WIDELY reported and neatly summed on the front page of today’s Scotsman newspaper (here): “Nationalists have hit out at plans which would freeze them out of a series of flagship televised leaders’ debates during next year’s UK general election campaign – but would include Ukip’s Nigel Farage.
“The prospect of a legal challenge is now looming, amid warnings that joint proposals from the BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4 fail to reflect the “truly unique situation” of post-referendum Scotland.”
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AN Edinburgh-based PR agency has retained the UK-wide public relations brief for energy giants, ScottishPower – as announced here, in a media release posted on allmediascotland.com by Stripe Communications.
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WRITES former BBC Radio Scotland presenter, Derek Bateman, on his blog: “The closeness between the executive level of journalism and the British state is incestuous and dangerous and don’t think the on-screen lot are any better.”
Read more, here.
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THE stakes have been raised in the two-person race for the editorship of the magazine for members of the National Union of Journalists.
The current editor, Christine Buckley, is being challenged by Tim Dawson – a former vice-chair of the union’s Edinburgh Freelance branch – for the post, which is full-time and has a term of five years.
Members are being currently balloted, with the deadline for the postal votes being the fifth of next month.
And on pressgazette.co.uk, Dawson goes on the attack.
Read more, here.
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THE relationship between branded content (aka ‘native advertising’) and journalism in newspapers is explored by a Cardiff University academic, in a fascinating read, here.
John Jewell is director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.
And his article is to be found on the website that seeks to bring academic writing to a wider public: The Conversation.
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FASCINATING read by The Independent’s Ian Burrell on podcasting, as the ‘technology’ reaches its tenth birthday.
Does podcasting have a bright future? Perhaps, yes.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS pressgazette.co.uk – here: “The Home Office has said that measures could be in place before Christmas to stop police spying on the phone records of law-abiding journalists.
“The news comes a month after Press Gazette launched the Save Our Sources campaign…”
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