SCOTLAND’S pro-independence daily newspaper, The National, is celebrating its first birthday tomorrow with – say its publishers – “a special anniversary edition and exciting additions to its regular content”.
Says the Herald & Times Group: “To celebrate the paper’s first birthday, the special edition will include a review of the year’s highlights with editors discussing the making of their favourite 15 front pages from the last year.
“Pro-independence figures – such as Nicola Sturgeon, Alex Salmond and Patrick Harvie – have also contributed individual messages of support to celebrate the paper’s one year milestone.”
Read more, here, in a media release posted on the site by The BIG Partnership.
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SCOTS broadcaster, Andrew Neil, has been commended for an address he delivered during the TV programme he hosts on a Thursday evening, on BBC One, This Week.
Reports Radio Times: “The speech, which was aimed at those responsible for the shootings and bombings in Paris [a week last Friday] which saw over 129 killed, has been hailed by viewers on Twitter as ‘his finest monologue to date’ and a ‘magnificent love letter to Paris’.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS Peter Swindon, in the Sunday Herald: “The SNP has attacked a major inquiry into the future of public service broadcasting claiming it is ‘weighted heavily towards southern England’.
“The ‘Future for Public Service Television’ inquiry is led by Labour peer and former deputy chairman of Channel 4, Lord Puttnam, and a team of experts who appear to have little or no experience of Scottish media.”
Read more, here.
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THE radio broadcaster, Suzie McGuire, is the subject of the latest Face to Face interview, in The Herald – here.
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BEGINS John MacKenzie, in The Scotsman’s ‘Friends of The Scotsman’ section: “A recent decision in the Supreme Court of British Columbia explored once again the vexed question of the law of passing off in relation to keyword advertising.”
He is a commercial litigation partner with law firm, Shepherd & Wedderburn.
Read more, here.
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A REPORTER is being sought by The Oban Times, to be based at the title’s Fort William office.
The vacancy is being advertised, here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
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THE long-standing issue of so-called ‘Weekend Warriors’ reporting on Scottish football is being taken up in a motion being submitted to the policy-making body of the National Union of Journalists.
Says the motion, penned by the Edinburgh Freelance branch of the NUJ: “This Delegate Meeting [DM] notes the growing presence at football matches and other sporting fixtures of so-called ‘Weekend Warriors’ – amateur photographers and reporters who take work away from professionals and who are often admitted to press areas of the football ground or sporting arena, causing congestion and other difficulties for professional journalists.
“This DM instructs the NEC to initiate negotiations with the Football Association, the Scottish Football Association and all other relevant sporting authorities to seek to ensure that only properly accredited journalists are admitted to the press areas of sporting grounds, and that the UK press card is recognised as an important form of professional accreditation.”
It is now for the motion to be considered for inclusion on the DM agenda, and in what format (as written or amended).
The next DM is scheduled for Southport, in April.
Read more, here.
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