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In My Opinion: Samantha McKay-Challen: Content is no longer ‘King’
November 2, 2012
IS it just me, or is it far more difficult to secure media coverage for…
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In My Opinion: Emma Crichton: University or an uncertain jobs market?October 26, 2012
IN less than a year, I will be hopefully graduating with a HND in Practical...
In My Opinion: Kathleen Nutt: On combining a career as a freelance journalist with motherhoodOctober 19, 2012
IT wasn’t a hugely difficult decision to return to work after having twins last year. Like...
In My Opinion: Murray Calder: Why public sector procurement reform can’t come soon enough for Scottish marketing servicesOctober 12, 2012
I’VE lived and worked in Scotland all my life. I feel both privileged and proud...
In My Opinion: Tim Dawson: How journalists can help themselvesOctober 5, 2012
I DOUBT there is a journalist alive today who has not, at some point, wished...
In My Opinion: David Hutchison: Bumpy ride to the referendum?September 28, 2012
AS the Scottish and UK governments edge towards an agreement on the arrangements for the...
In My Opinion: John McLellan: Reflections from the ‘other side of the fence’September 21, 2012
IT wasn’t exactly a baptism of fire, but it was a baptism of sorts and...
In My Opinion: Jackie Kemp: Reading a newspaper is a must to understand Scottish affairsSeptember 14, 2012
READING a quality Scottish daily newspaper remains indispensable for anyone who wants to be well-informed about...
In My Opinion: Stewart Weir: More to beat than a deadlineSeptember 7, 2012
HER opening salvo was thought-provoking. “Perhaps we should make a Paralympic pact before we start....
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Time to put the ‘local’ back into local newspapersAugust 31, 2012
WHERE have all the readers gone? Scotland’s hard-pressed local weekly newspapers are in serious bother....
In My Opinion: Francis Shennan: Is WikiLeaks journalism?August 24, 2012
SO, now we have a Scottish angle to the Julian Assange case. To London, it...
In My Opinion: Kevin McKenna: Rangers, the mainstream media and blogsAugust 17, 2012
FEW spheres of Scottish society have been left untouched by events surrounding the demise of...
In My Opinion: Ellen Arnison: Citizen journalism and journalism ethicsAugust 10, 2012
EVERYONE has got an opinion about journalists, it seems. Particularly those of the tabloid persuasion....
In My Opinion: Chris Holme: Digital history manAugust 3, 2012
AMID all the gloom that hangs over traditional news media, there’s one bright spot from an...
In My Opinion: Jim Chisholm: My first challenges at the Scottish Newspaper SocietyJuly 27, 2012
NOTHING brought home to me more the variety, potential and opportunity of the Scottish newspaper...
In My Opinion: Atholl Duncan: Why the BBC should not be privatisedJuly 20, 2012
AS the glorious floods of summer begin to subside, there are signs that Scottish journalism...
In My Opinion: Dorothy-Grace Elder: Please, no more secretive PRJuly 20, 2012
SCOTLAND remains a country of knee jerk secrecy, despite Freedom of Information and good Scottish...
In My Opinion: Scott Douglas: A spring in the step of the media?July 20, 2012
IT strikes me that there’s something of a spring back in the step of news...
In My Opinion: Craig McGill: Are sub-editors the secret to winning the digital war?July 20, 2012
THEY are the unseen heroes of many an article and the oft-ignored part of a...
In My Opinion: Paul Holleran: The mental state of the mediaJuly 20, 2012
NOWHERE in my job description as the Scottish Organiser of the National Union of Journalists...
