REPORTS the website, radiotoday.co.uk: “After 21 years presenter Radio 4’s Today programme, [Scot] James Naughtie is changing jobs to become special correspondent for BBC Radio 4.
“From January 2016, James will continue to be heard on Today but also other Radio 4 programmes. He’ll write and present radio documentaries and continue to anchor the overnight coverage of elections, and the EU referendum, on BBC Radio.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Herald’s Greig Cameron: “One of the directors of Scotland’s largest public relations agency has stepped down after more than 12 years with the business.
“However, Marjorie Calder will continue working for BIG Partnership on a consultancy basis.
“Her resignation was noted in a filing at Companies House.”
Read more, here.
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TO assist him cover tomorrow’s Summer Budget, the owner of the website, Daily Business, has hired in a couple of colleagues from his recent past.
Ex Business editor at The Scotsman, Terry Murden, is taking on, for the day, Dominic Jeff and Lindsey Rogerson.
Dominic is a former business reporter at The Scotsman while Lindsey is a former personal finance editor at the paper.
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A TRAINEE artist is being sought by the Scottish Daily Mail – as advertised, here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
And repeated on twitter.com/allmediajobs.
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THE executive chair of Edinburgh-based communications consultancy, Indigo, has been appointed the first woman director of Partick Thistle Football Club.
The appointment of Jacqui Low has been announced here, on the Partick Thistle website, and reported widely across the media.
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THE Guardian’s Jasper Jackson, reports: “Cuts to the BBC would threaten the rest of the TV ecosystem and the UK’s entire creative sector, according to the chair of the trade body representing independent TV producers.
“’There is a very real concern that if the licence fee is reduced, frozen or there are huge other areas of spend put in, that’s a very, very real concern, not just to producers, but to the entire creative sector in this country,’ said Pact chair, Laura Mansfield.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the BBC: “Twelve employees at newspaper publisher Scottish Provincial Press (SPP) face losing their jobs, Unite has said.
“The union said the workers had been notified about redundancies after pre-press and design work was outsourced to a company in India.”
Read more, here.
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THE exact function of a film reviewer? It’s one of the questions to emerge from a letter in The Scotsman, from the artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, who has written to object to an opinion expressed in a particular review.
Read more, here.
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THE funeral of TV presenter, Michelle Watt – who died, aged 38, towards the end of last month – is widely reported, including here (Scottish Daily Mail) and here (The Herald).
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WRITES The Herald’s David Leask, in The Herald’s Inside Track comment slot: “…helping true specialists – even the squabbling variety who disagree among themselves – to condense their insights in to words the rest of us can understand is, I’d say, one of the most important roles of journalism.”
He is writing about so-called ‘experts’.
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