THE Herald newspaper is reporting: “The funeral of Ian Bell, the award-winning journalist and columnist for The Herald and Sunday Herald, is to take place in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
“Mr Bell died aged 59 after taking ill at his home in the Borders on Thursday of last week.
“The service will be in the Main Chapel of Mortonhall Crematorium at 1pm. His funeral procession is to pass the Scottish Parliament.”
Read more, here.
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AND again, in The Herald, chief reporter, David Leask – on today’s front page of the paper – reports on the continuing story of police spying on journalists’ sources, and whether four officers may be prevented from being quizzed by MSPs.
Read more, here.
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THREE hundred and sixty-degree views of key BBC Scotland locations have become available online, using Google Street View technology.
Says the BBC: “The web company’s ‘360’ cameras took a tour of Studio A – home of productions such as Mrs Brown’s Boys, Studio B and the newsroom at the broadcaster’s HQ in Pacific Quay, Glasgow.
“They also captured the scene at BBC Scotland’s production facility in Dumbarton where the drama, River City, is filmed.”
View them here: Studio A (here), Studio B (here), BBC Scotland news (here) and River City (here).
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BEGINS a media release posted on the site by Media House International: “[Gaelic media service] MG ALBA [yesterday] published a five-year strategic plan aimed at transforming the contribution of Gaelic media.
“Key objectives of the plan include initiatives to effect a major step change in the involvement of young people in Gaelic media and to develop a wider range of learning platforms.
“Partnerships with other Gaelic organisations are central to the new strategic plan.”
Read more, here.
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LATEST adjudications from the press watchdog, the Independent Press Standards Organisation: a complaint against The Herald, another against the Daily Record, neither upheld.
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AS previously intimated, on Tuesday: the last Your Noon Briefing. Two years ago, allmediascotland.com began to curate media news already ‘out there’, having previously sourced stories itself.
And now the site format is to change yet again.
Remaining: media jobs, media releases and the media shop. Upcoming: a hopefully much more effective media directory.
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AN op ed, in the Agenda slot of The Herald, about online advertising – penned by Russell Campbell, a lecturer in marketing in the Business School at the University of the West of Scotland.
Read it, here.
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