A COMPETITION celebrating the best of the regional Press in the UK is to begin accepting entries from Friday.
The Regional Press Awards are run by the Society of Editors, in partnership with the news agency, the Press Association, and the website, holdthefrontpage, which reports – here – the various category prizes up for grabs.
The deadline for entries is the seventh of next month.
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A PR consultancy, based in central Edinburgh, is up for sale.
The identity of the company is being kept secret, with allmediascotland.com acting as an intermediary, passing on notes of interest.
For more information, click here.
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THE HQ of the Edinburgh Evening News newspaper was briefly brought to a standstill yesterday, when the star of a show on tour in the city made an appearance.
War Horse is currently being performed at the capital’s Festival Theatre, which says of the show: “War Horse tells the powerful and uplifting story of young Albert (Lee Armstrong in his National Theatre debut), his beloved horse Joey, and the unimaginable obstacles they overcome both individually and together.”
The Evening News reports the visit, here, with an accompanying video.
Pictured with the horse, the editor of the Evening News, Frank O’Donnell.
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‘OPEN questions’ are “absolutely key” to good interview technique, according to one of the main presenters on the BBC Radio Scotland morning news show, Good Morning Scotland.
Gary Robertson was himself being interviewed, at an event organised by the Scots organisation, Creative Loop, which helps provide students with an insight into the professional media, mainly broadcasting, world.
He can be heard speaking, here.
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INTERESTING paragraph in a news story about a BBC Scotland investigation into alleged fraud within the NHS…
The BBC website previews the investigation, being broadcast this evening at 22.35, on BBC One Scotland.
And it contains the par: “Another case involved an NHS communications manager who claimed hundreds of pounds for private journeys from a health board taxi account, after she had left her job there.”
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A RADIO station duo are travelling the length and breadth of Scotland, bringing back the best of their travels for a Saturday lunchtime show.
Real Radio Scotland’s Ewen Cameron and Cat Harvey are being assisted by ‘roving reporter’, Shiona McCallum, whose brief involves undertaking various challenges.
The Saturday noon-1pm show – Ewen and Cat’s Guide to Scotland – is in association with tourism agency, VisitScotland, and a repeat of a similar initiative last year.
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GLASGOW-based Celtic Music Radio 1530AM is reporting that it has just registered its biggest-ever audience in six years of full-time broadcasting – in a media release, posted here on allmediascotland.com.
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