
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Your Noon Briefing: MSPs to quiz BBC bosses, festive viewing on BBC ALBA, etcDecember 15, 2015
BEGINS The Scotsman: “A Holyrood committee is calling on BBC bosses to set out how...
Wanted: Communications officerDecember 14, 2015
A COMMUNICATIONS officer is being sought by the Police Investigations & Review Commissioner – as advertised here,...
Your Noon Briefing: Spying on journalists’ sources, more on Ian Bell, etcDecember 14, 2015
BEGINS the Sunday Mail’s political editor, Mark Aitken: “police chiefs have admitted hunting down journalists’ sources...
Your Noon Briefing: Ian Bell, digital connectivity, etcDecember 11, 2015
THE front page of today’s Herald is reporting the very sad news that writer and...
Your Noon Briefing: Student advertising awards, marketing survey, etcDecember 10, 2015
BEGINS an announcement from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising: “IPA chair for Scotland, Brian Coane,...
The Media in Figures: TV viewing, UK versus the rest of Europe and beyondDecember 10, 2015
SAYS the broadcasting regulators, Ofcom: “TV viewers in the UK appear to be the most...
Your Noon Briefing: BAFTA Scotland new talent awards, training on feature writing, etcDecember 9, 2015
A CALL for entries has been issued by the British Academy of Film and Television...
Your Noon Briefing: Tim Blott, News Academy Scotland, etcDecember 8, 2015
THE managing director of the company – Newsquest Scotland – that publishes The Herald, Sunday...
Your Noon Briefing: TV production report, international PR festival, etcDecember 7, 2015
REPORTS Phil Miller, in The Herald: “A lack of talent at the top level of...
Your Noon Briefing: Kamal Ahmed named BBC economics editor, Firecrest Films, etcDecember 4, 2015
BEGINS the BBC (here): “Kamal Ahmed, the BBC’s business editor, is to become the BBC’s...
In My Opinion: Jim Chisholm: The BBC Charter review and the regional press; what should we Scots make of it all?December 3, 2015
TWO big events re the future of news should be concerning Scots at the moment. The...
Your Noon Briefing: BBC Scotland’s festive programming, Eamonn O’Neill, etcDecember 3, 2015
BEGINS an announcement issued yesterday: “BBC Scotland will serve up a sparkling range of seasonal...
Media Awards: British Journalism Awards 2015December 3, 2015
A BBC Scotland journalist has been named among the winners of a prize at the British...
Your Noon Briefing: Johnston Press restructuring, Scots wins at student media awards, etcDecember 2, 2015
THE managing director of the Scots division of newspaper publishers, Johnston Press – Helen Oldham...
Media Awards: 2015 Guardian Student Media AwardsDecember 2, 2015
STUDENTS from the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde have been named winners at student media...
Your Noon Briefing: ‘Power 100s’, Cat Cochrane, etcDecember 1, 2015
THE head of newspapers publisher, Trinity Mirror’s Scottish operation has been named among the top 100...
Your Noon Briefing: Defamation law, Cumins appointed editor of property guide, etcNovember 30, 2015
BEGINS David Leask, in the Sunday Herald: “Scotland’s online news sites are under serious threat...
Your Noon Briefing: BBC Alba, EventsBase magazine launches, etcNovember 27, 2015
BEGINS Andrew Whitaker, in The Scotsman (page 7): “The UK government is to withdraw [one...
Your Noon Briefing: Spying on sources, BBC Charter review, etcNovember 26, 2015
WIDELY reported, not least by the Sunday Herald’s Paul Hutcheon, who has been investigating the...
