The Beano has been named Scottish Magazine of the Year.
The DC Thomson-published title beat off the challenge of five other hopefuls for the main prize at the Scottish Magazine Awards ceremony, run by the Professional Publishers Association (Scotland) and held last night in Edinburgh.
Across all category awards, a total of 160 entries were whittled down to a shortlist of 110.
Read more, here, as part of the regular allmediascotland.com feature, Media Awards.
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BEGINS an announcement from STV: “Long-running ratings success Antiques Road Trip returns to BBC One, weekdays at 1630 from Monday 4th January.
“Back for a 12th series, Antiques Road Trip [made by STV Productions] sees Britain’s favourite experts hit the road as they compete to make the most money at auction. The programme will air every afternoon for five weeks.”
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REPORTS the website, Daily Business: “[Edinburgh-based] Holyrood PR account director, Brian Lewis, is leaving to take a job overseas. His departure follows a number of changes at the Edinburgh agency.
“Lewis, who joined after a spell with the Aegon comms team, leaves at the end of the year having landed a job with Abu Dhabi-based agency, Seven Media.”
Read more, here.
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AS previously intimated, on Tuesday: the last Your Noon Briefing. Two years ago, allmediascotland.com began to curate media news already ‘out there’, having previously sourced stories itself.
And now the site format is to change yet again.
Remaining: media jobs, media releases and the media shop. Upcoming: a hopefully much more effective media directory.
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THE Herald’s Greig Cameron reports: “Design and digital agency, Lewis, has seen turnover rise more than 13 per cent to a record £1.6 million in its most recent financial year.
“The Edinburgh company, which employs 25 and recently moved to a larger office, said it had benefited from winning new clients such as Dynamic Earth and National Museums Scotland in the 12 months to the end of February.”
Read more, here.
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PAGE 15 of today’s Scotsman reports the departure of Scots broadcaster, James Naughtie, from BBC Radio 4’s Today programme – after 21 years at the news flagship.
His final broadcast was yesterday; as he prepares to work on other projects at the BBC.
A picture of Naughtie, surrounded by colleagues, graces page two of today’s Herald.
Read a BBC report of his departure – here.
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AND Herald columnist, John McLellan, today considers the various efforts to establish a permanent film and TV studio in Scotland – here.
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