THE website, radiotoday.co.uk is reporting that Insight Radio’s Stuart Barrie is joining Bauer to take on the role of regional content director for Bauer City East Scotland.
Says the website: “Stuart is currently station manager at the RNIB community radio station, and will be responsible for Forth One, Northsound 1 and Tay FM.
“He was previously regional programme controller for Capital Scotland and the North East, as well as XFM and Beat 106 in Glasgow.”
Read more, here.
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AND elsewhere on radiotoday.co.uk: “Aberdeen’s Original 106 [radio station] has started its ninth consecutive Christmas Toy Appeal this week to help local families.
“The station is, as ever, wanting listeners to donate toys, but this year Original is widening the scope of the appeal to include non-perishable foods that will stock local food banks over the festive season.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS James McEnaney, a columnist on the website, CommonSpace: “On Thursday 15 October 2015, the very last NewsShaft podcast went online (as noted here, on allmediascotland.com).
“Despite an ever-increasing audience, the lights at this particular beacon of Scottish media have finally gone out. Whether or not you were a regular consumer of NewsShaft’s content is immaterial – its decline matters because modern Scotland needs new media.
“Non-traditional platforms and digital news services act as a vital mechanism for the democratisation of debate by providing a platform for a far more diverse range of opinions and backgrounds than traditional media has ever managed.
“Issues like gender balance and BME representation are far from solved – the majority of output still comes from white males – but there can be little doubt that new media is, as a rule, far more open and diverse than its older, more established cousin.
“This matters because public discourse impacts upon public policy; so long as debate is constrained within the framework of the media status-quo, radical change will remain out of reach.”
Read more, here.
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STARTS Mark Sweney, in The Guardian (here): “Senior News UK executive, [Scot] David Dinsmore, has argued that there is a place for the type of exposé broken by journalists like Mazher Mahmood, the undercover Sun reporter charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in September.
“Speaking at the Society of Editors conference, the former Sun editor was asked if there was a place for journalists like Mahmood, known from his time at the News of the World as the Fake Sheikh.
“’Absolutely there should be,’ said Dinsmore, now the chief operating officer at News UK.”
And pressgazette.co.uk begins its report of Dinsmore’s appearance at the conference, thus: “Former Sun editor, David Dinsmore, said [yesterday] that the last General Election proved to him that newspapers trump social media in terms of influence.
“And he revealed new research from YouGov which he said showed the influence newspapers have.”
Read more, here.
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