Although launched only a year ago in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic upheaval, a hyper-local independent community magazine project centred on Govanhill in Glasgow’s south side, has already emerged…
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. Dundee-headquartered media group DC Thomson (DCT) has been renowned throughout its 116-year history for the judicious handling of its financial affairs â especially its astute investment policy and track…
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. Tech giants such as Meta (Facebook) and Google could be forced to pay newspapers and other media outlets for using their stories under new laws being drawn up by…
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. There’s some heartening news on the media front from the Western Isles. It looks as if what was a very ailing Stornoway Gazette weekly newspaper could be well on…
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. The BBC dominated proceedings in the Royal Television Society Scotland Awards 2021, winning 17 of the 22 categories at stake. The awards were announced via a virtual ceremony hosted…
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…