ANNOUNCES The Herald newspaper: “The Herald has announced a year-on-year increase in paid-for readership in the year to June.
“Bucking the national trend, the Group has delivered a net increase in paying readership across The Herald’s print and digital platforms. Online paid subscriptions have also surpassed the 10,000 mark for the first time in June.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS pressgazette.co.uk: “[Scot] George Galloway earned as much money through journalism in the first four months of the year as his annual pay for being an MP.”
The story is reported also by the New Statesman and the Telegraph & Argus newspaper in Bradford, where Galloway is a local MP.
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ALSO in the pressgazette.co.uk (here): “Police are to investigate the alleged assault and intimidation of a journalist who was taking photos after a road accident in Scotland.”
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BEGINS Iain S Bruce, in the Sunday Herald: “The Scottish internet is set to be born next week as the country gets its own national domain name for the first time – with the expected profits to be invested in digital initiatives proposed by the public.”
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OVER the last few days, there’s been much written about plans by the director-general of the BBC to free up the way programmes are commissioned – dismantling guarantees for in-house producers but also allowing those same producers the facility to make programmes for other broadcasters.
A speech by Tony Hall, outlining his ideas, was published by The Guardian, on Thursday (here). And the same paper today continues the post-speech analysis, with comments from some industry ‘big-hitters’, here.
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ALSO in The Guardian, an article that begins: “In his seminal 1995 work of futurism, Being Digital, MIT Media Lab co-founder, Nicholas Negroponte, coined the term, the ‘Daily Me’, to describe a virtual daily newspaper customised to an individual’s tastes.
“It’s possible to detect versions of Negroponte’s vision in many recent developments, from the ‘suggested articles’ based on your surfing which now appear on many websites, to services such as Paper.li, which selects social media links according to your stated interests.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS Greig Cameron, in today’s Herald: “A Scottish software company headed by a former Walt Disney executive is planning on rapid growth as it launches a new toolkit which it believes can save the animation industry millions of pounds.
“Digimania, which employs 30 artists, animators and software engineers in Glasgow, has developed a 3D real-time rendering package which is already generating interest from around the world.”
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IT was Scot, Alan Hansen’s final appearance on the BBC last night, as a football pundit. And The Independent newspaper marks his retirement by capturing a selection of tweets about his departure – here.
The BBC celebrates his career as a pundit, here.
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