BEGINS The Press and Journal (here): “Big hitters from Scottish business life are backing a new campaign to highlight the key role played by the newspaper industry in their success.
“A total of 66 leading lights from a wide range of organisations have put their names to supporting what the Scottish Newspaper Society (SNS) calls the ‘irreplaceable contribution newspapers in Scotland make to business and society’.
“The list includes US billionaire Donald Trump, Aberdeen Asset Management chief executive Martin Gilbert and Mike Brown, managing partner at Aberdeen-based accountancy firm Anderson Anderson & Brown.”
Read the full list of backers, here, on the website of the Scottish Newspaper Society.
And in a similar vein, the Border Telegraph begins: “The Scottish newspaper industry remains a key means of communication, according to leading Scottish business figures, including property tycoon, Donald J Trump, and retail boss, Anne Ledgerwood.
“A new campaign launched today by the Scottish Newspaper Society (SNS) highlights the importance of news brands – in print, online and mobile – in the commercial strategies of organisations of all shapes and sizes.”
Read more, here.
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THE chief reporter with the Highland News has been named Journalist of the Year at the annual Highlands and Islands Media Awards.
Inverness-based Eilidh Davies was – say the organisers – “the unanimous choice of the judges, having also won the Reporter of the Year title and being shortlisted in the Top Story of the Year category”.
Read more, here.
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THE Independent, The Times and The Independent on Sunday newspapers have each seen their latest year-on-year sales figures in Scotland rise.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS David Leask, in The Herald: “A major review of legislation has been launched amid concerns the country’s failure to match English libel reform is having a chilling effect on free speech.
“The Scottish Law Commission, which advises Holyrood on legislative reform, will look at laws drafted decades before the rise of Twitter, Facebook and mass electronic publication.
“Its chairman, Paul Cullen, the judge Lord Pentland, said the Commission wanted to ensure the law was ‘fit for the internet age’.”
Read more, here.
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A DOCUMENTARY, which includes a former Scotsman political editor, was among the winners at the BAFTA Film Awards, held last night.
Citizenfour beat off four other nominations for the Best Documentary prize.
About Edward Snowden and his leaking of classified information from the US-based National Security Agency, including about their surveillance techniques, the film features Ewen MacAskill – now at The Guardian but for six years political editor of The Scotsman.
Read more, here.
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THEY’RE obviously a bit like buses…
Last week, The Scotsman’s Brian Ferguson (who has been thoroughly following the story for a long time) was reporting that Cumbernauld is the “front-runner’ to become the home of a Scots film studio (as noted, here, on allmediascotland).
But in The Scotsman’s sister title, Scotland on Sunday, he was yesterday beginning a report, thus: “Up to 900 new jobs could be created if a new film and television studio development is given the go-ahead on the outskirts of Edinburgh, its developers have revealed.
“The team behind the £150 million scheme earmarked for 86 acres of unused land in Midlothian have revealed their full, expanded plans for the project for the first time ahead of submitting a full planning application.”
Read more, here.
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INTERESTING discussion on the website, media.info… on what might be the perfect model to run a community radio station.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS Shân Ross, in The Scotsman: “The Scots language should be heard on radio and television as part of mainstream programming and not confined to comedy shows, an award-winning broadcaster has said.
“BBC Scotland’s Frieda Morrison, who also presents a monthly podcast on Scots Language Radio, will host an event next week and call for Scots to be given the same airtime as Gaelic.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “[Media and digital communications group] Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) Scotland has named David Crawley as managing partner, joining from Talon Scotland, where he spent the last year as a director.”
Read more, here.
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AND a media awards competition run by The Drum – celebrating ‘excellence in digital journalism’ – has issued a call for entries.
The deadline for the Online Media Awards is the 13th of next month.
Read more, here.
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