BEGINS The Guardian: “Richard Desmond is planning 30 per cent staff cuts – about 200 posts – at Express Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday.
“The publisher is seeking to make the cuts across all print and editorial departments in London, Broughton and its Scottish office.”
Read more, here.
Among those reporting the story is pressgazette.co.uk.
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IT is 20 years since the now defunct Edinburgh-based advertising creative agency, 1576, was founded, and a party is taking place to mark the occasion.
1576 grew to become one of the best-known and regarded agencies of its type in Scotland, but was eventually to close six years ago.
And former clients, members of staff, etc are invited to attend the party, taking place on the first of September.
For more details, click here.
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AN absolutely stunning opening ceremony to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last night is magnificently captured in today’s national newspapers, including The Scotsman emblazoning: ‘Pure dead brilliant’.
Check out some of today’s front pages, here.
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BEGINS an announcement issued by its organisers: “The 39th annual Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival powered by YouTube today announces this year’s full schedule of sessions.
“Taking place from Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd August in Edinburgh, the three-day festival features a line-up of sessions that focus on the year’s most successful and innovative shows and considers the wider issues that the industry continues to face. The festival’s theme this year is ‘the business of creativity’, exploring the impact of the unprecedented consolidation of recent months, including the BBC’s plans for a radical restructure in BBC: the new Superindie?”
Read more, here.
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THE August issue of The Scots Magazine is to focus on the Scottish Referendum, including comment from First Minister, Alex Salmond, and Better Together spokesperson, Alistair Darling.
It goes on sale today, with the magazine’s editor, Robert Wight, saying, in a media announcement issued by publishers, DC Thomson: “The media is saturated with facts and figures presented by both sides of the argument and so we wanted to offer The Scots Mag readers something more.”
Read more, here.
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THE allmediascotland.com media jobs board is currently running details of 11 vacancies, including a senior reporter post in Fort William, for The Oban Times, and a senior digital editor role at ICAS.
Check all ten out, here.
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AND an account manager is being sought by the PR agency, The BIG Partnership, to be based in Aberdeen.
The vacancy is being advertised here on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board. And it’s being repeated on twitter.com/allmediajobs.
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THE University of Glasgow is one of four universities taking part in an online learning project, in association with the BBC, about World War One.
Says the BBC (here): “This year has seen the start of four years of commemoration of the centenary of World War One – as part of this commemoration, a number of the UK’s leading universities have been developing online courses which explore themes around the war that changed everything. For the BBC it offered the perfect opportunity to explore the value we could add as a content partner.
“We are working with universities to support the formal learning aspects of the course with a range of supporting material – content in production at the moment includes curated audio and video clips for the archive, audio slideshows and articles written by our world-leading news correspondents. The BBC will also look to engage with course learners by driving debate moments and conversations across social media and online.”
The other universities are Birmingham, Leeds and The Open University.
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TICKETS have gone on sale for an annual conference about the radio industry.
The Radio Festival is taking place in Salford between October 13 and 15.
Read more, here.
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