A CALL for entries has been issued for an awards competition run by the Marketing Society Scotland.
The organisation’s 2015 Star Awards is “urging marketers to prove their work works”, under the heading, ‘proof prevails’.
Say the competition organisers, in a media announcement: “With a duty to demonstrate return on investment, marketers from all over Scotland, whichever sector they operate in, are being encouraged to submit entries detailing campaigns and initiatives that prove their marketing has delivered positive impact.”
The deadline for entries is February 18.
For more details, click here.
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BEGINS the website, a516digital: “[Scottish music and sport radio station] Eklipse Sports Radio is to be re-branded in January, following the sale of a majority shareholding to new investors – including the owners of Hamilton Academical FC – by founding director, Spencer Pryor.”
Read more, here.
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A BOOK about the role played by golf resort, Gleneagles, in golf’s Ryder Cup tournament has been updated to incorporate the recent staging of the latest edition of the competition at the Perthshire venue.
The first edition of ‘Jewel in the Glen: Gleneagles, Golf and The Ryder Cup’ was published last year – as noted here, on allmediascotland.
Written by former sportswriter, Scot, Ed Hodge – who is now PR and media executive at the Scottish Golf Union – the updated edition features details of the latest Ryder Cup, which ended in a 16.5-11.5 win for Europe over the USA.
Read more, here.
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A COMMUNICATIONS officer is being sought by the Scottish Legal Aid Board, as advertised here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
Visit us for media vacancies in PR, newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, marketing and digital.
And keep up-to-date by following twitter.com/allmediajobs.
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A NEW body – which describes itself as “the united voice of the £6 billion national, regional and local news media sector in the UK” – has been formed.
The News Media Association follows the merger of the Newspaper Society, ‘the voice of local media’, and the Newspaper Publishers’ Association, ‘which represented national publishers’.
Read more, here.
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INTERESTED in the law, report the law, involved in it? Then check out the allmediascotland spin-off service, twitter.com/allLegalPR – comprising law-related media releases posted on the site, such as yesterday’s Law at Work release (here), uploaded by The BIG Partnership.
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INTERESTING read from academic, Ewan Sutherland, on the topic of whether broadcasting could be devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
Sutherland was writing on the website of the London School of Economics’ Media Policy Project blog.
Read more, here.
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THE very well-known Scots musician, Dougie MacLean, is quoted by The Scotsman newspaper complaining about the amount of airtime given to Scottish music by BBC Scotland.
Read more, here.
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THE spotlight falls on radio DJ, Suzie McGuire, in the continuing court case involving her husband, who denies charges of assault.
Among the widespread reporting, including the front page of The Scotsman (here), the case is covered by the Daily Record (here), The Herald (here) and the Scottish Daily Express (here).
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