WITH the exception of The Independent on Sunday, every daily and Sunday national newspaper widely available in Scotland experienced a drop in their sales in the country, between July last year and last month.
Says the Audit Bureau of Circulations, The Independent on Sunday saw its year-on-year sales in Scotland figure increase by 3.5 per cent, from an average 5,350 during July last year to an average 5,539 last month.
Read more, here.
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MEANWHILE, The Guardian’s media commentator, Roy Greenslade, has been doing a bit of arithmetic.
And by including The Scottish Sun and the Scottish Daily Mail in his calculations, he concludes: “So, in total, the 11 ‘exported’ English papers sold 504,967 copies a day in Scotland in July. A year ago, the total was 553,468, with every title having lost sales over the 12 months.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the BBC, online, here: “Alistair Darling, the leader of the Better Together campaign, says he expects to debate with Alex Salmond again before the end of the month.
“The former Labour chancellor said the format and venue for the debate, to be hosted by the BBC, was still to be decided but the two sides had agreed on 25 August as the date.”
The story appears also appears elsewhere, including in the Express (here) and the Sunday Herald (here).
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BEGINS Brian Ferguson, in Saturday’s edition of The Scotsman: “Hollywood actor, Brian Cox, one of the leading cultural voices in favour of Scottish independence, has spoken out against the prospect of Scotland having a separate state-funded broadcaster.”
Read more, here.
And today, Ferguson argues for more TV coverage of the Edinburgh Festivals – here.
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STAYING with the indy theme, the well-known writer, musician, etc, Pat Kane, is quoted – in the Sunday Herald, yesterday – as saying: “I think it’s been a masterful top-down job [a ‘spectacle of scepticism’], led by friends of the British establishment, pliant media and a state broadcaster that should somewhat hang its head in shame in terms of its approach to the spinning and shading stories to unravel the plausibility of independence.”
Read Paul Hutcheon’s interview with him, here.
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AND Paul Hutcheon also writes about a story run by the Sunday Herald sister title, The Herald, which faces having to be removed from online searches under “Europe’s controversial ‘right to be forgotten’ law”.
Read more, here.
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SAYS a media announcement issued by broadcasters, STV: “STV has received an unreserved apology from online video partner, Brightcove, after some viewers watching Tuesday night’s referendum debate were unable to access the online stream.
“STV’s leaders’ debate between First Minister Alex Salmond and leader of Better Together Alistair Darling was the best performing political debate in Scotland for over ten years.”
Read more, here, in a STV news story.
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