BEGINS The Scotsman: “Staff at the BBC have voted ‘decisively’ to stage strike action in a row over job losses.
“Members of the National Union of Journalists backed industrial action by almost three to one, with 86 per cent also supporting action short of a strike.
“The union said it was withdrawing goodwill and would have ‘no choice’ but to call strikes if the dispute is not resolved.”
Read more, here. And, here, on the NUJ website. Plus here, on The Guardian website.
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BEGINS a media announcement: “As the world’s Press prepare to descend upon Scotland’s capital ahead of the independence referendum on 18 September, the City of Edinburgh Council, in partnership with Marketing Edinburgh, have announced plans to co-host a drop-in media centre at Apex International Hotel in the [city’s] Grassmarket [district].
“Designed to assist international media visiting Edinburgh and facilitate their experience within the city, the ‘This is Edinburgh Media Centre’ will be open 24/7 from Monday 15 to Friday 19 September.
“With the Scottish Parliament expecting over 600 journalists in Edinburgh to cover the referendum, the press centre is exclusively for the use of media personnel. Journalists will be able to spend time there free of charge, gaining access to hotdesks, power-points and high speed Wi-Fi, while checking papers and monitoring rolling broadcast news.”
Read more and register, here.
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FOR a quick catch-up on the outdoor advertising scene in Scotland, check out this article – here, on the website of The Drum media and marketing magazine – by Keith Lammie, regional director of Primesight.
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BEGINS The Independent newspaper, here: “Radio Times has claimed that a ‘revolution’ has taken place in the gender politics of British television with ‘more and more British women dominating the screens and airwaves both on and off screen’.
And in a top 30 ‘powerlist’ of women in British TV, Scots broadcaster, Kirsty Wark, is ranked No.16.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS a media announcement: “Last year’s debut MCM Scotland Comic Con was the largest comic convention the country has ever seen – and this year’s show is even bigger!
“Running across the whole weekend for the first time, Scotland Comic Con returns to Glasgow’s SECC on 6-7 September with a host of special guests, comic creators and other geek-tastic attractions.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the website, holdthefrontpage.co.uk: “An award-winning regional reporter who became a soldier risked life and limb to bring readers a unique inside track into the global war on terror.
“Daily Record journalist Stephen Paul Stewart was given a taste of one of the world’s bloodiest conflicts in Afghanistan when he was embedded alongside British troops as they battled the Taliban.
“But his journalistic mission to the front line ended with him swapping despatches to the Scottish daily for a deadly deployment as a combat infantryman.”
Read more, here.
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SAYS a media announcement from STV: “STV has confirmed it will launch its regionalised service for Dundee on the Freesat and Sky platforms.
“The new service will enable viewers in the Dundee area to receive all the latest local news on the satellite platforms. The service was previously only available on the Freeview platform.”
Read more, here.
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