CLOSER working relations between the three newspaper titles that make up The Scotsman Publications Ltd (TSPL) are understood to be at the heart of an appointment involving a former editor of the Yorkshire Post.
Peter Charlton has been appointed a consultant to work with the editors of The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and Edinburgh Evening News newspapers.
He has been assigned the role by TSPL publishers, Johnston Press, which also owns the Yorkshire Post.
Indeed, Charlton is also a former editorial director of the Yorkshire division of Johnston Press.
In July, it was announced (as reported here on allmediascotland.com) that Helen Oldham, the managing director of the Yorkshire division of Johnston Press, was having TSPL added to her portfolio.
The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday are both edited by Ian Stewart; the Edinburgh Evening News is edited by Frank O’Donnell.
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A LONG-awaited TV drama is among the many highlights of the forthcoming autumn season to be screened on the Gaelic language TV channel, BBC ALBA.
At a launch yesterday of its upcoming season, BBC ALBA revealed that Bannan – the channel’s first-ever commissioned original drama – is set to air later this month.
The launch included Bannan producer, Chris Young, arguably best known as the producer on the hit comedy series, The Inbetweeners.
Read more, here.
The story commands most of page 14 in today’s Scotsman (here) and a large chunk of The Herald’s page three (here).
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BEGINS an announcement from the BBC media centre: “The hotly-contested BBC Audio Drama Awards return for a fourth year to celebrate the exceptional talent, originality and vibrancy of audio drama…”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “Media Scotland, the Scottish Daily Mail, Edinburgh Evening News and News UK are just some of the publishers making the shortlist of the Scottish Creative Awards four new categories launched in association with the Scottish Newspaper Society.
“The new categories, which celebrate marketing excellence in newspapers, were judged by an expert panel of Carat Scotland CEO, Sue Holloway; PHD UK managing partner, Rob Nichol; head of marketing at VisitScotland, Helen Campbell; and Steven Walker, STV’s director of corporate development.”
Read more, here.
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A FORMER editor of The Scotsman – who is marking his fifth year as editor of the Belfast Telegraph – is quoted, in an interview in his own newspaper, as saying: “There is a lot of noise about newspaper competition and who sells what to whom but I never really pay any heed to it. I honestly don’t spend a single minute thinking about other newspapers.”
Reports pressgazette.co.uk (here), Mike Gilson is also quoted hailing three million unique users, during July, of his paper’s website as “a record for a news organisation of our size, in a country our size”.
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ALSO reports pressgazette.co.uk: “The Herald in Glasgow has reported how a story about a footballer assaulting his wife’s lover has been subject to a successful ‘right to be forgotten’ request.”
Read more, here.
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WRITES Chris Boffey – a former news editor of The Observer, Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Mirror – on the website of The Drum media and marketing magazine (here): “Fleet Street must also realise that by demonising Alex Salmond and the yes campaign they are playing into his hands. Us against the world. And speaking of the world, does anyone outside the UK care what happens on 18 September?”
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INSTEAD of its usual two-ish pages, the letters section in The Scotsman today runs to six – in a ‘referendum special’.
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A NEW iPhone model has been launched, by Apple – along with the company’s first-ever ‘smartwatch’.
Read all about it, here (in The Drum media marketing magazine), here (in The Scotsman) and here (in the Telegraph).
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