A MAN has been jailed for six months after having been found guilty of making sectarian threats to a journalist on the Glasgow-based media and marketing magazine, The Drum.
The reporter, Angela Haggerty, is quoted by her magazine, saying: “I’m relieved that the case is now over and I’m satisfied with the court’s judgement. Mr Limond targeted me both because of my profession as a journalist and because of my Irish heritage.”
Haggerty had edited a book about the financial collapse of Rangers FC, the year before last.
The quote continues: “I hope that the case will encourage others to report similar abuse and intimidation. The result of this case is an important one for journalism in Scotland. Protection of journalists is vital for a healthy media environment and intimidation of journalists who covered the financial collapse of Rangers has been well-documented.”
The story is widely reported elsewhere, including on the front pages of The Herald and the Daily Record.
The National Union of Journalists in Scotland yesterday tweeted, welcoming the sentence.
The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade writes: “Scotland’s mainstream media have finally grasped the significance of a story about the racist abuse of a Glasgow-based journalist.”
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AT current rates, the number of view pages via a mobile phone of the internet portal and search engine, Yahoo!, could be soon as high as the number of pages viewed via a desktop computer.
So predicts the strategy director at Yahoo! UK & IE, Piers North, who writes, on the media and marketing blog, The Wall: “At Yahoo!, we now have more than 390 million monthly mobile users, up from 200 million at the end of 2012. If numbers continue to grow at this almost 100 per cent rate year-on-year, it’s not unfeasible that our mobile page views could be on par with the 800 million global monthly users we currently have on desktop by this time next year. Needless to say, this growth in mobile usage will make its importance as an advertising platform even greater.”
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THE deadline is looming for entries to a competition celebrating the ‘best in print and digital news media production and innovation’.
Entries to the Newspaper Awards 2014 require to be submitted by the 24th of this month.
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FOR journalists who use Freedom of Information requests to prize out stories, herewith a listing (compiled last month) of some big news stories last year, delivered with the help of FoI: read it here. The Daily Record, Scottish Daily Express and The Herald all get a mention.
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STARTING this evening on BBC ALBA, Bean a’ Mhinisteir / The Minister’s Wife, a new six-part series following the lives of three very different ministers’ wives. Tonight, 2030-2100.
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AN archive including more than 10,000 articles from more than 35 years of reporting has been donated to the Glasgow School of Art – by The Herald’s former art critic, Clare Henry. Writes Phil Miller, in The Herald today, Henry was the paper’s art critic for 20 years.
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FORMER STV News presenter, Juliet Dunlop, today – in her regular column for The Scotsman – admits to feeling uneasy about the use of graphic images by all the main TV broadcasters as it reported the death of Fusilier, Lee Rigby. Earlier this week, broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, adjudicated that news coverage of the killing of Rigby, in Woolwich, did not breach broadcasting guidelines.
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UK advertising spend is predicted to grow by 5.3 per cent on last year – to £18.8 billion. The forecast comes from the latest edition of the The Advertising Association/Warc quarterly Expenditure Report.
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HEADS up: The Edinburgh & District branch of the National Union of Journalists is holding its annual general meeting on Monday. Its current post-holders are: Chair: Liam Rodger, Vice-chair: Hilary Horrocks, Treasurer: Brian Horne, Secretary: Pat Herd, Welfare officer: Hilary Horrocks, Equality officer: Pat Herd and Edinburgh TUC rep: Hilary Horrocks.
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THE Glasgow-based graphic design agency, KVGD, will no doubt welcome your online vote, in a poll of recent creative work sourced by the media and marketing magazine, The Drum. You have until Monday to vote, to have KVGD’s Letterpress Wallplanner possibly feature in the magazine’s print edition.
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URGENT action is required to make the internet accessible to everyone in Scotland, writes Alan Alexander, co-chair of the Digital Scotland Working Group at the Royal Society of Edinburgh – in The Scotsman today.
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AN editor is being sought by The Oban Times, to succeed Stewart MacKenzie, who has stepped down for personal reasons. His post is being advertised on allmediascotland.com.
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JIM Mullan begins on Monday as group chief executive at The Big Issue magazine, and he’s the subject of a feature in today’s Herald, by social affairs correspondent, Stephen Naysmith.
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THE recently-appointed manager of Greenock Morton FC is reported, saying he is not speaking to the media, on the advice of his doctor.
When Kenny Shiels was manager of Kilmarnock FC, until the Summer, some of his comments to the media then led to punishments from the football authorities.
Says The Scotsman: “The Northern Irishman took over as Cappielow boss last month but has so far refused to speak to the media after matches.”
The BBC adds: “Shiels [says] he has no problem talking to journalists in his day-to-day work but [plans] to leave the match-day media duties to assistant, David Hopkin.”
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GLASGOW-based digital agency, Dog Digital, has reportedly been taken on for three years to provide digital and technical consultancy services to Switzerland-based sports marketing company, Infront Sports & Media.
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THE value of film and TV drama as educational aids? Dani Garavelli, in The Scotsman, considers…
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TAKE a look at The Scottish Sun’s latest TV advert, Year We Go, made by The Gate Films. It was directed by ‘Bert and Bertie’ and produced by Victoria Watson.
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SHAUN Milne, editor (digital publishing) at STV, will not be alone in wondering whether a similar initiative could be built in Scotland, after reviewing a video about a museum in Washington DC, dedicated to celebrating the news media. The video features the legendary American TV and radio host, Larry King.
Watch it here (long version) and also here (the trailer)…
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