TRAINING in investigative journalism is to be offered by a Glasgow-based independent TV production company, which boasts several BBC Panorama and Channel 4 Dispatches credits.
Firecrest Films is one of a handful of companies across the UK to be taking part in a Channel 4 scheme, now its fourth consecutive year.
Says Channel 4: “Up to five applicants will be chosen to work in production companies for a minimum of six months, working on a commissioned episode of Dispatches.”
Read more, here.
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FRIDAY’S edition of The Scotsman carried a comment piece by Graeme Atha, of the Marketing Society Scotland, about its upcoming Star Awards.
Read more, here.
In the same edition of the paper: an article headed, ‘Newspaper market must be fair and free’, by City of Edinburgh councillor, Jim Orr.
Read it, here.
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ALSO in The Scotsman – this time, Saturday’s edition – Tiffany Jenkins considers the new BBC commission, Britain’s Hardest Grafter. Here.
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WRITES The Herald’s Alison McConnell, ahead of Saturday’s Scottish Cup final and following the no-show, the day before, at a press conference by the Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC manager, John Hughes… “The pre-match press conference was rendered farcical by the failure of Inverness to send either John Hughes or captain Graeme Shinnie to talk up the game.
“But they were not the only notable absentees.
“[National Stadium] Hampden’s cavernous media room echoed to the sound of keys tapping sedately on laptops, a small band of journalists clattering out their requisite copy.”
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AN EUROPE-wide survey is seeking to find out how much journalists are being paid.
An online questionnaire has had its deadline extended from Saturday, to allow further participation; it is believed that while the survey has been widely completed by German and Danish respondents, other countries – including the UK – are not so well represented.
Check out the questionnaire, here.
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BEGINS an announcement on the website of the Scottish Government: “The Scottish Government and its agencies will forge better, more direct links with the Scottish film industry, Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said today.
“Film industry leaders will be invited to form an expert group to support the government and its creative and enterprise agencies to better understand and respond to the needs of the sector.
“Setting up the group is one of several actions the Scottish Government will take following a recent inquiry by the Scottish Parliament’s Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee into the economic impact of the creative industries in Scotland.”
Read more, here.
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THE influence magazines have had on her life… the website of the Professional Publishers Association (Scotland) carries a blog by Joanna Cummings, winner of the Postgraduate Award at the Scottish Magazine Awards 2014.
Read it here.
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