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In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Newspapers need to act now to stop more council advertising going on the internet
May 18, 2011
EVERYONE concerned about the future of newspapers must be deeply worried by the report on…
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In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: The ‘wisdom’ of a news blackoutApril 26, 2011
I DON’T know about other readers of allmediascotland, but I would have been reluctant to...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: An Old Hack raises a Ne’erday glass to the ‘old days’December 31, 2010
SADLY, no reporter on any newspaper in Scotland will be reaching into his desk drawer...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: We’re all galley slaves nowDecember 22, 2010
THERE is an insightful interview, if ever there was one, that every journalist should read...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Universities need print heavyweights to balance perception of bias towards broadcasting and digitalNovember 24, 2010
THE news that Blair Jenkins, chair of the Scottish Broadcasting Commission and a former head...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Is too much sport killing our newspapers?October 29, 2010
FAR too much space in our newspapers is allocated to sport – and to football...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Isn’t it time the ‘alcohol question’ was shown the ‘red card’?September 24, 2010
NOW that the minimum price per unit proposal for alcohol has been kicked into touch,...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Our weekly newspapers – time someone shouted ‘stop’August 31, 2010
READ them and weep. The circulation figures for Scotland’s weekly newspapers are so bad I...
In my opinion: Bill Heaney: Religion could be the saving of Scotland’s newspapersJuly 5, 2010
NEWSPAPERS, which are increasingly threatened with closure through loss of circulation and advertising, could find...
In my opinion: Bill Heaney: Why journalists need to get out moreJune 25, 2010
NEW tricks – such as surfing the internet – are not the answer to the...
Old hack versus new: who delivers best?June 22, 2010
JOURNALISM has changed, but is it better for it? That is the question BBC Radio...
In my opinion: Bill Heaney: More on the IFNCsMarch 31, 2010
HELLO, good evening and welcome to the least-watched television news programme in Scotland. This will...
In my opinion: Bill Heaney: Public notices in newspapersMarch 22, 2010
THE decision by the Scottish Government to ‘put to bed’ their proposed legislation freeing local...
In my opinion: Bill Heaney: Compromise needed to avert newspaper industry crisisFebruary 2, 2010
MOST politicians are scared stiff of newspapers. That is one of the reasons why so...
In my opinion: Bill Heaney: Why public notices need to stay in newspapers, not migrate to the internetDecember 19, 2009
WHEN I worked for First Minister, Henry McLeish, it was my job to get weekly...