WIDELY reported: the death of radio broadcaster, Scot, Ray Daniels – including here (in the Daily Record) and here (radiotoday.co.uk, which includes a tribute from former colleague, John Collins).
Says Collins: “In Scotland, he’s best known for two stints on Drive at Westsound and later at Real Radio Scotland.”
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THE People’s Friend magazine – published by Dundee-based DC Thomson – enjoyed an average print circulation of 214,414 between January and June this year, according to official figures.
Says ABC, the Audit Bureau of Circulations, The People’s Friend also saw an average 400 digital downloads per edition, over the period. It’s year-on-year print average was down 6.7 per cent.
In ABC’s consumer magazines report, issued yesterday, only four Scottish titles featured.
As well as The People’s Friend, there were print numbers for the free i-on Edinburgh magazine (an average 19,832, no year-on-year comparison figure and no digital download option), My Weekly (103,137, down three per cent, year-on-year) and the Weekly News (21,723, down 17.6 per cent, year-on-year).
My Weekly has a digital download option, but it is not audited.
Says the website, MediaTel.co.uk (here): “The women’s weekly magazine market took a big hit during the first half of the year, with no title recording an increase in its combined print and digital audience – both over the period [Jan-June 2015] and the year.”
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A SENIOR news reporter/assistant news editor is being sought by The Press and Journal newspaper, as advertised here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
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THE latest rulings from the Independent Press Standards Organisation includes an adjudication that a complaint against the Dunfermline Press was not upheld.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Falkirk Herald: “When a Glasgow lawyer decided to create a newspaper for the booming industrial towns centred around Falkirk, he was able to take advantage of the latest technological advances.
“Alexander Hedderwick might not have been based in the district, but he could easily distribute his fledgling title, thanks to the new railway linking Glasgow and Edinburgh via Falkirk and Polmont, which had opened three years previously.
“The first edition of The Falkirk Herald went on sale 170 years ago today – and the paper has served the district ever since.”
Read more, here.
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THE Organisers of the Edinburgh International Book Festival have announced that, in a collaboration with BBC Arts, ten events from the 2015 Book Festival will be live-streamed and available on demand by BBC Arts Online.
Live-streamed events include some of the Book Festival’s flagship sessions, including a talk by the American civil rights activist, Reverend Jesse Jackson, a conversation between the Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer Val McDermid and Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and an introduction to Scots comedian Limmy’s new book.
For more, click here.
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BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “The Sun has issued an apology for publishing an image of another man as murderer, Alexander Pacteau, on Wednesday.”
It reproduces the correction, here.
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