MARK McSherry, a former business editor at The Scotsman and Sunday Times Scotland, has joined The Independent and London Evening Standard group, as US business correspondent.
McSherry, who also previously worked at Reuters, Bloomberg and South China Morning Post, also writes Markets Week Ahead columns for forbes.com.
Reports The Drum media and marketing magazine, McSherry will continue as Professor of Communication Arts at St Francis College, Brooklyn.
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REAPING the rewards of being more conversational in one’s tweets? Seems to the case at Traffic Scotland, whose media officer, Naomi Cornwall, is quoted on the STV (Glasgow) website, as saying: “We had slowly been making it more personal anyway, but a survey in November told us that 90 per cent of people wanted more friendly and informal Tweets.”
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IF listeners to BBC Radio Scotland’s football coverage at the weekend were wondering the whereabouts of regular host, Richard Gordon, the answer was provided by The Scotsman yesterday: he was doing some golf commentary, in Abu Dhabi.
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SCOTS TV presenter, Lorraine Kelly, is understood to have had, for a second time, an image of her used without permission to promote diet pills.
Says the Daily Record: “Kelly has threatened to sue a firm who used a picture of her to sell diet pills. A Twitter follower told the Scots star about an advert which claimed the 54 year-old ITV host had used the herbal tablets to lose weight.”
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EDINBURGH-based digital agency, Heehaw, will no doubt be grateful for your vote in an online poll of work that should feature in the print edition of the media and marketing magazine, The Drum.
Heehaw has been shortlisted for a campaign on behalf of the Mary King’s Close historic site in the capital.
And fellow Edinburgh comms agency, Story UK, has also been shortlisted: for its revamp of a membership case for the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.
You have until Monday to vote, with the winners to feature in the February 5 edition of the magazine.
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A FORMER chief writer on the Sunday Mail newspaper has joined Beattie Communications.
Says a media release posted on allmediascotland – here – Donna White “will be driving content marketing campaigns to increase clients’ visibility online”.
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THE charity, CHILDREN 1st, is seeking a communications team leader (as advertised here on allmediascotland) and also a communications officer (media and PR), as advertised here.
Meanwhile, Media Scotland is seeking a social media assistant (here) and a digital content journalist (images) – here.
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WIDELY reported yesterday – including here in The Guardian and here on Pressgazette.co.uk: Tony Gallagher, editor at the Daily Telegraph, has been axed.
Says The Guardian: “Gallagher’s abrupt departure comes as Jason Seiken, the former PBS executive hired to be Telegraph Media Group’s chief content officer and editor-in-chief in September, seeks to restructure the organisation to move the focus away from print and put greater emphasis on digital content.”
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THE Chartered Institute of Public Relations (Scotland division) has just uploaded a video of its relatively recent 2013 awards ceremony:
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