BEGINS STV: “Scotland is falling behind other parts of the UK and losing out on major television and film productions because of a lack of leadership in the industry, MSPs have been told.
“Glasgow was once poised to become the second centre for production outside London, but has slipped to fourth or fifth place due to inaction, industry representatives said.”
Read more, here.
And here (BBC), here (The Scotsman) and here (The Herald).
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THE website of the Scottish Newspaper Society has been revamped, announced, in part, by a couple of must-read blogs.
Director of the SNS, John McLellan – former editor of The Scotsman – writes about confidentiality being a bedrock of journalism, amid fears over police accessing phone records.
His blog can be read here.
The other blog (here) is by well-known lawyer, Campbell Dean, and headed: ‘Why social media needs a health warning’.
Visit the site, here.
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REPORTS a website dedicated to science fiction, the DVD of a TV series largely filmed in Scotland is to be released early next month.
Says www.threeifbyspace.net, Outlander is to be available in DVD format from the ninth of next month, with a special collector’s version out on March 3.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the website, journalism.co.uk: “One of Europe’s largest magazine publishers has warned that the media industry’s shift to digital is being ‘hurt’ – because of overly complicated rules on tax.
“Jens Henneberg, editorial director at Bonnier Publications in Denmark, told the Future Media Lab conference in Brussels that a confusing mix of different VAT rules on digital products across different EU member states was putting up ‘a big obstacle that has to be addressed’ – and that finding a solution was ‘critical’.
“Many EU member states have preferential VAT rates for the printed press. At the moment, a newspaper publisher in France who sells a physical copy in a newsagent pays 2.1 per cent. But most digital products that they sell there are taxed at 20 per cent. This becomes complicated when a publisher sells a bundled print-digital subscription.”
Read more, here.
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FASCINATING read by ‘radio futurologist’, James Cridland, on media.info, under the heading, ‘Streaming overtakes radio use for US teens: but UK fares better’.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the website, radiotoday.co.uk: “[Broadcasting regulator] Ofcom has started a consultation on the regulation of music in local analogue commercial radio formats.
“The radio regulator is wanting opinions from the industry to see if there should be a) No change to formats, b) Simplification of the formats of stations playing ‘mainstream popular music’ or c) Ofcom could allow licensees to request to change the music element of their format to be either genre-led or audience-led.”
Read more, here.
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SCOTS actor, David Tennant, was the recipient of a Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards last night.
For details of all the winners, click here.
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SO, it appears to be back. The Sun’s Page 3 today carries an ‘apology’ on behalf of print and broadcast journalist for writing and talking about the seeming demise of its topless model pics: “Further to recent reports in all other media outlets, we would like to clarify that on Page 3 of today’s Sun is a picture of Nicole, 22, from Bournemouth.
“We would like to apologise on behalf of the print and broadcast journalists who have spent the last two days talking and writing about us.”
Among the various reactions, read here, in The Daily Telegraph.
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