A CO-founder of allmediascotland.com is launching his latest book later today.
Alex Bell – who has more recently been a Special Adviser to First Minister, Alex Salmond, and has been a columnist on, among others, The Herald newspaper – is the author of Peak Water, published five years ago.
And today, in Edinburgh, he launches The People We Could Be.
Says a blurb on the website of publishers, Luath Press: “Considering both Scottish independence from Britain and UK independence from the European Union, Alexander Bell brings a much-needed global perspective to the debate.”
The launch is open to the general public, part of a ‘referendum festival’ being hosted this week by Luath.
For more details, click here.
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CARTOONS inspired by the brief, Should Scotland be an independent country?, are to be exhibited in Glasgow, from Friday until the day after the independence referendum vote.
The exhibition – at Leiper Fine Art and supported by the National Union of Journalists – is being organised by the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio and is being staged until the 19th of next month.
For more details, click here.
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INTERESTING read – from the week before last, on the website, newsnetscotland.com – that has the heading, ‘The [Scots] media has abandoned us, so we should now abandon them’.
Read more, here.
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ANDREW Jaspan is, among other things, a former editor of The Scotsman and founding editor of the Sunday Herald.
And he is the driving force behind The Conversation, a news and comment website that marries academic work with journalism and which is the subject of a feature, here, in The Observer.
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BEGINS Ian Burrell, in The Independent newspaper today: “Between attending master classes on hit shows such as Game of Thrones and Gogglebox, the power players of British television should ask themselves some serious questions when they gather to schmooze in Scotland [at the Edinburgh International Television Festival] this week.”
Read more, here.
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VARIOUS reports about the US TV series, Outlander, set and filmed in Scotland, including a review by Siobhan Synnot, in today’s Scotsman – here.
Yesterday, in the Sunday Herald, Judith Duffy began (here): The makers of the TV series Outlander – the cult time-travelling Scottish bodice-ripper – have confirmed they are in talks with broadcasters and internet streaming platforms to find the ‘right home’ for the show to be viewed in Scotland and the rest of the UK.”
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AND Brian Ferguson, in The Scotsman, writes today: “There is a fair degree of pressure on the Scottish Government and its agencies to make a strong commitment to the concept [of a Scots film studio] within the next few weeks.”
Read more, here.
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