THE chair of the new press regulatory body, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, is speaking in Edinburgh next week, at an event open to the general public.
Sir Alan Moses will be joined by Roddy Dunlop QC to debate press freedom, newspaper editorial standards and consumer protection/redress, at an event being staged jointly by the Royal Society of Arts and the Faculty of Advocates.
IPSO recently replaced the Press Complaints Commission.
The event is on Wednesday evening and free tickets are available here.
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BEGINS a representative of the Association for Media Education in Scotland: “March was a good month for co-operation between schools and major broadcasting corporations. We had BBC’s School Report involving more than 1,000 schools (76 in Scotland) in the creation of news programmes.
And Rick Instrell continues: “We also saw the launch of Sky Academy Skills Studios in Livingston.
“This state-of-art facility will give Scottish school pupils hands-on experience of broadcast quality cameras, green screens and touchscreen edit tables in four studios.
“Teachers can choose from a menu of 20 curriculum-related topics for upper primary and secondary. Pupils will write, shoot and edit a TV report to show to parents and fellow pupils.”
Read more, here, in today’s Scotsman.
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WRITES Iain Macwhirter, in today’s Herald: “The Scots-are-crazy is a metropolitan media trope that has growing steadily recently in line with polling support for the SNP.”
Read his column, here.
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AN obituary is carried in today’s Scotsman newspaper of ‘social entrepreneur’, Brendan Murphy – who is credited with having founded, in 1981, Comment, described as “a community news magazine that covered Highland Perthshire”.
Writes the obituary’s author: “His aim was always to set up local institutions or enterprises and tiptoe away once they were safely running in the hands of the community. With Comment, he failed since he was irreplaceable.
“In pursuit of the same goal of fostering local identity, he was key in launching Heartland FM, Britain’s first volunteer-run, rural radio service that went on air from Pitlochry in March 1992.”
Read more, here.
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SCOTS actor, Ken Stott, is among the nominees in this year’s BAFTA TV Awards.
For his role in the BBC drama, The Missing, he has been named in the Supporting Actor category.
The winners will be announced on the tenth of next month.
Read more, here.
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EXECUTIVES behind some of America’s biggest cable TV channels – the channels who brought to the screen the likes of Homeland, Fargo and Louie – are to appear at this year’s Edinburgh International Television Festival.
As part of a new festival strand, US Gamechangers, the execs are Showtime president, David Nevins; FX Networks CEO, John Landgraf; and president of Discovery, Rich Ross.
Visit the festival’s website, here.
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BEGINS an announcement from BBC Scotland: “An array of acclaimed acting talent including Ciaran Hinds, Archie Panjabi and Anna Chancellor have joined the cast of BBC One drama Shetland alongside series regulars Douglas Henshall, Alison O’Donnell, Steven Robertson, Julie Graham and Mark Bonnar for the new six-part series made by ITV Studios through BBC Scotland.”
Read more, here.
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A SPIRIT of collaboration among newspapers? Check out page 13 in today’s Scotsman: a full-page advert comprising vouchers, to receive all next week, free editions of the i newspaper…
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