HE is widely recognised as having overseen the Daily Record newspaper during its pomp.
Endell Laird, a former editor-in-chief of the Daily Record and sister title, the Sunday Mail, has died. He was aged 81.
His death is reported on page 20 of today’s Daily Record, which notes that, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, nearly 780,000 copies of the paper were being sold every day.
Says a death notice in The Herald today, he died peacefully in a care home.
His funeral is taking place on Tuesday.
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BEGINS William Turvill, on the trade website, pressgazette.co.uk: “The growth of Scottish nationalism has been accompanied by a dip in the popularity of established national newspapers north of the border and a ‘flowering’ of news start-ups online.”
Read more, here.
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THE author of an ‘international best-seller’ is to give the keynote speech at a day-long festival taking place in Edinburgh, celebrating and debating marketing.
Adam Morgan will be giving the Ogilvy Lecture at the Amplify Festival, taking place on the 28th of next month.
Say the organisers, the Marketing Society (Scotland): “Adam is the author of ‘Eating The Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders’, the international best-seller that introduced the concept of challenger brands to the world of marketing. His third book, ‘A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations into Advantages, and Why it’s Everyone’s Business’, was published in January 2015.”
The Marketing Society (Scotland) adds: “This annual lecture is a tribute to David Ogilvy, who went to school in Edinburgh before setting up Ogilvy & Mather New York and developing one of the biggest advertising networks in the world. His books on marketing and advertising are still highly regarded both by academics and practitioners. The David Ogilvy era on Madison Avenue is now celebrated in the Mad Men TV series.”
For more, read here.
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AND begins the website, radiotoday.co.uk: “Radiocentre has unveiled a new report outlining its vision for the future of commercial radio.
“A new policy document called ‘Radio. Connecting Past and Future’, proposes new ways of working with Government, [broadcasting regulators] Ofcom and the BBC so radio can continue to thrive.”
Read more, here.
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A COMMUNICATIONS manager is being sought by The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice.
The vacancy is being advertised, here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
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THE Herald’s Highland correspondent, David Ross, begins: “A former Labour minister who was the founding editor of an award-winning weekly newspaper has been sacked as a columnist in a row over freedom of speech.
“Brian Wilson, who served in the energy brief under Tony Blair and has written for the Skye-based West Highland Free Press for most of its 43-year history, was dismissed after coming to the defence of fellow columnist Donald Macleod, a Free Church professor of theology.”
Wilson writes a regular column for The Scotsman.
Read more, here.
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WIDELY reported: the successor to Scot, James Naughtie, as a presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, is to be the Corporation’s political editor, Nick Robinson.
Earlier this week, it was announced that Naughtie is switching jobs.
Read The Herald’s report, here. And The Guardian’s, here.
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DELEGATES at the Edinburgh International Television Festival – taking place next month – are being invited to send messages and questions to the Culture Secretary, John Whittingdale MP, who is taking part in an one-to-one interview, with newsreader, Alastair Stewart.
This is the 40th anniversary of the festival, which this year is taking place between Wednesday 26th and Friday 28th.
Messages and questions require to be no more than ten seconds long and submitted in video format.
Read more, here.
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JUST out: the latest newspaper-sales-in-Scotland figures for national titles…
See Monday’s allmediascotland.com, for details.
In our The Media in Figures feature.
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