EDINBURGH-based Radio Forth was last night a winner of a silver medal at the UK’s most prestigious radio awards, the Radio Academy Awards (formerly known as the ‘Sonys’).
The station’s Boogie in the Morning programme came second in the category, Breakfast Show of the Year (under ten million).
The other Scots entries in the shortlist – Moray Firth Radio and BBC Radio Scotland – both finished as simply nominated.
Read more, here.
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THE stepping down, on health grounds, of the BBC Trust chair, Lord Patten, has former Scotsman editor, John McGurk, writing that he should not have been appointed in the first place… here.
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NUMBER one on a list of ‘nine best things about journalists': We tell you things that you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
And number one in the same list, this time about the worst things: We have a tendency to tell young hopefuls that all the quality has vanished from journalism compared to when we started out (journalists have been harking back to a mythical golden age for well over a century).
Read more, here.
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POLICE Scotland is recruiting; it is seeking an intranet manager (as advertised here on allmediascotland) and also two communications managers (as advertised here). Check out twitter.com/allmediajobs, the allmediascotland.com media jobs twitter feed.
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YOU report the fashion sector? Check out the brand new twitter.com/allFashionPR.
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BEGINS the review on the website, Scot-Buzz: “Not for the first time, I have read a piece by Iain Macwhirter and felt an immediate urge to blow my brains out.
“He is one of Scotland’s most compelling and accomplished journalists. His latest publication, for the splendid Saltire Society, is no exception.”
Being reviewed? ‘Democracy in the Dark, the Decline of the Scottish Press and How to Keep the Lights on’ – which was part-previewed, here, by Macwhirter on allmediascotland.com
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APOLOGIES for the late arrival of today’s Daily Feature. All sorted now.
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BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “The Sun newspaper has said that customer service ‘innovation’ was a key factor in the success of its online version Sun Plus, when it moved behind a paywall in August last year.”
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