AN announcement from the BBC begins: “An eclectic mix of great names – including Paul Merton, Joanne Harris, Jo Brand, Rory Bremner, The Proclaimers, Sylvie Guillem, Denise Mina, Imran Yusuf, Nish Kumar and Ian Rankin – will star in the BBC’s wide-ranging output at the Edinburgh Festivals next month.
“Most of the content will come from the BBC’s Festivals venue at Potterrow, where a host of acts will be on stage over three weeks from Friday 7 August, with more shows and events also taking place in other venues throughout the city.”
And the announcement continues: “Highlights this year include The One Show and BBC Breakfast live from Potterrow and TV specials, Edinburgh Nights, with Kirsty Wark, and Sue Perkins’ Big Night Out, while of course Edinburgh wouldn’t be complete without The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.”
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A DEADLINE of September 25 has been set for entries to an annual competition celebrating the best of student television.
The UK-wide Student Television Awards are run by the Royal Television Society.
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THE organisers of a competition celebrating the best of internal communications are looking for “the icons of internal communication – the people who make a real difference to employee communication through their skills, knowledge and commitment”.
The ICon Awards 2015 – run by the Institute of Internal Communication – includes categories for best team, editor, writer, designer, image creator, digital innovator and community manager.
The deadline for entries is 30 September, with the winners being announced on November 12.
These awards complement a different competition run by the Institute, the IoIC Awards, which are for specific projects, magazines, articles, etc – as reported, here, on allmediascotland.com.
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REPORTS the Evening Times newspaper, the makers of a film about the radical clergyman, theologian and writer, John Knox, are speaking to broadcasters and distributors with the aim of securing as wider an audience for their film as possible.
Says the Evening Times, here, ‘Knox’ has been made by students, mostly financed via a crowdfunding initiative and is to be premiered in Edinburgh next week.
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AN obituary penned by Allan Laing, in today’s Herald, begins: “Jack Warden, who has died aged 87, was a former political correspondent of the Glasgow Herald and one of the leading Westminster journalists of his generation.
“He started out as a copyboy at The Herald and later served the newspaper with great distinction as a general reporter, a political correspondent and then as the man in charge of the Westminster team.”
Laing writes that Warden joined the Glasgow Herald from The Scotsman and went on, to serve, with distinction, at the Daily Express.
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FANS of football clubs, Dundee and Dundee United, might be the lucky winners of canvas prints, of their teams – thanks to cutting-edge printing technology.
Say publishers, DC Thomson: “The Evening Telegraph is giving away a one-off 24-page magazine with the paper [today], packed with all of the latest football news ahead of the new season.
“The Tele’s Big Kick Off features exclusive player and manager interviews from both sides of Tannadice Street, as well as profiles of the players to watch.
“There’s a pull-out full fixtures list for both Dundee and Dundee United for the Scottish Premiership season which starts this weekend.
“Readers are also being given the chance to win one of 40 football canvasses through unique printing in every copy of the magazine.
“Discovery Print, the printing arm of DC Thomson, has given every one of the 30,000 print run a unique player shirt name and number, and code. The winning printing combination will be revealed in [tomorrow’s] edition of the Tele.
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