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In My Opinion: Jim Raeburn: Newspapers and the Scottish Digital Network
November 19, 2010
Attended by over 200 people, a debate in Glasgow, on November 16, about the Scottish…
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In My Opinion: Derek Tucker: The internet, media graduates and being ‘Jurassic’November 17, 2010
On the eve of his retirement, after 18 years as editor of The Press and...
In My Opinion: David Hutchison: Cause for concern raised by hasty agreement between the BBC and the GovernmentNovember 12, 2010
IN 1986, the Peacock Report on the future financing of the BBC was published. It...
In My Opinion: Richard Goslan: There’s been a burst of news TV channels in India, so why not Scotland?November 9, 2010
IT is always invigorating to visit India, to try and absorb as much of the...
In My Opinion: John Collins: The case for adverts on the World ServiceNovember 4, 2010
WHEN I am away on holiday, I do the odd thing that so many Scots...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Is too much sport killing our newspapers?October 29, 2010
FAR too much space in our newspapers is allocated to sport – and to football...
In My Opinion: John Collins: On the verge of a radio renaissance?September 29, 2010
IN the radio industry, we have one professional body – the Radio Academy. The Scottish...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Isn’t it time the ‘alcohol question’ was shown the ‘red card’?September 24, 2010
NOW that the minimum price per unit proposal for alcohol has been kicked into touch,...
In My Opinion: David Thomson: Scottish computer games industry in transition, not crisisSeptember 21, 2010
AS you may have read, the Scottish Affairs Committee visited Scotland last week to investigate...
In My Opinion: Robin MacPherson: Reflections on the Edinburgh TV FestivalSeptember 10, 2010
ANOTHER MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival is over. The Armani suits, killer heels and expense...
In My Opinion: Jerry Ward: It’s not a shameful act but putting a dollar sign on your press coverage misses the pointSeptember 2, 2010
IT is a question that has challenged the PR industry for the past few decades...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Our weekly newspapers – time someone shouted ‘stop’August 31, 2010
READ them and weep. The circulation figures for Scotland’s weekly newspapers are so bad I...
In My Opinion: Chris Hammond: Pushy PR people put dampener on FreshersAugust 19, 2010
THE lead up to the Freshers’ Edition of Scotcampus magazine is both exciting and exhausting....
In my opinion: Martin Boyle: The media lessons to be learned from the Vancouver OlympicsMarch 1, 2010
“WE have never known it so tough.” That was perhaps the strongest message from journalists...
In my opinion: Julian Calvert: Yes, there should be a Scottish Media CommissionDecember 4, 2009
IT’S hard to argue with the newly-elected president of the National Union of Journalists, Peter...
In my Opinion: Martin Hannan: ITV and STVNovember 4, 2009
ALL my life I have detested bullies. Those who physically or mentally terrorise fellow human...
In my opinion: Martin Boyle: In defence of shorthand and media lawMarch 17, 2009
On Monday, Professor Brian McNair, of Strathclyde University, explained why shorthand has been dropped as an...
In My Opinion: Paul Holleran: Should the Daily Record PM editions be welcomed?September 1, 2006
A STORMY meeting is expected at Central Quay in Glasgow today, when the Daily Record...
In My Opinion: Alex Bell: Big trouble in little BBCJuly 14, 2006
IN his Jeremy Clarkson-tight jeans and neat haircut, Blair Jenkins always had the manner of...
