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Your noon briefing: Commissioning editor – comics, Original 106, etc
July 31, 2015
IT feels like an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; certainly a chance that doesn’t come around very often….
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Your Noon Briefing: BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals, RTS Student TV Awards, etcJuly 30, 2015
AN announcement from the BBC begins: “An eclectic mix of great names – including Paul Merton, Joanne...
Your Noon Briefing: Paisley Daily Express, STV and the Edinburgh Festivals, etcJuly 28, 2015
BEGINS pressgazette.co.uk: “The editor and deputy editor of the Paisley Daily Express, Scotland’s smallest daily...
Wanted: Trainee reporterJuly 26, 2015
A TRAINEE reporter is being sought by the Dundee-based Evening Telegraph newspaper. The vacancy is...
Wanted: Newspaper sales directorJuly 25, 2015
THE Oban Times Group is seeking a newspaper sales director, as advertised here, on the...
Your Noon Briefing: Photojournalism exhibitions, Cello Group, etcJuly 22, 2015
TWO exhibitions, each celebrating photojournalism, are being staged in Edinburgh. From today until the 22nd...
Your Noon Briefing: NCTJ qualifications, Gordon Bannerman, etcJuly 21, 2015
BEGINS the chair of the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ): “The good...
The Media in Figures: Job destinations of NCTJ Diploma in Journalism graduatesJuly 21, 2015
THE vast majority of graduates who have gained a Diploma in Journalism from the National Council for the...
Your Noon Briefing: Scottish Broadcasting Corporation?, creative industries inquiry, etcJuly 20, 2015
A SCOTTISH Broadcasting Corporation, devolved from the BBC…? It was the subject of The National’s top...
Your Noon Briefing: BBC Green Paper, Magfest, etcJuly 17, 2015
THE Culture Secretary at Westminster, John Whittingdale, yesterday launched a Green Paper, to consult on...
Your Noon Briefing: Heraldscotland revamp, IPA Bellwether Report, etcJuly 16, 2015
THE website of The Herald and Sunday Herald newspapers has undergone an attractive revamp. Says...
Your Noon Briefing: BBC annual report (more), Jim Spence, etcJuly 15, 2015
THE headline on the front page of The Scotsman reads: ‘BBC bosses are urged to...
Your Noon Briefing: BBC Scotland annual report, West Highland Free Press, etcJuly 14, 2015
SAYS the BBC, in an announcement issued this morning: “The referendum on [Scots] independence and...
Media Awards: PPA Awards, winners 2015July 14, 2015
GLASGOW-headquartered The Drum media and marketing magazine has been named a winner at an UK-wide...
Your Noon Briefing: Doug Corrance, another Scots sales increase for The Times, etcJuly 13, 2015
EDINBURGH-based photographer, Doug Corrance, is among a group of photographers being showcased in an exhibition being...
The Media in Figures: National newspaper sales in ScotlandJuly 13, 2015
FOR the sixth, consecutive month, the year-on-year circulation in Scotland of The Times newspaper has...
Your Noon Briefing: Endell Laird, ‘flowering’ of new Scots websites, etcJuly 10, 2015
HE is widely recognised as having overseen the Daily Record newspaper during its pomp. Endell...
In My Opinion: Neil Braidwood: Scotland’s magazines sectorJuly 6, 2015
I HAVE been involved with the Scottish branch of the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) for...
Your Noon Briefing: IPSO upholds complaint from First Minister, The Ferret, etcJuly 6, 2015
BEGINS an announcement issued by the press watchdog, the Independent Press Standards Organisation: “In a...
Your Noon Briefing: Job cuts announced at the BBC, young adults and TV, etcJuly 3, 2015
BEGINNING on its front page and developing on its 11th, The Scotsman is among those...