BEGINS Art Grainger, on the website, media.info: “So, TD1 Radio in Galashiels has finally launched as an FM community station, after having been online for almost five years.
“It’s the first to launch in Scotland and one of the first in the UK under the new revised restrictions regarding advertising vs public funding/donations.
“This one could be worth watching because it broadcasts within an area for which the ILR (Radio Borders) has a TSA of 101,000 people (yes, it is that close). It is also broadcasting from the capital town of the region, which also happens to be the same town that the ILR broadcasts from.”
Read more, here.
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FORMER STV editor, Shaun Milne, has been named as PR and digital media director at Lucid PR, which has offices in Inverness and Glasgow.
Says a media release, announcing the appointment: “Milne has an extensive background in print, broadcast and digital media. He was a news reporter and later associate news editor at the Daily Record and a reporter with the Sunday People and Daily Mirror in London, before becoming the Mirror’s news editor and, later, assistant editor in Scotland.
“He was co-founder and editor-in-chief of multiple-award-winning digital publishing house, Planet Ink, and was also managing editor for Deadline News in Edinburgh.
“He was recruited by STV in 2011 to launch the award-winning STV Local portfolio of websites, first as regional editor (Edinburgh) and later as editor for the entire project. He was promoted again in 2013 as editor of STV’s digital publishing division, launching and overseeing the ground-breaking STV City Apps, supporting local TV stations.
“He will work with Lucid’s award-winning news and media manager John Ross, former Highlands and Islands correspondent with The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday.”
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FOLLOWING yesterday’s report on allmediascotland.com about various well-known journalists leaving The Herald and Scotsman newspapers – in the main, under voluntary redundancy deals – there’s another name to add to Media Movers…
From The Herald, again under VR, Calum Macdonald has left as group digital head. He was in the post for four years, having previously been group head of news.
With a flair for compiling crosswords, it is understood he has both digital and crossword projects in his sights.
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BEGIN the organisers of arguably the UK’s most prestigious documentary films competition: “The 2015 British Documentary Awards are now open for business as The Grierson Trust makes its annual call for entries to the most prestigious awards in the documentary calendar, more fondly known as ‘The Griersons’.
“All entries must have had their first UK screening between 1 May 2014 and 30 April 2015. This includes scheduled screenings within recognised film, television and documentary festivals and, for the first time this year, entries will be accepted which have screened on digital platforms only – such as Netflix, iPlayer, Amazon – as long as the screening was accessible by a UK-based audience.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS an announcement from the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations: “The Digital Participation Challenge fund, delivered by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations with Scottish Government support, today published its second round of funding offers to 33 organisations across Scotland to help them get people and community groups online.”
Read more, here.
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THE cream of Scottish sports writing could be soon approached over the next few months, to contribute towards a dedicated Scottish sports newspaper.
Following a recent spate of departures from a couple of the country’s top sports desks, a so-called ‘media empire’ is said to be hatching plans to launch a weekly sports newspaper, ‘with a difference’.
Prof. Alid Loyas, a media pundit told allmediascotland.com: “The idea of a standalone Scottish sports newspaper, similar to L’Équipe, in France, has been discussed by sports journalists for years. So I am not surprised by the news.”
But not everyone is convinced. Media academic, Polli Faro, said: “This is somebody’s idea of a poor, silly fad.”
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THE Glasgow office of an international PR agency has announced its latest commission.
McFrank PR is reporting that it has won work from Claudi & Fin, makers of a Greek-style yoghurt lolly.
Read more, here.
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A JOURNALIST is being sought to work at the Benbecula-based newspaper, Am Pàipear – as advertised here on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
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