We have a lion. A real one? I’ll return to him presently. As I write, we’ve been in Fes for exactly four weeks, acclimatising to some exceptional heat. After a…
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…
Still here in Fes, Morocco. Forty-four degrees today, Sunday. Going outside is like entering an oven. We long for a welcome breeze flowing through our flat, as back in Edinburgh…
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. A new UK Government survey is asking journalists to share their experiences of threats and abuse. The research has been commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and…
My sister-in-law insisted I view the five headless corpses on the rug in the back bedroom. Professionally butchered, they might even have looked beautiful if your taste ran to such…
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. Newspaper publisher JPIMedia has undergone a name-change after its owner National World decided its name ‘no longer’ reflects the business or its ambitions. It has been rebranded under the…
Last Saturday afternoon, I persuaded my husband to come with me to see the film version of Where the Crawdads Sing at the Everyman cinema on the fifth floor of…