1. Be prepared for some fun and games between the UK Government’s new Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries, and the BBC in the coming months. Still settling into her new role,…
1. Scottish newspapers and Scottish journalists â especially Newsquest Scotland titles â feature prominently in the Regional Press Awards 2020, organised by the Society of Editors and which attracted close…
1. I have become increasingly disillusioned with the Scottish professional football scene, and simply appalled by the dreadful carry-on involving a coterie of alleged Rangers FC supporters in trashing George…
1. DC Thomson Media, whose newspaper publications include the Press and Journal (P&J), the Evening Express, The Courier, the Evening Telegraph and the Sunday Post, has developed a new, innovative…
1. One of the National Union of Journalist’s leading lights in Scotland, Joyce McMillan, has taken the Scottish media world somewhat by surprise by predicting ‘mass redundancies’ in Scotland this…
1. The heart has been peremptorily ripped out of the editorial team at one of Scotland’s leading daily newspapers, The Herald, with the news that nine of its key staff…
1. Industrial action could be looming over the festive period at Newsquest Scotland after journalists on its five newspapers opted for an industrial action ballot following the threat of compulsory…
1. That Was The Week That Was, according to songstress Millicent Martin, and some week it has been for us small coterie of professional media watchers. While the US-owned major…
1. Influential US-based, British-born, media academic Emily Bell, hits the nail right on the head in pointing out: ‘Even connoisseurs of the BBC’s dangerous moments could tell you we are…
1. Amidst all the Brexit brouhaha, savage sackings and resignations not quite in tune with the ethos of one-nation Tories, plus the endless speculation on an imminent general election, I…