by Junio Valerio Songa Any aspiring journalist who would be interested in work experience at the Scottish Parliament can apply for a competition launched by Holyrood in collaboration with the Fife Free Press newspaper. The week long placement will be accessible to Scottish final year and postgraduate journalism students, who will work alongside accomplished [...]
By Myles Edwards http://mylesedwards.wordpress.com Cast your mind back to 1967. Labour were in power in the United Kingdom. War in the Middle East was causing conflict in the western world. Casino Royale was a box office hit. Mini skirts were the craze. Ken Barlow was strutting his stuff in one of the nation’s favourite soap [...]
By Kenny Simpson Fountain Park is ‘thriving’ after opening ten years ago due to offering credit crunch suffering Edinburgers’ an alternate to costly nights out, according to a business guru. The leisure park has become one of Edinburgh’s most popular hotspots with an average daily attendance figure of 10,000 people. Napier business guru Robert Wilkinson said, “While it [...]
By Myles Edwards and Suhayl Afzal Newspapers are relying heavily on sports journalism to survive, according to leading journalists and academics. The latest circulation figures from ABC (an independent auditor on media performance) show that sales of each quality daily and Sunday newspaper have fallen again in the year leading up to October. Newspapers such as the The Guardian [...]
By Kenny Simpson For the third and final time this year, the superstitious among us have to survive the unluckiest day of the year. Today is… Friday the 13th! The number 13 is widely accepted as a very unlucky number and Friday as an unlucky day, so it is little wonder why so many of [...]
Industrial action at the Sunday Mail and Daily Record is set to go ahead later this week after staff voted overwhelmingly to strike in protest at plans to cut 70 jobs.
Journalists at the Trinity Mirror group voted 95% in favour of industrial action short of a strike, including work-to-rule, in an National Union of Journalists chapel poll on Friday. Of these ballots, 85% also supported action including strikes.
By Margaret Kearns Breaking News: Journalism is evolving. Did you know the Oxford English Dictionary, that stalwart of the English language, turns eighty this year? Like many an eighty year-old, hair dryer in hand to assist in candle blowing activities, it would seem it is no longer ‘with it’, no longer keeping up with the [...]
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