BEGINS The Lighthouse design and architecture centre, in Glasgow: “Graphic Design Festival Scotland is an international event which promotes creativity, innovation, collaboration and challenges ways of thinking through a programme of workshops, talks, panel discussions, exhibitions, competitions, music and urban murals.
“The festival promotes the best of international graphic design and visual communication and aims to inspire and educate through active engagement. Networking and socialising play a key role in the festival and we aim to build relationships and networks across the world.”
The festival gets underway, in earnest, from Monday – as detailed here.
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ENTRIES are being invited by the organisers of an annual competition celebrating the best of hospitals radio.
The deadline for entries into this year’s Hospital Radio Awards is the 15th of next month.
Read more, here.
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A SCOTS magazine celebrating beers, wines and spirits has been shortlisted in an UK-wide awards competition celebrating the best of ‘independent’ magazine publishers.
White Light Media’s Hot Rum Cow has been shortlisted in the category, ‘Front cover of the year – consumer’, in this year’s Independent Publisher Awards run by the Professional Publishers Association (PPA).
Also nominated is the Glasgow-headquartered media and marketing magazine, The Drum – in several categories.
And Scotland-based Matthew Ball is also shortlisted, this time in the ‘designer of the year’ category.
Read more, here, in the regular allmediascotland feature, Media Awards.
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FROM yesterday’s Herald newspaper: Bob Wyllie, former BBC Scotland reporter and then a communications manager, has been appointed senior special advisor for the new leader of Glasgow City Council, Frank McAveety.
Read more, here.
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REPORTS pressgazette.co.uk: “Newsquest paid £15.2m to acquire Romanes Media Group, the company’s accounts have shown.
“The regional publishing giant announced it had bought Romanes, the publisher of 29 newspapers, in May [as noted, here, on allmediascotland.com].
“Scotland-based Romanes published 19 paid-for weekly newspapers, nine free titles and one daily, the Greenock Telegraph.
“They also include the Reading Chronicle, Dunbarton Reporter, Dunfermline Press, Alloa Advertiser, Carrick Herald, Bracknell News and Slough Observer.
“According Newsquest’s annual report, in the year to September 2014 Romanes made an operating profit of £2.9m on turnover of £18m.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS Andrew Liddle, in The Press and Journal: “The SNP’s planned new flagship BBC Scotland TV service could be left languishing beside a craft channel because of pressure on the digital network.
“The Scottish Government plans to pump hundreds of millions of pounds of licence fee money into the new channel.
“But it would be forced to take the last available entertainment slot on Freeview – next to Jewellery Maker.
“The revelation will come as a major blow to Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop, who had intended the channel to showcase Scottish production talent.”
Read more, here.
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AND staying with the P&J, it is reporting: “An Argyll man has won the coveted Gold Medal at the Royal National Mod on home turf after being runner up for four years in a row.
“Donald Iain Brown, 46, who hails from Tiree, won the medal for fluent Gaelic solo singing in Oban on Wednesday night.
“Mr Brown, who now lives in Glasgow, is head of talent and editorial operations at the BBC.”
Read more, here.
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WRITES Andrew McKie, in today’s Herald: “… one of the most obvious disadvantages of journalism, when compared with biography or history, is that it’s not always easy to see the big picture when you’re in the thick of it.”
He was mainly writing about obituaries.
Read more, here.
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