REPORTS The Guardian: “[Scots comedian] Frankie Boyle will cast his caustic eye over the Scottish independence referendum on a BBC online show to be filmed by the ‘yes’ vote supporter hours after the result of the 18 September poll is revealed.
“The no holds-barred comic, who has said he is ‘all for’ an independent Scotland but predicted ‘it won’t happen’, will front a mixture of stand-up comedy with discussion about the result and its repercussions in front of a live studio audience in Glasgow.”
Read more, here.
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TAKING place today, in Edinburgh: an annual magazines conference, with several big-name speakers.
And to hear them being interviewed in advance of Magfest, organised by PPA Scotland – click here.
Among those being interviewed: Ellis Watson, chief executive at DC Thomson, and Wyatt Mitchell, creative director at The New Yorker.
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SELF-confessed ‘rabid Anglophile’, Gordon Young – editor of The Drum media and marketing magazine – explains why he is voting Yes in the upcoming Scots independence vote.
Read more, here.
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THE Courier newspaper is seeking a senior reporter – as advertised here on allmediascotland.com. Plus, it is seeking a business reporter – as advertised here.
Both ads are also featured in the allmediascotland dedicated media jobs feed, twitter.com/allmediajobs.
Plus, the Oban Times is seeking a senior reporter, to work out of its Fort William office.
Check out the vacancy, advertised here.
And that’s not all: freelance broadcast journalists are being sought by Your Radio, which serves Dumbarton, Helensburgh, Greenock, etc.
The vacancy is being advertised here.
Please do mention the site when responding to any job ads you see on it.
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JUST out, right now: the latest Scots circulation figures for national newspapers. All will be revealed in the allmediascotland feature, The Media in Figures, on Monday.
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FOR a catch-up on recent personnel changes at Romanes Media Group – including those reported, here, on Media Movers on allmediascotland – take a read, here.
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WIDELY reported: actor and director, George Clooney, is to direct a film about phone-hacking by journalists that, among other things, brought down the newspaper, the News of the World.
Says Reuters, here, the news was announced by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
The Guardian reports the story, here, while The Independent’s take can be found here.
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BEGINS The Guardian’s media pundit, Roy Greenslade: “The Herald, the Glasgow daily, has spent four days trying to live down its Monday front page story in which it reported on fears that there will be ‘absolute carnage’ outside polling stations on referendum day.”
Read more, here.
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