BEGINS pressgazette.co.uk (here): “The Interception of Communications Commissioner has announced an inquiry into police use of spying powers against journalists.
“The move comes less than a month after Press Gazette launched the Save Our Sources campaign urging the Commissioner to take action after it emerged that the police had secretly grabbed the phone records of The Sun newspaper. So far more than 1,000 journalists and others signed a petition (here) directed at the Interception Commissioner.”
The story is also reported, here, on the website of The Drum media and marketing magazine.
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NOMINATIONS are being invited for a listing of the UK’s ‘most influential individuals in social media marketing’.
The invite has been issued by The Drum media and marketing magazine, for its Social Buzz Top 50.
The deadline for nominations is the 20th of this month, with the identities of the top 50 revealed on December 10.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS Jim Cassidy on pressgazette.co.uk, about Bernard Vickers, who died in August (as noted here on allmediascotland): “‘A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree… they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.’
“The words of contemporary American writer Bobbi Romans could have been written for Bernard Vickers, one of Scotland’s most successful post war newspaper editors who died in August.
“While he inherited the name from the saintly French scholar, St Bernard, he certainly didn’t inherit his monastic life style.”
Read more, here.
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COLUMNIST, Hugh Reilly, writes in The Scotsman today of the perils and pleasures of calling a radio phone-in show – here.
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