BEGAN the cover feature in yesterday’s Spectrum magazine, that accompanies Scotland on Sunday newspaper: “Who are we? What is it that makes us Scots and what does it mean to be Scottish or live in Scotland?
“Last September’s [Scots independence] referendum and the ongoing debate has focused minds on these questions more than ever before, and with the anniversary of the vote this month, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery is staging an exhibition that attempts to point a lens at the key issues.
“Inspired by the vote, The Ties That Bind is the work of four of the country’s top documentary photographers – Stephen McLaren, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Colin McPherson and Sophie Gerrard.”
Read more, here.
The exhibition runs from the 26th of this month to April 24.
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MEANWHILE, words and pictures by Stephen McLaren appear in a feature published in yesterday’s Sunday Herald Life magazine, about Scotland’s connections with the slave trade of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Read him, here.
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A DEADLINE of the 16th of next month has been set for entries to this year’s Scottish Magazine of the Year Awards.
Run by the Scots division of the Professional Publishers Association (PPA), the awards ceremony is taking place in Edinburgh on December 16.
For more details, click here.
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BEGINS the trade website, pressgazette.co.uk: “Nearly nine in ten journalists enjoy their job, according to a survey conducted by Press Gazette to mark its upcoming 50th birthday.
“Some 715 journalists filled out an anonymous online questionnaire, a sample which represents more than one per cent of the 64,000 Britons estimated by the Labour Force Survey to work in journalism.
“The survey results provide an overview of who Britain’s journalists are, where they work and what their concerns are for the future of the industry. Press Gazette will be releasing further survey results over the coming weeks.”
Read more, here.
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THE Herald’s Scott Wright began, on Saturday: “It is not until the end of the interview that Mark Hollinshead [former MD of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, followed by other roles within publishers, Trinity Mirror] answers what really should have been this correspondent’s opening question.
“Why did this 30-year veteran of the newspaper industry vacate a senior role with Trinity Mirror to lead the company behind some of the UK’s most popular running events?
“’People have asked me, why did you move? Was there any reason?’ said Mr Hollinshead, who became chief executive of Brendan Foster’s Great Run Company this summer.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the trade website, radiotoday.co.uk: “XFM has closed after 18 years on-air, and with it came a number of ‘last show’ memories from its presenters.
“The very last live show on Sunday was presented by Dave Rowntree, who made no secret of the fact that the station was closing later that evening. Although the final show was simply an hour of non-stop XFM music before the branding switched to Radio X.
“Jon Holmes, on his last XFM breakfast show played out a montage of past presenters as a tribute, and in Manchester, the last guest on Drive with Clint Boon was the also first guest on the station – Shaun Ryder.
“Meanwhile, in Glasgow, the station closed for good just after 6pm on Sunday.”
Read more, here.
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