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Advertising: Brave New World?
December 15, 2006 · No comments

About nine months ago, a handful of us involved in the advertising and marketing industries...

General Media: Might Students Hold the Key to Rich, New Era of Investigative Reporting?
December 13, 2006 · No comments

Journalism education is one of the great unmentionables in the industry. If, like me, you...

General Media: SMG: A Tale for us All
December 12, 2006 · No comments

The ‘fall of SMG’ is the morality tale that speaks for the whole of the...

Newspapers: Guilty Plea Masks Dark Arts
December 4, 2006 · No comments

It is a pity we shan’t have a full-blown court hearing about the News of...

Newspapers: Why Iain Martin Will Soon Edit a National Newspaper
November 29, 2006 · No comments

Iain Martin was yesterday appointed deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph. It is the latest...

Film: Wanted: Cultural Enterprise Centre for Capital
November 29, 2006 · No comments

Necessity is the mother of invention. Edinburgh-based film and TV producers know this in their...

Newspapers: The Press Gazette – A Tribute
November 26, 2006 · No comments

After 41 years of providing journalists with news and opinion about their industry, the Press...

Film: DIY Distribution
November 6, 2006 · No comments

Talk to any group of producers and filmmakers and they will tell you of wonderful,...

General Media: Climate Change Heat is on… the Newsdesk
October 20, 2006 · No comments

Over 50 years since the New Scientist first reported on the greenhouse effect, it is...

Marketing and Advertising: Publicise, Publicise, Publicise
September 27, 2006 · No comments

Among the many reasons to be cheerful from yesterday’s meeting of some of the country’s...

Film: Escape to Reality
September 22, 2006 · No comments

The received wisdom has always been that most people go to the cinema to escape...

General Media: We’re all Doomed
September 20, 2006 · No comments

We’re all doomed – how often have we heard the Scottish media sound its own...

Newspapers: Is the Record Pricing Right?
September 5, 2006 · No comments

Does the Daily Record have a problem with price? The evidence suggests it can’t quite...

General Media: Why Did Media Behave as it Did at Grangemouth?
September 1, 2006 · No comments

There was an incident at Grangemouth Docks last week. A shipping container landed on the...

Film: Danielsen Leaves Film Fest with Spring in its Step
August 28, 2006 · No comments

As it hit its 60th birthday, was this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival a true...

Television: MacTaggart Lecture 2006: The Billion Dollar Question
August 26, 2006 · No comments

Television: Wanted – Creative Talent to Stop Rot on TV
August 23, 2006 · No comments

The corporate fate of Scottish Television has been a running plot line for more years...

Radio: Is Anger just all Talk?
August 19, 2006 · No comments

If it hasn’t done so already, the all-speech radio station, talk107, is threatening to become...

Film: Applause Too Self-Conscious for Festival Opener
August 15, 2006 · No comments

Peter Broughan would have enjoyed the reaction to his vision of nine years ago. Now...