TO commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the Falkirk Herald has produced a 12-page supplement outlining – where possible – the service details of every local person who is believed to have perished during the conflict – some 3,000 people.
Local historians, teachers and even the current Provost. Pat Reid, were among those who assisted Herald reporter, Scott Mcangus, compile the listing.
Finding the names was relatively straightforward, but endeavouring to attach personal details to each of them was a task stretching back a few months.
Mcangus told allmediascotland: “Since around August, we have published a story every week in the paper relating to local soldiers who fought in the war. We asked our readers to send in details of their relatives and received a great response with loads of people sending in details, pictures and memorabilia which we have used. I’ve still got some we will be using in future editions.
“All the 3,000-odd names are published on the Falkirk Community Trust website in the First World War section which was easy enough so we had all the names pretty much straight away’ however, we felt it was important to try and get as much information about those men as we could for their families and our readers.”
The supplement accompanied yesterday’s edition of the weekly newspaper.
Read more, here.
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THE editor of the magazine of the National Union of Journalists has been re-elected for a further five years in the post.
Christine Buckley had to fight off a challenge by Tim Dawson, a former vice-chair of the union’s Edinburgh Freelance branch, for the editorship of The Journalist.
Dawson is currently vice-president of the NUJ.
Buckley is quoted here, on the NUJ’s website, as saying: “I’m very proud that NUJ members have re-elected me as editor of The Journalist. The magazine is very important for keeping busy working journalists in touch with their union. I have tried to make it a professional, outward looking publication to engage as many people as possible. I look forward to continuing that.”
Dawson thanks his many supporters, here, insodoing revealing the vote: 3,003 for Buckley, 1,712 for him.
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BEGINS the website, holdthefrontpage.co.uk: “A weekly [newspaper]’s offices are set to close after management decided they required too much work to bring up to scratch.
“Staff at the Cumnock Chronicle will be relocated 30 miles away to the offices of the Ayrshire Weekly Press, in Ardrossan, in a move which will see two receptionists’ roles at risk of redundancy.
“Chronicle editor, Douglas Skelton, is also set to leave the Romanes Media Group title at the end of the year to pursure a career in writing.
“Group publishing director, Keith McIntyre, believes the move will alleviate pressure on stretched journalists.”
Read more, here.
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TERRY Murden, the former business editor of The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and Sunday Times Scotland, is about to launch a news website focused on the business, consumer and money markets and is said to be in talks with a number of potential backers.
In an announcement, he said: “I have been thinking about this for a long time. I feel the climate and appetite exists for something like this and I’m very excited about its potential. I will release further news in due course.”
Until the site is formally launched, any day now, he is operating a blog, backed by a twitter account.
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AN Edinburgh University student was last night named a winner at the Student Radio Awards.
Calum Macdonald took the title, Best Male [presenter], at the awards, which also saw his university’s radio station, FreshAir, remarkably take both gold and silver in the Best Event or Outside Broadcast category.
Read more, here.
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IT’S not the first time that The Beano comic – published by Dundee-based comics, newspapers and magazines outfit, DC Thomson – has diversified into clothing.
But it’s a first that a range – produced in collaboration with a label, N16 Vintage – has been available on the well-known online fashion store, ASOS.
Read more, here.
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ENTRIES are being invited for a media awards competition celebrating the best of internal communications in Scotland.
The Institute of Internal Communication has set a deadline of the 28th of this month for entries to its IoIC Scotland Awards.
For more details, click here.
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AN awards competition celebrating the best of radio production has issued its shortlist.
The winners of the Radio Production Awards will be announced on the 25th of this month.
Read more, here.
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THE latest interim management statement issued by STV – yesterday, as noted here on allmediascotland.com – is reported in The Herald (here) and The Scotsman (here).
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THE Aberdeen and Inverness-based PR agency, Frasermedia, has announced the appointment of four new members of staff – as noted, here, in a media release posted on allmediascotland.com.
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FOR comment on a Scottish Parliament inquiry into whether there is ‘a problem, either actual or perceived, with lobbying and, if so, how this can most effectively be addressed’, see this – here – from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (Scotland).
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ANY moment now: the latest year-on-year sales-in-Scotland figures for national newspapers… See Monday’s edition of allmediascotland.com, its Media in Figures feature…
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