BEGINS Martyn McLaughlin, in The Scotsman, today: “BBC chiefs are working on plans for a pared-down broadcast of the Glasgow 2014 opening ceremony if planned strike action over pay by the Corporation’s journalists and technicians goes ahead, according to a source within the Corporation.”
allmediascotland.com yesterday noted that the NUJ, BECTU and Unite trade unions intend to go on strike for 12 hours from midday on Wednesday.
Last night, BBC Scotland’s Reporting Scotland news programme said (around the 2’40” mark) that talks are due to take place tomorrow, in London, to try to avert the strike.
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MARKETING executives are continuing to revise their budget plans upwards, according to a marketing budgets survey published by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.
Indeed, says the IPA of its Bellwether Report, this is the seventh successive quarter-year that marketing budgets plans have been revised upwards, “the longest period of continuous growth in the survey’s 14-year history”.
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The story is picked up by, among others, The Scotsman (page 28, today).
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BEGINS the C21Media website: “UK indie association, Pact, has blasted BBC director of television Danny Cohen’s suggestion that superindies should not receive the same terms of trade as smaller producers.”
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REPORTS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games are set to be live streamed on YouTube with the aim to ‘extend the reach’ of the Games.
“Live output from the Games every day is set to be followed by two-hour long daily highlights.”
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REPORTS The Guardian: “The BBC has pledged to quadruple the number of disabled people it puts on TV by 2017 as part of a ‘radical’ package of measures across the Corporation, including a new disability champion.”
The story is picked up elsewhere, including in today’s The Herald (page four).
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THE topic of libel is being debated this evening, at an event in Edinburgh organised by a campaign group who would like to see a new Defamation Law in England and Wales extended to Scotland, fearing that freedom of speech might not be as protected in Scotland compared to south of the border.
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The event is taking place at the Saltire Society.
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A REPORTER on the weekly newspaper, the Alloa & Hillfoots Advertiser, has penned a children’s book, titled, The Battle of Bannockbun – the play on words inspired when he spotted a typo in a newspaper.
Coincidentally, Hamish Hutchinson is from Bannockburn. This year is the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. Hutchinson’s book, meanwhile, features ‘Merlin the Mouse [fighting] Robert the Moose over a bun they discover on the fields of Bannockburn in 1314′.
He said, after spotting the typo in a newspaper article about the Battle of Bannockburn: “Being a journalist myself, I know how easy it is to miss a mistake like a typo.
“Then I started joking with friends that the famous battle involved cream cakes and scones. I thought the idea was so daft it would be great fun to write as a children’s story.”
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