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In My Opinion: James Aitken: Time for a Scotland-wide Channel 3 licence
May 24, 2013
LAST week, just after News at Ten on Thursday, television viewers watching ITV Border were…
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In My Opinion: John Collins: The Competition Commission, Capital and the future of a Scottish radio legendMay 21, 2013
THE Competition Commission has reported on the acquistion of GMG radio by Global Radio, the...
In My Opinion: Neil Braidwood: The Scots MagazineMay 20, 2013
SOMETHING big happened recently in Scottish publishing. One of the oldest publications in the world,...
In My Opinion: John Collins: Reflections on the latest RAJARsMay 19, 2013
THIS is one of those RAJAR surveys that defies instant spin as you have to...
In My Opinion: Craig McGill: Matt Bendoris and his first crime novelMay 17, 2013
CHIEF features writer on The Scottish Sun, Matt Bendoris has released his first crime novel,...
In My Opinion: Peter John Meiklem: The Conversation’s mix of ‘academic rigour’ and ‘journalistic flair’May 17, 2013
FRESH in the door to work in the Glasgow Caledonian University communications office, I met...
In My Opinion: Craig McGill: Cutting to the chaseMay 14, 2013
I DON’T recall Matt Bendoris writing about death by a thousand cuts, in his first...
In My Opinion: John Collins: The Sony winners? An interesting statisticMay 14, 2013
SO, the annual Sony Radio Academy Awards were held in London’s Grosvenor House Hotel last...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: The Churches and the mediaMay 14, 2013
ARCHBISHOP Philip Tartaglia appears to be one of the few churchmen in Scotland who realises...
In My Opinion: Mark Gorman: I admire the principled stand being taken on procurementMay 13, 2013
“Houston. We have a problem.” Okay, that was not quite what was uttered by Apollo...
In My Opinion: Nick Freer: Using the media to capture attention in the digital ageMay 10, 2013
AS the owner of a small public relations consultancy, I was pleased to read recently...
In My Opinion: Paul Holleran: Tony Hall can expect a classic Q&A on the banks of the River ClydeMay 3, 2013
I CAN’T remember the last time the excitement was so tangible at Pacific Quay, with...
In My Opinion: James Wilson: Teamwork at the heart of broadcasting successMay 3, 2013
THE Commonwealth Games is a big deal. It’s the third-largest sporting event in the world...
In My Opinion: Ellen Arnison: Lifting quotes from Twitter and Facebook isn’t journalismMay 2, 2013
“HERE’S some news just in.” The news channel anchor looked very grave and stuck her...
In My Opinion: David Eyre: Sharing news? This could be the year Scottish journalism carves a new futureApril 26, 2013
I THINK we’ll look back on 2013 as the year when journalism in Scotland began...
In My Opinion: Lisa-Nicole Mitchell: Term endingApril 25, 2013
SO, we are nearing the end of my third-year journey. In a couple of weeks,...
In My Opinion: John Collins: Time for speech radio to be allowed to express a political opinionApril 24, 2013
FOX News did something I really admired, the other day. President Obama had just finished...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Why templates are a pain in the tailApril 22, 2013
WE live in the age of the template – all the news that’s printed to...
In My Opinion: Moray Macdonald: The ‘engagement era’ has changes for us allApril 19, 2013
THE accelerating ‘makeover’ of society’s use of digital technology and processes has created a shift...
In My Opinion: John Collins: Don’t ignore radio in debates about the future of the mediaApril 16, 2013
SEVERAL months ago, I was at a conference on the future of Scotland’s media, post-2014....
