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FRESH in the door to work in the Glasgow Caledonian University communications office, I met...

AS the owner of a small public relations consultancy, I was pleased to read recently...

THE Commonwealth Games is a big deal. It’s the third-largest sporting event in the world...

I THINK we’ll look back on 2013 as the year when journalism in Scotland began...

THE accelerating ‘makeover’ of society’s use of digital technology and processes has created a shift...

WHO, in today’s world of openness and lack of privacy, deserves anonymity? Rape victims? Of...

DON Draper reclines on his soft pad office chair, knocks back a large Canadian Club...

“THE newsroom was a huge, dingy place, apparently full of huge, dingy men.” That’s how...

WHEN the ‘McCluskey Report’ on regulation of the media in Scotland was published a week...

IT’S a sad fact that around two people take their own lives every day in...

WHILE not every sports editor has yet to fully grasp the readership potential of reporting...

THE Paisley Daily Express may have done well to notch up an impressive sales lift...

MEDIA apocalypse, but when? And after death, what kind of resurrection? A new study at...

WHEN I moved to Ibiza nearly nine years ago, I thought online social networking was...

Ken Symon: A ‘Herlad’ writes
February 8, 2013 · Comments Off

I HAVE had a lifelong relationship with The Herald. It was the newspaper that my...

THIS just in: Journalism is a fundamentally arrogant, self-obsessed industry too wrapped up in its...

AS February approaches, local newspaper editors are bracing themselves for the public exhibition that are...

LAST week, the prominent Scots historian, Professor Tom Devine, called for a shake-up of BBC...

A JOURNALIST colleague thought he’d won the lottery when he joined The Sun as a...

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