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In My Opinion: Peter Houston: How do you talk about good digital content?
April 2, 2015
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In My Opinion: Mike Wilson: A person says something about anotherMarch 18, 2015
THANK goodness for The Budget. Not for its content, per se, but for pushing off...
In My Opinion: Donald Leggatt: On setting up Share RadioMarch 16, 2015
LAST August, I was lying on a beach near Biarritz, contemplating my very Scottish lack of...
In My Opinion: Shaun Milne: Live TV debates have become part of the political processMarch 6, 2015
WHEN the late Ian Gow, member for Eastbourne, stood up and made a speech in...
In My Opinion: Catherine Deveney: Schools project exactly where the NUJ should beFebruary 23, 2015
EVEN as an outsider to the Highland school, it was clear to me that the silent...
In My Opinion: David Hutchison: Reflections on conference examining post-indyref Scots mediaJanuary 20, 2015
CONFERENCES can be unpredictable, particularly if the agenda is a broad one and many of the...
In My Opinion: Andrew Watson: A picture really is worth a thousand wordsJanuary 14, 2015
I HAD the privilege of working in the newspaper industry for over 40 years – firstly,...
In My Opinion: Peter Geoghegan: The media and the indyrefDecember 17, 2014
This is an edited extract from Peter Geoghegan’s ‘The People’s Referendum: Why Scotland Will Never...
In My Opinion: Lauren Pennycook: the future’s bright – the future’s localDecember 10, 2014
THE local news landscape in the UK has changed forever. Four in ten of us are...
In My Opinion: Iain Macwhirter: The indyref and New MediaDecember 8, 2014
This is an extract from ‘The Press we deserve – Unionism and the mainstream media’,...
In My Opinion: Terry Murden: The NationalNovember 24, 2014
THE launch of The National is one of those media milestones, a source of conversation that...
In My Opinion: Mike Wilson: What next for Eklipse Sports Radio?November 12, 2014
NEWS (noted here, on allmediascotland.com) that a majority shareholding is said to have been sold in...
In My Opinion: Paul Holleran: Responsible reporting on mental health, mental illness and death by suicideNovember 6, 2014
REPORTING a death by suicide is a tough gig for any journalist, but not as tough...
In My Opinion: Ian McAteer: The state of our creative nationNovember 3, 2014
This op ed first appeared on allmediascotland on October 25 2013. I WAS clearing out some...
In My Opinion: Stewart Kirkpatrick: What future, those post-indyref media projects?October 10, 2014
THREE weeks on from the independence referendum, Scotland is faced with an intriguing media divide....
In My Opinion: Joe Walton: Google Analytics for PRsOctober 3, 2014
WE live in a digital world that puts more emphasis on PR measurement. Here are...
In My Opinion: Courtnay McLeod: The blurrier, the betterSeptember 26, 2014
PERSONALISED, customised, tailor-made… it seems almost everything in today’s world is ‘just for you’ –...
In My Opinion: Maurice Smith: What of the media, post-indyref?September 19, 2014
WHAT are we, as journalists, to make of the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign?...
In My Opinion: Ellis Watson: Hope is not a strategySeptember 12, 2014
This is an extract from a speech Ellis Watson gave last week, opening the annual...
In My Opinion: Gary Ennis: Football clubs should encourage social media sharing, not ban itSeptember 5, 2014
WE live in a world of social media sharing and I think football clubs who...