ENTRIES are being invited by a media awards competition celebrating the best of internal communications.
The competition – UK-wide – is being organised by the Institute of Internal Communications, and has a deadline of the 30th of this month for entries.
The categories up for grabs include In-house Team (corporate) and Digital Innovator. The awards ceremony is on November 13.
A separate Scotland-only competition will be issuing its call for entries later this year.
For more information, read here.
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FOLLOWING news last week of the death of a former editor of the Daily Record, the Telegraph is carrying an obituary.
Bernard Vickers was aged 82 – as reported on allmediascotland, here. The Telegraph obit can be read, here.
It is understood his funeral is taking place next Monday at Guildford Crematorium, at 1545.
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BEGINS The Herald (here): “Between trying to follow the latest episode of Doctor Who on television while glancing occasionally at a football match on their iPad, tech-savvy adults may not have the brain power to cope with a new buzz phrase.
“But if they do, they might like to know that in watching two live programmes at once they are ‘programme packing’ – and according to a new poll, Scots are more likely than anyone else in the UK to do it.”
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A SENIOR news reporter is being sought by The Press and Journal newspaper, as advertised here on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board and also repeated on the twitter feed, allmediajobs.
Please, when replying to any job adverts you see on the site, say where you spotted it.
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REPORTS STV, here on its website: “STV has unveiled the line-up for its second live debate on the independence referendum.
“Yes or No – The Debate will be broadcast [tomorrow] between 8pm and 10pm on STV and ITV Border.
“Presented by STV’s political editor Bernard Ponsonby, the debate will be held in The Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh and take an American-style ‘town hall’ format.”
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BEGINS The Scotsman, on Saturday: “Tributes were paid yesterday to the artist who drew Beano favourite Minnie the Minx for more than 40 years, who has passed away aged 82. Jim Petrie, from Kirriemuir, Angus, drew more than 2,000 strips of Minnie the Minx in The Beano.”
Read more, here.
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WRITES Iain Macwhirter, in yesterday’s Sunday Herald: “Better Together still runs a superior media campaign, even if it lacks colour and popular engagement. It has a grid, if nothing else, and works closely with its friends in the press to ensure the negative messages hit home – which explains why the days after the debate were dominated not by Darling’s performance but by a letter from unionist businessmen and then a speech from the football commentator, Archie Macpherson.
“Yes should have been more proactive, perhaps sending a Jarrow March of young people on the Work Programme to pursue Darling; issuing an open letter from NHS consultants; getting the BMJ to condemn Coalition health reforms as ‘madness’. As Labour discovered in the early 1990s when it faced a similar media lock-out, there is no point complaining, you just have to come up with stories that force alternative views onto the agenda. This requires close personal contact with journalists in unsympathetic newspapers.”
Read more, here.
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BEGAN The Scotsman, on Friday, following a pre-football match press conference earlier that day, at Rangers FC: “Rangers manager, Ally McCoist, has asked for more respect from certain members of the Scottish media after a tense press conference at Ibrox on Friday morning.”
Read more, here.
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ON Thursday, allmediascotland.com reported the Sunday Herald enjoying a sales increase, in marked contrast to all other main regional newspapers in Scotland.
Yesterday, the paper itself was saying it wasn’t just a Scotland-wide success, but a GB-wide one.
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THE popular TV show, the Antiques Roadshow, is returning to Glasgow for the first time in eight years – as reported in The Herald today.
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