All posts in In My Opinion

In My Opinion: John Collins: Why bother with media courses?
March 13, 2013

THE first thing I say when I start a new year with my HNC students...

In My Opinion: Laura Montgomery: Scottish women’s football merits not just cash but media coverage
March 8, 2013

WHILE not every sports editor has yet to fully grasp the readership potential of reporting...

In My Opinion: Courtnay McLeod: Back to the Future for Border TV?
March 7, 2013

LOCAL news is never trivial, because, in essence, that’s how most stories begin, even if...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: People who know the true value of journalism
March 3, 2013

DURING the last two weeks, thanks to Skype, I have been chatting to people from...

In My Opinion: Charles McGhee: Seeking solutions from around the world to save our newspapers
March 1, 2013

THE Paisley Daily Express may have done well to notch up an impressive sales lift...

In My Opinion: Ian MacKenzie: New talent; where next?
February 28, 2013

TOWARDS the end of next month – March 21 – will see BAFTA in Scotland...

In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: New ABC figures should carry a health warning
February 27, 2013

THEY make grim reading. Some of the circulation figures for the Scottish weeklies are so...

In My Opinion: Craig McGill: On what newspapers could have done to avoid being hit by Google
February 27, 2013

IT’S not that long ago I was arguing how advertising teams in the media weren’t...

In My Opinion: Derek Masterton: Can you trust the tabloid Press?
February 25, 2013

FRIEND or foe – can you trust the tabloid Press? Discuss. It’s hardly a new...

In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: The welcome Defamation Bill and the threat hanging over it
February 24, 2013

A COLD front is expected to move out across the country, emanating from the House...

In My Opinion: Alistair Duff: Is electronic punditry the future and should we welcome it?
February 22, 2013

MEDIA apocalypse, but when? And after death, what kind of resurrection? A new study at...

In My Opinion: Ellen Arnison: Twitter tips for journalists
February 21, 2013

IF you’re a journalist and not using twitter, then you should be. It’s a great...

In My Opinion: Mark Gorman: One year in and Edinburgh’s creative economy is ‘oxygenated’ by Creative Edinburgh
February 20, 2013

THE digital, media and creative industries are estimated to be worth £6 billion a year...

In My Opinion: John Collins: My advice for Jonathan Wall, the new 5 live controller
February 19, 2013

SO, BBC Radio 5 live has a new controller – the former deputy controller, Jonathan...

In My Opinion: Mark Gorman: Leith’s bowel cancer advert
February 18, 2013

WHEN did you last see a 30-second commercial filmed entirely in the ‘cludgie’ and without...

In My Opinion: Paul Holleran: From today’s strike action at BBC Scotland
February 18, 2013

MAKING placards on a Friday afternoon isn’t an usual pastime for NUJ staff, but it...

In My Opinion: Nick Clayton: How I wasted my working life on social networks
February 15, 2013

WHEN I moved to Ibiza nearly nine years ago, I thought online social networking was...

In My Opinion: Neil Braidwood: Is there a market for magazines aimed at teenage girls?
February 14, 2013

THIS month, fashion ‘bible’, Vogue magazine, announced it would be soon launching an UK teenage...

In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Reporting the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
February 11, 2013

I DON’T want to say, ‘I told you so’, but I did warn you in...