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In My Opinion: David Sinclair: One week on from the ‘McCluskey Report’
March 22, 2013
WHEN the ‘McCluskey Report’ on regulation of the media in Scotland was published a week…
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In My Opinion: Alana Atkinson: When it’s what you don’t say that mattersMarch 15, 2013
IT’S a sad fact that around two people take their own lives every day in...
In My Opinion: Laura Montgomery: Scottish women’s football merits not just cash but media coverageMarch 8, 2013
WHILE not every sports editor has yet to fully grasp the readership potential of reporting...
In My Opinion: Charles McGhee: Seeking solutions from around the world to save our newspapersMarch 1, 2013
THE Paisley Daily Express may have done well to notch up an impressive sales lift...
In My Opinion: Alistair Duff: Is electronic punditry the future and should we welcome it?February 22, 2013
MEDIA apocalypse, but when? And after death, what kind of resurrection? A new study at...
In My Opinion: Nick Clayton: How I wasted my working life on social networksFebruary 15, 2013
WHEN I moved to Ibiza nearly nine years ago, I thought online social networking was...
In My Opinion: Ken Symon: A ‘Herlad’ writesFebruary 8, 2013
I HAVE had a lifelong relationship with The Herald. It was the newspaper that my...
In My Opinion: Iain S Bruce: This is not a drill. The urgent need for transparency in our journalismFebruary 1, 2013
THIS just in: Journalism is a fundamentally arrogant, self-obsessed industry too wrapped up in its...
In My Opinion: Martin Little: It’s called Aberdeen, a beacon of hope for local papersJanuary 25, 2013
AS February approaches, local newspaper editors are bracing themselves for the public exhibition that are...
In My Opinion: Jeff Zycinski: Tune in; you might just like what you hearJanuary 18, 2013
LAST week, the prominent Scots historian, Professor Tom Devine, called for a shake-up of BBC...
In My Opinion: Kenny Kemp: We need media investigations more than ever beforeJanuary 11, 2013
A JOURNALIST colleague thought he’d won the lottery when he joined The Sun as a...
In My Opinion: Andrew Collier: Time for media outlets to protect their own journalists from online abuseJanuary 4, 2013
SEVERAL years ago, I interviewed Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire and famously the...
In My Opinion: Richard Walker: Don’t believe a word of it; the Press is not risk averseDecember 28, 2012
IN the current, post-Leveson climate, the problem with comments about the Press supposedly doing its...
In My Opinion: Derek Masterton: ‘Tis the season to be jolly?December 21, 2012
‘TIS the season to be jolly – but not, alas, it appears, in newspaperland. The...
In My Opinion: Pete Murray: On the job cuts at BBC ScotlandDecember 14, 2012
HAVING cold-shouldered MSPs for weeks, senior BBC executives have now agreed – possibly under pressure...
In My Opinion: Paul Wood: Small newspapers can be beautifulDecember 7, 2012
IT has been three years since the West Highland Free Press was taken over by...
In My Opinion: John McLellan: Why diplomacy is key to the Leveson processNovember 30, 2012
YOU won’t have to go far to find those who believe Lord Leveson’s plan to...
In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Leveson – what might we expect?November 23, 2012
THIS time next week, we could all be on our way to being shackled by...
In My Opinion: Robert Beveridge: Give BBC Scotland more freedomNovember 16, 2012
THE chair of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, states that the BBC needs a radical structural...
In My Opinion: Magnus Linklater: Scotland needs a national (online) newspaperNovember 9, 2012
BACK in the days when Arnold Kemp was editing The Herald, and I was at...
