BEGINS this document on the Scottish Courts website: “For some time, the Court has been reviewing the practice of allowing journalists an opportunity to see complaints and indictments for note-taking purposes before cases call in court. The review was necessary because of significant concerns arising from the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to the disclosure of personal data and sensitive personal data in these documents.
“The current practice gives journalists an opportunity to attend and report on noteworthy cases; but it is now clear that the information being disclosed is excessive for this purpose.”
Read more, here.
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THE Edinburgh-based editorial and design agency, Palmer Watson, has taken what it describes as “its first step into a new field”, having produced the visual identity for a major European contemporary arts festival.
The consultancy – best known for its award-winning newspaper designs – won the pitch to provide the editorial and design concept for the 2014 Steirischer Herbst arts festival. The festival, based in Graz, Austria, attracts leading names in contemporary theatre, dance, music and visual art.
Says Palmer Watson: “[We] devised a new visual and editorial concept and applied it across the media spectrum, including web, brochures, flyers, leaflets, print supplements, stickers and posters.”
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SOME of the best-known names in the Scots marketing sector are debating against each other, in a knock-out competition taking place on Thursday.
Tickets are still available to attend Pioneering Spirit Award Showcase: World Cup Special, part of the Amplify festival, being organised by the Scots division of the Marketing Society.
The event, in Edinburgh, sees speakers each allocated a marketing case study and a few minutes to convince the audience they should progress to the next round at the expense of their opponent.
Among the speakers: Chris Pitt, representing the Marketing Society Scotland; Katrine Pearson, representing the Chartered Institute of Public Relations; and Nikki Simpson, representing the Professional Publishers Association.
The event is being staged in association with whisky brand, Cutty Sark.
For more details, click here.
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A NEWS editor is being sought by Romanes Media Group, to be based in Alloa – as advertised here on the allmediascotland jobs board and repeated on twitter.com/allmediajobs.
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A SECOND TV debate between First Minister, Alex Salmond, and Better Together leader, Alistair Darling, could be added by even more.
The pair are to debate on BBC on the 25th of this month, after appearing last week in a debate broadcast by STV.
But, says pressgazette.co.uk, there’s a clamour to have them possibly appear on Sky TV, Channel 4 and even parents forum, Mumsnet.
Read more, here.
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BIG interview in The Guardian newspaper with the Scots editor of The Sun, David Dinsmore.
Fascinating read, penned by Roy Greenslade, here.
And it includes Dinsmore’s CV, beginning at the Clydebank Post.
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BEGINS a media announcement from broadcasters, STV: “[Production arm] STV Productions has secured the television rights to the bestselling novel Elizabeth is Missing, by Emma Healey.
“Elizabeth Is Missing is being developed by STV Productions as a three-part series for TV. This is one of the projects STV Productions’ new head of drama, Sarah Brown, will develop when she takes up her role in the autumn.”
Read more, here.
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