DC Thomson’s teenage magazine, Shout, has been named Magazine of the Year at the 2014 Scottish Magazine Awards hosted by PPA Scotland.
The title also won Consumer Magazine of the Year, as well as the award for Online Presence for their Project Smile social media campaign.
Read more, here.
Pic by Mike Wilkinson.
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BEGINS an announcement issued by the Institute of Internal Communication: “There are now over 45,000 people in the UK working in internal communication (IC). This is the key finding of new research carried out by the Institute of Internal Communication and leading communications consultancy, theblueballroom.
“To date, there’s been a lot of conjecture about the numbers, and these findings are considerably higher than previous estimates of around 20,000 – suggesting an upward trend. This research is the first publicly available, robust study to provide an in-depth analysis of the IC population today. The research is made up of individuals who either work wholly or partly in internal communication and encompass private, public and charity sectors.”
Read more, here.
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AN article, titled ‘Girls are taught young that violence towards them is normal’, has been chosen among the winners of a Scots media awards ceremony that seeks to confront the issue of violences against women.
At the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday evening, prizes were handed out across three categories: Best Blog, Best Student Article and Best Article. A fourth category was ‘Worst Article’.
‘Girls are taught young that violence towards them is normal’ – by Nancy Lombard, a lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University – was named ‘Best Article’.
The event was opened by Alison Johnstone, MSP.
Read more, here.
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A PHOTOGRAPHY project, seeking to ‘capture Scotland’ during the build-up to the September 18 vote on Scots independence has been included among a series of exhibitions being staged next year by the National Galleries of Scotland.
Writes Phil Miller, in The Herald (here): “The NGS has announced that its 2015 slate of shows includes the work of the photographer David Bailey, a show focussing on the relationship between the photographer Lee Miller and Pablo Picasso, and a major retrospective of the Dutch graphic artist, MC Escher.”
And the exhibitions series includes Document Scotland, produced by four Scots photographers: Colin McPherson, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Sophie Gerrard and Stephen McLaren.
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NORMAN Mair versus Alan Cochrane.
Edinburgh Evening News columnist, John McLellan – a former editor of the paper (and also The Scotsman) and now director of the Scottish Newspaper Society – today reflects on the different approaches taken by the two journalists, insodoing providing his own tribute to sports writer, Mair, who died at the weekend (noted, here, on allmediascotland).
Cochrane, Scotland editor for The Daily Telegraph, has recently had his diaries published (see here), in which McLellan features.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “Excitement, shock and anger were among the emotions that drove conversations about TV shows this year, with Sherlock Holmes’ return in ‘The Empty Hearse’ being the most talked about moment in TV.
“Research from Telegraph Hill scrutinised Twitter conversations to identify specific moments within broadcasts that had real emotional impact and prompted viewers to share their feelings on social media.”
Read more, here.
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