All posts in Media News

Johnston Press digital strategy director to depart
May 27, 2010

THE digital strategy director at the publishers of The Scotsman newspaper is stepping down, after...

Collier applies his craft to politics
May 27, 2010

HE used to be Scottish political editor of The Sun, so it’ll be no surprise...

Lesley Riddoch: Speech radio in Scotland ‘on its uppers’
May 26, 2010

SPEECH radio in Scotland is “on its uppers”, according to one of Scotland’s best-known radio...

The Hour to celebrate first birthday this evening
May 26, 2010

A SPECIAL, birthday edition of STV’s daytime magazine show, The Hour, is being broadcast today....

Journalist shares experience of breast cancer in new book
May 25, 2010

AN Aberdeen journalist, diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, has just had a book...

Scheme transmission postponed by legal action
May 25, 2010

A DOCUMENTARY series about families living in a large housing estate in Kilmarnock has had its...

Free forum software now available to newspaper publishers
May 25, 2010

CUTTING-edge software is being offered for free to newspaper publishers seeking to offer their readers...

Prize launched to discover next generation of essayists
May 25, 2010

Scotland’s leading literary newspaper, the Scottish Review of Books, has joined forces with Aberdeen University...

Melanie on the mend
May 25, 2010

GOOD news from The Times’ Scotland-based columnist, Melanie Reid, who broke her neck and back after...

Salway takes award for second year in a row
May 25, 2010

VERY belated congratulations to The Scotsman’s Jeff Salway. A Google search for the headlinemoney.co.uk financial journalism...

Survey reveals regular use of story sourcing services
May 24, 2010

MORE than three-quarters of journalists have sourced a story idea or comment via a ‘request...

What future Dunfermline Press?
May 24, 2010

SPECULATION from Scotland on Sunday newspaper yesterday that ‘uncertainy’ surrounds the future of Dunfermline Press,...

Corrected and almost all present
May 23, 2010

LAST week, the Sunday Herald newspaper carried a full page promotion with pictures of 44 members...

Trend for obits suits Shaw
May 23, 2010

NEWSPAPER obituaries, which had become somewhat of a dying (sic) art, are increasingly back in vogue....

CIPR Scotland launches search for ambassadors
May 21, 2010

THE Scottish division of the professional body for the public relations industry, the Chartered Institute...

Scots pair make ‘Best of Health Advertising’ shortlist
May 21, 2010

TWO Scots creative agencies have made it to the shortlist of UK-wide awards celebrating the...

Edinburgh International TV Festival unveils channel and programme-of-the-year shortlists
May 21, 2010

BBC Four, E4 and Sky1 are among the channels shortlisted in Channel of the Year...

STV launches recruitment drive to operate local websites network
May 20, 2010

A NETWORK of hyper-local websites for over 200 places across Scotland is to be launched...

Beattie appointed chair of Scottish Rugby Writers Club
May 20, 2010

BBC sports presenter, John Beattie, has been appointed chair of Scottish Rugby Writers Club. The...