THERE is to be a new managing director for The Scotsman and its sister titles, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News – the MD of Johnston’s Yorkshire division.
In an announcement made by the papers’ publisher, Johnston Press, Helen Oldham is to take responsibility for the three titles, in a move that sees Stuart Birkett, stepping down as Scotland ‘publishing unit’ managing director, after 22 years with the company, “to pursue other interests”.
Adds the announcement: “Stephen Plews, MD for the North East, has his portfolio extended to include all other Scottish brands excluding The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News.”
Read more, here.
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DURING the year, April 2013 to March 2014, BBC Scotland broadcast 191.01 hours of current affairs programming, local to it (ie on BBC Scotland alone as opposed to current affairs programming broadcast UK-wide, including Scotland).
Read more, here, in the allmediascotland.com feature, The Media in Figures.
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MEANWHILE, The Herald’s Phil Miller today begins (here): “Scottish audiences believe BBC Scotland needs a ‘thorough reassessment’ of its news output and have questioned its in impartiality covering the independence referendum.
“Although the Audience Council Scotland, the BBC Trust’s advisory body, has welcomed the ‘strong performance’ of the BBC in Scotland this year in its annual review, the report raises a series of questions over the Corporation’s coverage of Scottish affairs.”
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BEGINS The Guardian: “[Owner] Richard Desmond is set to unveil cuts of more than £10 million at Express Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday.
“It is understood up to 100 jobs could go. Express Newspapers went on a hiring spree in 2013 as Desmond sought to develop his titles’ digital output, with numbers swelling to nearly 600.”
Read more, here.
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THIRD Force News, the newspaper of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, is seeking an editorial assistant (web and social media) – as advertised here on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board and repeated on twitter.com/allmediajobs.
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AN appeal has gone out to prospective operators of new national radio stations, by the company behind UK-wide awards celebrating the best of commercial radio.
Says Arqiva: “We’re partners in a bid to run the second national DAB multiplex. So, if you’d like to launch a new radio station for listeners across the UK, please get in touch now with an Expression of Interest.”
Read more, here.
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