Dec 22, 2024
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Journalists don’t have crystal balls
May 2, 2014
THERE was a lot of feedback the other day on social media when Beattie Communications…
Read the rest of this entry
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Time to drop the MrApril 23, 2014
WHY do newspapers feel it necessary to call an accused person Mr when he first...
In My Opinion: John McGurk: Why editors must avoid the ‘Bill Heaney lunch’February 14, 2014
I WAS surprised to read – here on allmediascotland.com – that Bill Heaney seldom got...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Editors are needed as never beforeFebruary 2, 2014
EDITORS, who needs them? And what are they for anyway? Has the digital age finally...
Bill Heaney: Bishop says it’s time Catholic Church became more pro-active in promoting its imageJanuary 23, 2014
THE Catholic Church in Scotland feels it is being seriously got at by some sections...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Who is Scotland’s worst-dressed journalist?January 8, 2014
THE great thing about being retired – or working from home – is that you...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Time to look back, but not go backJanuary 3, 2014
THERE’S an old saying that one should look back but never go back… Half a...
That Was the Year That Was (2013): Bill Heaney, journalist, columnist and photographer, specialising in religionDecember 24, 2013
GOOD year, bad year? As 2013 draws to a close, we ask veteran journalist Bill Heaney, journalist,...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Good stories are like ‘hen’s teeth’December 17, 2013
DOES anyone ever wonder why – in my experience – people who used to work...
Bill Heaney: Correcting errorsDecember 5, 2013
WHEN you tell them they have made a mistake, why is it that some newspaper...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: What is happening to local newspapers?November 25, 2013
ARE Scotland’s local weekly newspapers ‘cutting their own throats’? Has the fact that they seem...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: God’s victory over Mammon in the comms businessMay 26, 2013
SAY what you like about religion – and of course you do – but the...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: The Churches and the mediaMay 14, 2013
ARCHBISHOP Philip Tartaglia appears to be one of the few churchmen in Scotland who realises...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Why templates are a pain in the tailApril 22, 2013
WE live in the age of the template – all the news that’s printed to...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Religion – a big Scottish story for the next decade or more?March 18, 2013
RELIGIOUS affairs correspondents, who needs them? Little did Scotland’s newspapers think they would need to...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Reporting the resignation of Pope Benedict XVIFebruary 11, 2013
I DON’T want to say, ‘I told you so’, but I did warn you in...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Time for the Scottish Media to ‘do God’?January 17, 2013
RELIGION. Who needs it? I have said it before and I say it again: newspapers...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Scotland’s ‘Leveson panel’ requires weekly inputJanuary 7, 2013
HAPPY New Year everyone or, then again, maybe not… Those of you who have come...
Heaney resurrecting Notebook column for the Lennox HeraldOctober 25, 2012
THE veteran journalist, Bill Heaney, has returned to his former stomping ground, at the Lennox...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Time to put the ‘local’ back into local newspapersAugust 31, 2012
WHERE have all the readers gone? Scotland’s hard-pressed local weekly newspapers are in serious bother....
