ENTRIES are being invited for a media competition celebrating the best of student journalism in Scotland.
The annual Scottish Student Journalism Awards are taking place in Glasgow on May 28 (as noted here on a dedicated twitter feed), and the deadline for entries has been set for the third of next month.
The competition is being run by students from Glasgow Clyde College, with allmediascotland among its several sponsors.
Categories include News Story of the Year, Scoop of the Year, Arts and Entertainment Story of the Year and Column of the Year.
For more details, click here.
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BEGINS The Guardian’s media commentator, Roy Greenslade: “I am sure that during 2015 we will witness more regional newspaper publishers giving up on print issues in favour of going digital-only.
“Several weeklies have made that move already, but could we be on the verge of regional dailies taking the plunge?
“I note that a former editor of the Scotsman, John McGurk, has suggested his old paper should give up its ink-on-paper version [as noted, here, on allmediascotland]. On Scot-Buzz, a website he co-edits, he argues that it’s time to put the Scotsman ‘out of its misery’.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the website of the Scottish Newspaper Society: “Well over 100 media people and politicians gathered at the Scottish Parliament last night for a reception to celebrate 100 years of the Scottish newspaper industry’s trade association.
“Editors, managers, journalists, agencies, MSPs and one or two political fixers gathered in the members’ dining room for a short video and an election preview with a panel of senior editors but above all to meet up and discuss mutual interests. The event was organised in partnership with Chivas Brothers and hosted by Shetland MSP Tavish Scott.”
Read more, here. View a photo gallery, here.
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BEGINS The Scotsman’s Shan Ross “An Outlander walking tour of locations in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile is being launched to coincide with the hit fantasy TV show’s release in the UK.
“The tour features a number of locations visited by Diana Gabaldon’s fictional time-travellers characters Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser in 1745 as they join the prince as he holds court at the Palace of Holyroodhouse after his troops marched into the city.”
Read more, here.
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THE shortlist for this year’s Celtic Media Awards – a celebration of broadcasting, online, etc from the ‘Celtic’ nations and regions – has just been announced.
Part of the Celtic Media Festival – this year taking place in Inverness, next month – the shortlist includes several Scots entries.
Read more, here. And here, as part of the long-running allmediascotland.com Media Awards feature.
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JUST out: the latest circulation figures in Scotland for national newspapers.
Find out more, on Monday, including here, the feature, The Media in Figures.
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