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In My Opinion: Paul Tucker: What do I know? Teaching TV production
June 27, 2013
ABOUT three years ago, I was asked a question by a student that I will…
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In My Opinion: Scott Douglas: Friends of The Scotsman, three days inJune 26, 2013
In My Opinion: THE wait is over. Whether you call it advertorial, sponsored content or native...
In My Opinion: Alan Campbell: Women’s football, Germany-style, and how it could inspire BBC ScotlandJune 21, 2013
FROM a media perspective, my experience at the Stadion Essen last Saturday was a genuine...
In My Opinion: Mark Gorman: Another sad day in adlandJune 18, 2013
AS news filters out that Newhaven Communications has been snapped up by The Leith Agency,...
In My Opinion: Paul Holleran: Hall’s intervention already beginning to repair damage at BBC ScotlandJune 14, 2013
I DO derive a small bit of pleasure in being able to say, “I told...
In My Opinion: Allan Rennie: It’s not print or digital, it’s bothJune 14, 2013
MEDIA Scotland publishes the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail, along with 21 local newspapers...
In My Opinion: Derek Masterton: PR, plastic flowers, millionaire shortbread and long johnsJune 12, 2013
THERE’S a giant plastic flower in the corner of my office. It’s a six feet-tall...
In My Opinion: John Collins: Why radio shouldn’t be afraid of ‘iRadio’June 10, 2013
THERE are several reports – such as here, here and here – that, alongside some hardware...
In My Opinion: Scott Douglas: The Scotsman and ‘native advertising’June 7, 2013
SO, Scotland’s first big foray into the relatively uncharted new media waters of ‘native advertising’...
In My Opinion: Neil Braidwood: 100 years of the Professional Publishers AssociationJune 7, 2013
LAST week, PPA Scotland held a reception at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh,...
In My Opinion: Tim Blott: We should take all the doom-mongers with a ‘pinch of salt’June 7, 2013
NO-ONE talks down the newspaper industry better than the newspaper industry. It is a self-obsessed,...
In My Opinion: John Collins: Why I welcome Robin Galloway’s upcoming networked showJune 6, 2013
RADIO has a problem: its past. All of us who love the medium frame it...
In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: What the… is going on?June 5, 2013
BE warned: I am about to be officially offensive. For broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, has concluded...
In My Opinion: Maurice Smith: Which way will the tone of the referendum debate go?June 5, 2013
AS another Scottish football season closes, so its annual summer panto season is begun. Almost...
In My Opinion: Ellen Arnison: Why tabloid subs make some of the best bloggersJune 5, 2013
I SPENT quite a lot of my working life on the production side of tabloid...
In My Opinion: Courtnay McLeod: The importance of ‘snogable garlic’May 31, 2013
IT’S that time of year; the end-of-term feeling is in the air again. Soon-to-be school...
In My Opinion: Lisa-Nicole Mitchell: On the work experience trail, armed with my CVsMay 31, 2013
SORRY that this one is late. The beginning of the summer has been too tempting...
In My Opinion: Bill Magee: Think before you clickMay 31, 2013
AS we all embrace this brave new digital world, have you ever been curious about...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: God’s victory over Mammon in the comms businessMay 26, 2013
SAY what you like about religion – and of course you do – but the...
In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: The media coverage of the death of soldier, Lee RigbyMay 24, 2013
AN innocent man is knifed to death on the streets of a British city in...
