BEGINS the BBC: “The SNP’s strategic communications director, Kevin Pringle, is leaving the party to take up a new job in the private sector.
“He will be joining the communications consultancy Charlotte Street Partners, which is based in Edinburgh and London.
“It was founded last year by BAA’s former communications director, Malcolm Robertson, and the former head of group communications at RBS, Andrew Wilson.”
The Scotsman reports the story, here, while Pringle tweets the news, here.
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REPORTS the website of The Church of Scotland: “Next season, the BBC2 programme, An Island Parish, will follow the fortunes of the communities living in the Shetland Islands.
“Soon, the filmmakers will be heading to Shetland, to show us a year in the life of the people living in the most northerly part of the British Isles: the islands of Unst and Whalsay.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS an announcement from the organisers of the Edinburgh International Television Festival: “Celebrated and inimitable Scottish comedian, Frankie Boyle, is set to host the prestigious Edinburgh TV Awards at this year’s TV Festival.
“The critically-acclaimed performer made his anticipated return to television last year, and became one of the festival’s favourite speakers in 2014 with his honest views on the TV industry.
“Boyle’s State of the TV Nation address was one of the most popular sessions at the festival, garnering over 580,000 views on YouTube and Facebook – and counting.”
Read more, here.
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SAYS the website, CommonSpace.scot: “Alternative news sources in England and the UK are now looking to Scotland for lessons in creating a significant challenge to the mainstream following the rapid growth of new digital media sites in recent years, according to Newsnet Scotland’s Derek Bateman.
“Speaking at the CommonSpace launch party at Glasgow School of Art on Sunday, Bateman said there was a desire to replicate what the alternative media in Scotland has achieved.
“Hundreds attended the launch party, including other new media outlets such as Kiltr, Newsnet Scotland, Independence Live, Left Scotland and NewsShaft.”
Read more, here.
And The Guardian’s media commentator, Roy Greenslade, begins: “One of the major legacies of the Scottish referendum has been the rise of alternative media, not least because the majority of Scotland’s mainstream media opposed independence.
“They include Bella Caledonia, Wings Over Scotland and Newsnet.scot. Now comes a fourth, CommonSpace, edited by Angela Haggerty.”
Read more, here.
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THE Herald’s Inside Track feature today sees the paper’s feature writer, Mark Smith, ask to what extent the BBC is too liberal or not liberal enough?
He starts: “The fact that both Scottish nationalist leftwingers and English Tory rightwingers regularly accuse it of being so is probably proof enough that it isn’t. But here’s another, slightly different question: is it too liberal?”
Read more, here.
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