WRITES Georgia Love, under the headline, End of Era, on the front page of the Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Observer, published on Friday: “Marion and John Carmichael announce their retirement, and the last ever Dunoon Observer to be printed in Dunoon rolled off the presses yesterday, and the last newspaper to be printed in Argyll.
“However, next week will be business as usual, just that the paper will be printed elsewhere. The E&R Inglis presses have fallen silent for the last time.”
Read more, here.
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A SHORTHAND tutor is being sought by Glasgow Caledonian University – as advertised, here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
The post is being advertised because one of the best-known faces in Scottish journalism education is retiring next month.
Hundreds of journalists working all over Scotland have learned Teeline under Eleanor Bryans’ expert guidance – she has taught shorthand to all of GCU’s multimedia journalism students since the university’s undergraduate and postgraduate degrees were launched, and taught students at the Scottish Centre for Journalism Studies for several years before that.
Julian Calvert, assistant head of social sciences, media & journalism at GCU, told allmediascotland.com: “Eleanor has helped students to achieve great results and will be a very hard act to follow – shorthand is core for our journalisms students, as it is still very much a key skill for employability, as well as being a requirement for NCTJ accreditation.”
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WIDELY reported, including here, in The Guardian, which begins: “The Sun is poised to make a major U-turn by scrapping its paywall and offering most of its website content for free.”
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WRITES Jon Stone, in The Independent (here): “Ms Constance appeared to take the gaffe well and apologised, telling viewers she thought the interview was being pre-recorded to air later in the day.”
He was referring to an interview by the Angela Constance, Scottish Government education minister to the BBC programme, Sunday Politics Scotland, where she mistook a live interview for a pre-recorded one, insodoing asking to try again an answer…
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A MIX-UP of notes has been acknowledged by the press watchdog – the Independent Press Standards Organisation – as the reason for an inaccurate report in the Edinburgh Evening News.
IPSO has upheld an inaccuracy complaint and recognised the paper had “reacted appropriately to the complaint when first alerted to the matter”.
Added IPSO: “[The paper] had recognised the inaccuracy, accepted responsibility for it, removed the online article, and offered to publish a correction that clearly addressed the inaccuracy, and included an unreserved apology.”
Read more, here.
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