BEGINS pressgazette.co.uk: “This year’s British Journalism Awards have attracted a record number of entries representing every major UK news publisher and broadcaster.
“There have been more than 250 submissions for the 14 award categories – with investigation and foreign affairs journalist of the year among the most hotly-contested prizes.”
The shortlist is being announced a week on Tuesday, with the winners revealed on December 2.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Guardian’s media correspondent, Roy Greenslade: “Newsquest, the publisher of 185 newspapers across Britain [including The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times], gets very little mention in the latest earnings report by its US owner, Gannett.
“Similarly, its American newspapers don’t figure too highly in its third quarter report either. It’s all about TV now.”
Read more, here.
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ALSO in The Guardian, and this time being reported by Mark Sweney: “Richard Desmond’s Express Newspapers is understood to be planning to cut pagination for its four titles by up to 25 per cent, as part of a cost-cutting drive that has already led to about 80 staff taking voluntary redundancy.
“The publisher of the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday is seeking to cut £14m a year from its print and editorial budget.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS a website about co-operative organisations, Co-operative News: “Glasgow-based Media Co-op creates digital media and films for the third sector – and it has just reached its tenth birthday.
“As part of the celebrations, Glasgow’s International Human Rights Film Festival, Document, held a retrospective for the co-operative, selecting 20 films and clips from the last ten years.”
Read more, here.
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THE Scotsman today carries both an appreciation (by the paper’s former sports writer, Mike Aitken) and an obituary (by current sports writer, Stephen Halliday), in tribute to former chief football writer, Glenn Gibbons, whose death, aged 69, was reported yesterday.
Read Aitken’s appreciation here. And the obituary, here.
Michael Grant, in The Herald, also pays tribute, here.
Glenn’s funeral is taking place on Friday, at 9.30am at St Dominic’s Church, 21 Kirriemuir Road, Bishopbriggs, G64 1DL. It will be then followed by a service at 11.30am, at Daldowie Crematorium, Hamilton Road, Uddingston, G71 7RU.
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BEGINS The Guardian, similar to several reports elsewhere: “As the brilliant editor who steered The Washington Post’s history-making exposure of the Watergate presidential scandal, Ben Bradlee, who has died aged 93, became the most lauded and influential American journalist of his era.”
Read more, here.
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PAGE 17 of today’s Scotsman newspaper carries a selection of images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition…
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BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “The UK’s newspaper industry should have a new system of measurement that stretched multiple platforms ready for use by early 2016.
“The timetable comes after the launch of a review into current audience measurement metrics announced during the summer and a formal request for proposals (RFP) will be published on 31 October 2014 inviting research and data analytics businesses to bid to supply a new measurement system. The deadline for submissions is 5 December with a view to trialling the new system from mid-2015.”
Read more, here.
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