THE former BBC presenter – Scot, Dougie Donnelly – is “neither retired nor dead”, but is instead the face of a TV channel dedicated to golf.
Writes Martin Dempster, in the Saturday Interview in the weekend sports supplement of The Scotsman, Donnelly was 32 years with the BBC and has not worked for the Corporation for nearly four years.
Donnelly is now a commentator on the Golf Channel and Dempster quotes him describing his time at the BBC coming to an end, by … voicemail.
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DO you tweet? If you are busy and you are part of the Scottish media, then feel free to tweet what you are up to, work-wise, and add to the ongoing, ‘busy Scottish media conversation’ that is #scotsmedia247.
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THE appeal of the BBC TV programme, Top Gear? Russell Leadbetter considers in the Sunday Herald, to coincide with the programme’s live shows in Glasgow.
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THE marketing of movies. You can vote online from a list of ten contenders in the first-ever Guardian Film Awards. Neither Edinburgh nor Glasgow are mentioned in the ‘Best film festival’ category.
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WEAR red and sit in the front row – or as near as you can get. Two suggestions among several tips on how to report a press conference which – says the website, journalism.co.uk – “can be daunting even for an experienced journalist”.
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YESTERDAY’S Noon Briefing noted a concern that several media outlets might have (albeit inadvertantly) breached contempt of court rules in Scots law in their reporting of the Mikaeel Kular case. It noted also a report in The Herald newspaper saying police were vowing to investigate “potentially illegal online comments” concerning the death of the three year-old.
We missed, however, the Daily Record headline, also from yesterday: ‘Lawyers warn social media users about dangers of illegal posts relating to Mikaeel Kular case’, and the accompanying article, which we now flag up, here.
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AN obituary is published in The Scotsman today, of former magazines editor at DC Thomson, David McColl, whose stewardship of the weekly girls’ magazine, Jackie, coincided with it enjoying a circulation in excess of a million.
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THE BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have been cleared of breaching broadcasting regulations – by broadcasting regulators, Ofcom – for giving airtime to radical cleric, Anjem Choudary, in the wake of the fatal attack on Fusilier, Lee Rigby, in Woolwich – reports The Guardian and also The Herald, among others.
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BIG interview with Oli Norman, founder of deals online site, itison, and DADA PR… Read it here, in The Herald.
And also in The Herald – in its business supplement today – an interview with Brian Hughes, co-founder of the Scottish social networking site, KILTR.
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