BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “Incoming Creative Scotland chief, Richard Findlay, has called on the BBC to build bridges with the SNP after relations between the two organisations deteriorated during the fractious debate over Scottish independence.”
Read more, here.
The story is also carried in The Times.
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BEGINS The Herald: “Live broadcasts of English Premier League games at 3pm on Saturday afternoon must not be shown north of the border for the sake of the Scottish game, an MP is to warn.
“Dunfermline & West Fife MP Thomas Docherty will demand that the media regulator, Ofcom, rule out any proposal to show the matches live in Scotland.”
Read more, here.
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AND again begins The Herald: “Readers of The Herald helped raise a total of £14,100 to support vital child protection work in our annual Christmas appeal.
The total, which includes Gift Aid, was donated direct and through the proceeds of our charity calendar and will go towards work by NSPCC Scotland across the country.”
Read more, here.
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THE Edinburgh Freelance branch of the National Union of Journalists has elected an almost unchanged line-up of office-bearers from last year.
At its annual general meeting – held last night – the branch did, however, choose Paul Cockburn to take the training brief (succeeding Kay Smith, who has stood down) and Bob Smyth to take welfare (previously vacant).
The office-bearers list now reads: chair: Joyce McMillan, vice-chair: Thom Dibdin, secretary: Mark Fisher; membership secretary: Andy Moore, treasurer: Joyce McMillan, training: Bob Smyth, Edinburgh Trade Union Council rep: Simon Barrow, welfare: Paul Cockburn, student rep: John Hewitt Jones, auditor one: Simon Barrow and auditor two: Rob Edwards.
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LOTS and lots of coverage this morning – including a phone-in on BBC Radio 5 live – about The Sun’s ‘Page 3′ and its photos of topless women, amid speculation that the practice is coming to an end…
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