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In My Opinion: Courtnay McLeod: Media training? As hard as we make it
April 15, 2013
IT had the potential to feel like a wake, with a death certificate citing numerous…
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In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: On the issue of taking risks in pursuit of a storyApril 14, 2013
TOMORROW, the BBC is scheduled to screen a Panorama report by John Sweeney, on North...
In My Opinion: John Collins: On Scotland’s ‘meagre’ showing in the Sony Awards shortlistApril 12, 2013
THE nominations were announced this week for the annual Sony Radio Awards Awards. These are...
In My Opinion: Tristan Stewart-Robertson: Time for PR comments to come from named people?April 12, 2013
WHO, in today’s world of openness and lack of privacy, deserves anonymity? Rape victims? Of...
In My Opinion: Neil Braidwood: Magazine internships, my own and at CMYKApril 11, 2013
WITH Hilary Devey, of Dragons’ Den, heading up The Intern on Channel 4 this month,...
In My Opinion: Scott Douglas: When is an advertorial not an advertorial? When it’s sponsored contentApril 7, 2013
GOTTA love this change stuff, eh? We’re no longer writers or story-tellers, we’re now content...
In My Opinion: Keith Forbes: Good design is rarely about ‘quick ideas’April 5, 2013
DON Draper reclines on his soft pad office chair, knocks back a large Canadian Club...
In My Opinion: Courtnay McLeod: Getting ready for next week’s Future of the Media conferenceApril 4, 2013
TALKING at a conference always sounds straight-forward: stand up, talk, sit down, cross your fingers...
In My Opinion: Lisa-Nicole Mitchell: A byline on a story close to my heartApril 4, 2013
IT has been a very busy couple of months: with birthdays, deadlines and, well, the...
In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Never mind, there’s sure to be another regulator along in a minuteApril 2, 2013
YOU wait ages for a regulator to come along and then three come along at...
In My Opinion: Scott Douglas: Don’t believe the hypeApril 2, 2013
GET rich quick. Look ten years younger with one, simple trick. Develop rock hard abs...
In My Opinion: Julian Calvert: Changing face of the newsroom widening the gap between journalists and their audiencesMarch 29, 2013
“THE newsroom was a huge, dingy place, apparently full of huge, dingy men.” That’s how...
In My Opinion: Paul Holleran: The strike action at BBC ScotlandMarch 28, 2013
I ARRIVED at BBC Pacific Quay seconds before the doors opened and the scene quickly...
In My Opinion: Scott Douglas: ScotRail were right to reject TV documentary inviteMarch 24, 2013
TRAIN operator, ScotRail, has just been involved in a wee case study of damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-don’t media...
In My Opinion: David Sinclair: One week on from the ‘McCluskey Report’March 22, 2013
WHEN the ‘McCluskey Report’ on regulation of the media in Scotland was published a week...
In My Opinion: John Collins: Digital radio stations and their scrolling textMarch 21, 2013
LISTENING to radio via DAB (digital audio broadcasting) is a wonderful thing because as well...
In My Opinion: Mark Gorman: Ominous signs from the Scottish Government marketing frameworkMarch 19, 2013
IF reports are true, then some of the best-known names in Scottish marketing – such...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Religion – a big Scottish story for the next decade or more?March 18, 2013
RELIGIOUS affairs correspondents, who needs them? Little did Scotland’s newspapers think they would need to...
In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: ‘McLeveson’ has overtaken LevesonMarch 15, 2013
THE ‘son of Leveson’ has overtaken its parent. The report from the ‘Expert Group on...
In My Opinion: Alana Atkinson: When it’s what you don’t say that mattersMarch 15, 2013
IT’S a sad fact that around two people take their own lives every day in...
