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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...

What future Dunfermline Press?
May 24, 2010

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

Trend for obits suits Shaw
May 23, 2010

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

NUJ reports ‘Marked increase’ on back of DC Thomson pay and hours proposal
May 20, 2010

THE National Union of Journalists is reporting a “marked increase” in the number of enquiries...

Staffing situation clearer at Sunday Times Scotland
May 19, 2010

IT is understood that the writers to be kept on at the Sunday Times Scotland...

Can the Scottish press be saved?
May 18, 2010

THE question is raised and the answer posed is none too encouraging. Former broadcaster, Kenneth...

Circulation cheer for Scottish quartet
May 17, 2010

FOUR national newspapers saw their year-on-year sales in Scotland increase between April last year and...

Dunfermline Press chief, Romanes, dies
May 17, 2010

THE chief executive of the Dunfermline Press Group has died, following a long illness. It...

The attraction of journalism, Sunday Times-style
May 17, 2010

IN its glossy colour magazine, The Sunday Times yesterday carried an eight-page feature – ‘Hold...

Journalists to the fore at Word Festival
May 17, 2010

JOURNALISTS were very much to the fore at one of Scotland’s most established festivals, held over...

Record office closure brings home fond memories for Findlay
May 16, 2010

THE recent closure of the last national daily newspaper office in Aberdeen has brought back...

Sales gap again narrows between top two-selling dailies
May 14, 2010

THE sales gap between the country’s two biggest-selling daily newspapers has again narrowed. Say the...

Revenue dip for Record publishers
May 13, 2010

THE publishers of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspapers have revealed a five per...

Sunday Times Scotland to be effectively shut down
May 12, 2010

ONE of Scotland’s biggest-selling newspapers is to be effectively axed, to just a handful of...

Shortlist unveiled by Scottish Student Journalism Awards
May 12, 2010

THE shortlist has been unveiled for an annual awards celebrating the best of student journalism...

Johnston Press announces further cuts plan
May 12, 2010

THE publishers of The Scotsman newspaper has intimated it is to seek to find 50...

Local and regional press awards back in business
May 12, 2010

THE best of regional newspaper journalism is to be celebrated in a resurrected awards competition...