A SCOT elected to an international body representing cartoonists is seeking to hear from fellow cartoonists – press or otherwise – who have been harassed or threatened because of their work.
Terry Anderson has, for the past 16 years, worked mainly for the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio in Glasgow. Last year, he curated and toured an international cartoon exhibition about the Scottish independence
referendum (as noted here, on allmediascotland). He is also a past president of the Scottish Artists Union.
And now, he has been elected to the board of Cartoonists Rights Network International, a human rights organisation specifically for cartoonists whose life, liberty or livelihood are under threat.
Contact him on 07739 139597.
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BEGINS the website, radiotoday.co.uk: “[Broadcasting regulators] Ofcom will advertise for a new local radio station in Scotland later this year after [radio stations group] Global gave up the XFM licence.
T”he regulator says the 96.3 FM frequency, which was previously allocated to serve Paisley, will cover West Central Scotland.”
Read more, here.
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JUST posted – as a media release, by Media House International – an appeal by the Gaelic media service, MG ALBA regarding Gaelic language programming and the BBC Royal Charter consultation.
MG ALBA and the BBC together operate BBC ALBA, and MG ALBA is calling for an increased commitment to Gaelic programming from the Charter renewal.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “The growing prevalence of digital devices has been thrown into stark relief by the findings of a new study, which showed that a quarter of children aged three and under now own an iPad, a proportion which rises to 31 per cent amongst children under five and 37 per cent for those between three and five.
“Researchers found that young children with access to such gadgets spend an average of one hour and 19 minutes on the device each weekday, often without the supervision of an adult.”
Read more, here.
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AND The Guardian reports: “Twitter has launched Moments, a new service which hopes to show users the day’s most popular stories, as the 140-character social network takes a stab at news curation.
“The new button in the middle of the app marked by a lightning bolt brings users a curated, magazine-style view filled with comments, images and videos pulled from users on the ground and news organisations’ Twitter feeds.
“The Moments tab shows stories curated by a small editorial team based at Twitter in New York. The tab is divided into sections including “today” and news, sports and entertainment.”
Read more, here.
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