THE sports editor at The Herald group of newspapers – The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times – has been appointed digital content editor at the titles.
Jonathan Coates will be working alongside Gordon Stevenson – whose appointment as head of digital was announced – including here – in July.
Succeeding Coates – who was named sports editor in spring – is Graham Shields, who was most recently assistant editor at the Evening Times.
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BEGINS an announcement from radio station, Capital FM: “Scotland’s home of live entertainment, The SSE Hydro has announced a national new talent search in association with venue partners’, Capital FM and RAYMOND WEIL, and charity partner, Nordoff Robbins Scotland, to launch ‘Capital FM’s One To Watch’.
Read more, here. And the story is picked up, here, on the website, media.info.
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REPORTS STV: “A new hard-hitting documentary series examining life behind prison bars starts on Sky 1 at 10pm on Wednesday, 28th October.
“Prison: First & Last 24 Hours unlocks the reality of crime and punishment in modern Britain and follows convicted criminals on the two most important days of any sentence: the first and the last 24 hours.
“For this landmark series, the filmmaker, STV Productions, has gained unprecedented access to four Scottish prisons: HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow, HMP Low Moss, HMP Greenock and Scotland’s only women’s prison, HMP Cornton Vale.”
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A TWEET on the Daily Record twitter account – that ‘World War Three could be just 30 SECONDS away as attacks on ISIS stepped up’ – gets rather short shrift from The Guardian’s media pundit, Roy Greenslade, here.
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BEGINS an announcement from the Scottish Government: “Culture Secretary, Fiona Hyslop, [yesterday] outlined the Scottish Government’s priorities for BBC Charter renewal in a meeting with the head of the Corporation.
“At a meeting with BBC Director General, Tony Hall, Ms Hyslop reiterated the Scottish Government’s calls for the Corporation to operate under a new federal structure and create new TV and radio channels for Scotland.
“Her meeting with Lord Hall was the latest of several the Culture Secretary has held in recent weeks with key representatives of the BBC and UK Government to outline the Scottish Government’s expectations from the current BBC Charter renewal process.
“It comes in the midst of an extensive consultation exercise the Scottish Government is carrying out with the public and stakeholders across Scotland to inform its approach towards Charter renewal.”
Read more, here. The story gets picked up on page seven of today’s Herald and on the BBC website, here.
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AND in Scotland on Sunday newspaper, Brian Ferguson, begins: “Leading film and television producers have demanded Westminster intervenes to ensure more industry decision-makers are based in Scotland.
“A parliamentary inquiry has been told the screen sector north of the Border has been allowed to slip into an ‘unacceptable’ and ‘disgraceful’ condition over the last decade because so little is now being made. The Scottish Affairs Committee has been warned action is urgently needed to overhaul the structure of the BBC because ‘all the power rests in London’.
Read more, here.
And the story also made an appearance in yesterday’s Herald, page seven.
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AND a crowdfunding project has been launched to raise £20,000, to make a documentary claiming BBC bias during the run-up to last year’s referendum on Scots independence.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS an announcement from PR agency, Pagoda Porter Novelli: “Luxury Scottish venue, Dundas Castle, has appointed Pagoda Porter Novelli to handle its public relations.
“As a leading provider of weddings and corporate events, Dundas Castle fits well into the company’s portfolio of luxury and high-end tourism and leisure clients.”
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STARTS The Guardian’s Mark Sweney: “The media regulator has decided not to launch an investigation into Kelvin MacKenzie referring to Nicola Sturgeon as the ‘lady who runs Jockestan’ on BBC2’s The Daily Politics show, after deciding that the comment was ‘justified by the context’.
“Ofcom received almost 80 complaints from members of the public who found the comment about Scotland’s First Minister offensive.”
Read more, here.
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