LAST week, allmediascotland reported the departure of Denise West, as managing director of the Scottish and North-east of England divisions of newspaper publishers, Trinity Mirror.
And this week she has been appointed by Dundee-based DC Thomson publishers, as head of commercial for its newspaper business.
As soon as the news was announced, at lunchtime yesterday, it was tweeted on www.twitter.com/allmedianews.
There’s a report about the move on the website, holdthefrontpage.
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‘DIGITAL media’ has been named among the key target areas for an additional 3,500 places at Scotland’s colleges – unveiled by the Scottish Government and reported by, among others, the Daily Record and The Courier newspapers.
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THE Scottish Football Association is seeking a web/social content producer, as advertised on allmediascotland, here.
It costs just £120+VAT to post a media vacancy on allmediascotland.com
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IT is described as the list the Press Complaints Commission would ‘rather you didn’t see’, and so the director of the Hacked Off campaign for ‘a free and accountable Press’ has produced it himself.
Professor Brian Cathcart has produced a table of the most complained-about newspapers in the UK and The Huffington Post website has published it, here.
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THERE’S to be a second series of the BBC Scotland comedy series, Bob Servant, with filming beginning in May – says a BBC media release, here.
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SURELY, a simple case of crossed wires…
Writes Graeme Croser, in the Scottish Mail on Sunday, it was almost a long journey from Glasgow, wasted.
Previewing the League Cup semi-final match between Hearts and Inverness Caledonian Thistle, he begins: “Win today and Inverness Caledonian Thistle will have earned a place at a major cup final for the first time.
“That considered, one might quite reasonably describe this lunchtime’s League Cup semi-final against Hearts as the biggest match in the club’s history.
“What a shame, then, that the Highland outfit adopted such a small-time mentality in the build-up to the Easter Road fixture. Having happily travelled the 170 miles to the Caledonian Stadium to the Caledonian Stadium to preview the game, Sportsmail was informed there was no prospect of speaking to a member of the playing staff.
“Manager, John Hughes, eventually fulfilled his press conference obligations under duress, quipping that, if it was up to him, he wouldn’t be speaking either.”
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IT’S ten years since Scot, Andrew Cotter, began commentating rugby union for the BBC and Martin Hannan – in yesterday’s Scotsman – gives him a glowing review for his TV commentary of the Ireland versus Scotland match on Sunday.
And Hannan ‘runs the rule’ over other Scots also involved during the matchday broadcast: co-commentator, Chris Paterson; analyst, Andy Nicol; and pitchside reporter, Jill Douglas.
Hannan ends: “But the real puzzle about the BBC’s coverage of [the] match was their use of Jill Douglas. This excellent broadcaster is wasted in the role of pitchside interviewer, for the Hawick lass knows more about rugby than most men in the job. Let’s have more Jill and Andy and less piffling punditry.”
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THREE content controller appointments have been made by Bauer Media at its Scots radio stations, Tay FM, Moray Firth Radio and Northsound 1. Read the media announcement – posted here on allmediascotland – about the appointments of Micky Gavin, Martin Morrison and John Slater.
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