IT’S ten years since Edinburgh Napier University and the Edinburgh College of Arts collaborated to launch Screen Academy Scotland – the national and internationally-accredited film school, dedicated to the teaching of ‘screen skills’, such as scriptwriting and directing.
And to celebrate, a screening of under-graduate, under-graduate and alumni work is taking place on Thursday in the capital.
Indeed, so popular is the event, organisers have had to switch to a bigger screen.
To find out more, click here.
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THE assistant golf editor at the Glasgow-based publisher of golf magazines – bunkered, Scottish Club Golfer and English Club Golfer – is seeking to raise money for charity, by playing 100 holes in a single day.
Michael McEwan will be joined by Tom Lovering (one of the directors of PSP Publishing) in playing the equivalent of five-and-a-half back-to-back rounds of golf, seeking to raise money for Yorkhill Children’s Charity.
It is taking place on the 22nd of this month and, to donate, visit here.
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A COMMUNICATIONS officer is being sought by Audit Scotland, as advertised here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
Do please mention allmediascotland.com when replying to job adverts you see being showcased on the site.
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A COMPETITION celebrating the best of Scotland’s marketing sector has announced the shortlist for its prestigious Marketing Team of the Year accolade.
The Marketing Society Scotland’s Star Awards are taking place on the 18th of this month.
And making it to its Marketing Team of the Year shortlist are: AG Barr, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, Graham’s The Family Dairy, Tennent Caledonian Breweries, Scottish Government and VisitScotland.
Read more, here.
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WRITES former BBC Radio Scotland presenter, Derek Bateman, on the website, Newsnet.scot, it seems to be anything but peaceful at the Corporation’s Pacific Quay HQ in Glasgow.
He then goes on to describe what the headline to his article neatly summarises as: BBC News and its ‘Scottish problem’.
Read more, here.
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FASCINATING blog on the website, pressgazette.co.uk, imagining newspaper content like music on streaming service, Spotify.
Aka ‘news like water’.
Read more, here.
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FUNDING applications are being sought by a worldwide organisation representing women in the media, which has just announced the recipients of its inaugural grants round.
Says the International Women’s Media Foundation: “Nine trailblazing women journalists were selected from a stellar pool of 650 applicants representing media projects based in over 100 countries.”
And the IWMF adds, there is an estimated $2.3m to be made available over the next ten years.
Read more, here.
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WIDELY reported, including here, in The Herald, which begins: “Actor, Peter Mullan, has criticised the BBC for ‘horrendous bias’ in its reporting of the Scottish independence referendum.”
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BEGINS The Scotsman: “The jury in the perjury trial [in Edinburgh] of former News of the World editor, Andy Coulson, has been told to return later this week as the court continues to deal with legal issues.”
Read more, here.
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ALSO reports The Scotsman today (page 11), Edinburgh and Loch Ness are to be among a handful of UK locations to host a “leading Puerto Rican celebrity ‘cultural’ reality TV show”.
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