IT was a trio of highly commended prizes for Scots nominations in an awards ceremony celebrating the best of the UK’s regional Press.
In the Young Journalist of the Year category of the Regional Press Awards, a highly commended award went to Anthony Joseph, from the Evening Express, in Aberdeen, while The Herald’s Simon Bain also featured, this time in the Business and Finance Journalist of the Year category.
Making up the trio, The Courier’s Jim Crumley was highly commended in the Columnist of the Year category.
Catch the winners, here.
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SAYS the Daily Record newspaper of its former sports editor, Alan Rowan: “By day, he was a busy journalist and by night he became the Munro Moonwalker, scaling the country’s highest hills while the rest of us slept.
“And he has just told his amazing story in the new book, Moonwalker.”
The book is published by BackPage Press, set up three years ago by then sports journalists, Martin Greig, Neil White and James Porteous.
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THE UK edition of a news analysis and comment website (written by academics and edited by professional journalists) has just celebrated its first birthday, with its Scots editor saying it has come a long way so far, but it is only just the beginning.
Writes Stephen Khan, UK editor of The Conversation: “A year from now, we expect The Conversation to be operating in more countries and exploring new ways of delivering smart content. So far more than 2,500 academics from more than 250 institutions have worked with our UK-based editors.”
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AN online survey about job security/insecurity is being carried out – here – by the Trades Union Congress.
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THE Association of British Science Writers is hosting its latest annual conference on the 18th of next month, in London.
Read more, here.
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INTERESTING case adjudicated by the Press Complaints Commission and involving the Daily Record.
Says the PCC, the newspaper had run a photo that it had altered so that it didn’t include a person because he was a ‘defendent in a criminal trial’.
The complaint was that the altered photo was misleading, which the PCC accepted, as it did also a reassurance that the paper would provide a clarification.
Read the case, here.
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A DEADLINE of the 18th of next month has been set for entries to the Scottish Creative Awards.
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FASCINATING article in the Sunday Herald about the possible implications for the TV and film sectors in Scotland were the country to vote for independence in September.
It’s by Robin MacPherson, director of the Screen Academy Scotland and the Institute for Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University.
PS The Sunday Herald also reports that Glasgow Film Theatre is launching “an on-demand Netflix-style service which will showcase Scottish films to audiences around the world”.
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IT was the BAFTA Television Awards last night. Click here for the winners’ list.
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THE Edinburgh radio station, Castle FM, has been served a warning notice by the broadcasting regulators, Ofcom.
Says Ofcom, here, it is to do with a period of relative inactivity during December and a requirement to hold recent recordings, both of which appear related to a move to new premises.
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THE managing director of Clydebank-based YOUR Radio has been appointed managing director of Global in Scotland.
Tracey McNellan will take up her post next month. Says a Global media statement: “McNellan’s media career spans more than 20 years with director roles at Radio Clyde and West Sound Radio. McNellan was managing director for Global in the East Midlands in 2011.”
Read more, here.
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