A STORY from the Commonwealth Games during the summer has partly earned its writer a nomination in this year’s British Journalism Awards, run by the trade title, Press Gazette.
In July, The Times’ Edinburgh-based Katie Gibbons was reporting – here – that Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt, was seemingly unimpressed being in Glasgow.
And the resulting huge media interest included Bolt’s camp seeking to rebut the story and The Times (and its then Scotland editor, the now late Angus Macleod) vigorously defending it.
And noted here, the story was among a portfolio of pieces to have contributed towards Gibbons’ shortlisting.
Also among the nominees is former Scotsman writer, Gethin Chamberlain.
The winners will be revealed on the 2nd of next month.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “[Scotsman newspaper publisher] Johnston Press chief executive, Ashley Highfield, has admitted that staff morale has suffered amid extensive job cuts in a plan to turn the regional publisher’s business around, but insisted that journalists understand the tough conditions the company has been fighting through.
“Speaking to The Drum after a keynote speech at MediaTel’s Media Playground event, Highfield accepted that significant changes across the business – which has struggled under a mountain of debt as well as navigating through the digital publishing revolution – had affected the morale of staff but said that journalists were aware of what the company was up against.”
Read more, here.
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TODAY, the allmediascotland feature, The Media in Figures, reports the details of a survey of advertising spending (see here).
And there’s an interesting article, on the back of the survey, appearing on the website, MediaTel.co.uk.
It is headlined, ‘TV adspend forecast to pass £5bn for the first time in 2014′.
Read more, here.
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THE UK Green Investment Bank is seeking a media manager, as advertised here on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board and repeated on the twitter feed, allmediajobs.
Please do mention allmediascotland when replying to job ads you see on the site.
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SAYS a tweet from the Scottish Inquirer website: “Keep an eye on this feed for news of an exciting new investigative, long form and quality Scottish journalism portal. Launching 2015.”
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MORE from a court case, now in its second week, where the husband of radio DJ, Suzie McGuire, denies charges of assault.
This time, the widespread media coverage centres on McGuire. She is reported to have objected to a claim, made in court, that she had attempted suicide to avoid an assault charge against her.
Read more, here (Scottish Daily Express) and here (The Herald).
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THE Scotsman is today carrying an obituary of Iain McConnell, press officer – here.
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