A FREE, monthly newspaper serving Scotland’s island communities – mainly those in the Outer Hebrides – has printed its last print edition, to concentrate on being solely online.
Island News & Advertiser is based in Benbecula, but had copies appearing in the airports of both the Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands and also distributed across the Inner Hebrides.
With a print run of 10,000, it was launched in March three years ago by long-established journalist, Susy Macaulay, whose career began with Dundee-based newspapers group, DC Thomson, and has included long spells with the BBC Scotland programme, Landward, and also an English-language radio station based in Spain.
The paper is an one-person operation and Susy believes the move to solely online will not only save on the cost, time and personal energy involved in running a print operation.
She told allmediascotland.com: “Our advertisers, including job advertisers, continue to be keen on promoting themselves and their vacancies online, so I think the decision to cease printing is simply about moving with the times.”
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FROM Friday’s edition of The Herald newspaper: a leader column rebutting a claim that it has been partisan in its recent reporting of entrepreneur, Michelle Mone.
The story has been picked up, here, by the trade website, holdthefrontpage.
And the leader can be read, here.
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AND news from the beginning of the month: congratulations to Douglas Dickie, who has been promoted to the post of editor at the Rutherglen Reformer newspaper.
He was previously senior reporter and takes over from Kenny Smith who has moved to sister publication, the Ayrshire Post.
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THE Herald today reports: “A former [Scottish] Premier League football club chairman has lost [a case taken to the BBC Trust] a long-running dispute with with BBC over comments made by a pundit.
“Michael Johnston, who earlier this year stepped down as chairman of Kilmarnock FC after ten years, was upset at claims made by former Hearts and Hibernian player, Michael Stewart, on the BBC Sportscene programme.”
Read more, here.
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A MAGAZINE journalist and a graphic designer are being sought by the newspapers, magazines and comics publisher, DC Thomson.
Both posts are on the title, Thunderbirds Are Go.
View the vacancies, here and here.
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TICKETS are said to be fast running out for a three-day technology festival, taking place in Edinburgh.
The Turing Festival begins on Friday.
Says the festival’s website of its day one offering: “From SEO to CRO, content to community, building a team to building a brand: come and learn from the web’s best marketers.”
Read more, here.
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