PRESS regulation in Scotland would continue under the UK’s Royal Charter legislation in the event of a Yes vote in the referendum on independence later this year – according to a report by media and marketing magazine, The Drum.
The magazine’s website quotes a Scottish Government spokesperson and also the director of the Scottish Newspaper Society, John McLellan.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS to the online service, HeraldScotland – run by the Herald & Times Group – now exceed those for its print versions, newspapers The Herald and the Sunday Herald.
Says a media release posted only minutes ago, on allmediascotland.com, HeraldScotland is the “UK’s fastest-growing regional news website” and that “the Glasgow-based Herald & Times Group pioneered charging for digital news in December 2011″.
Update January 8 2014: HoldtheFrontPage website report the tale too.
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CHILDREN’S TV characters, such as Peppa Pig and Postman Pat?
They are celebrated in a new series of stamps issued by the Royal Mail, from today.
You recognise them all? Click the image to open it up. The full line-up features Andy Pandy, Ivor the Engine, Dougal – from The Magic Roundabout, Windy Miller – from Camberwick Green, Mr Benn, Great Uncle Bulgaria – from The Wombles, Bagpuss, Paddington Bear, Postman Pat, Bob the Builder, Peppa Pig and Shaun the Sheep.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Gordon Robertson, director of communications at Edinburgh Airport. Reported The Herald yesterday, he has been named the new convener of the Association for Scottish Public Affairs.
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A TWO-page feature arguing that ‘effective marketing is essential for business success’ is penned by Marketing Society director, Graeme Atha, in today’s Scotsman. He writes ahead of the Marketing Society Star Awards for 2014.
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IT applies almost entirely to England and Wales (there is a little that’s applicable to Scotland), but in a blog about the Defamation Act 2013, the editor of the Press Gazette has some possibly useful advice for Scots journalists.
Dominic Ponsford also provides some best practice suggestions for website publishers.
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SCOTS TV presenter, Lorraine Kelly, is featured celebrating 25 years as ‘Britain’s queen of the TV sofa’ in The Scottish Sun today.
Reports the paper, for whom she writes a column, her five ‘best guests’ have been Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Peter Ustinov, Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney.
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TWO job adverts were posted on the site yesterday, both by Romanes Media, which is looking for a senior reporter on the Greenock Telegraph and also a commissioning editor across its business titles.
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THE cover price of The Guardian newspaper is going up. From this weekend, the Saturday edition of the paper increases from £2.30 to £2.50, while from Monday the weekday edition will climb from £1.40 to £1.60. The paper announced the changes yesterday.
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“Scotland is lucky to have, in Andy Wightman, a dogged campaigner on the vexed issue of land reform.” So begins columnist, Harry Reid, in The Herald today. It tees up a BBC One Scotland investigation on land ownership in Scotland, being broadcast tomorrow evening, at 22.35.
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