SNS renamed Newsbrands Scotland The trade association for Scotland’s news publishers, the Scottish Newspaper Society, has from today been renamed Newsbrands Scotland, dropping “newspaper”…
Tech giants “feeding off” news publishers, says minister A UK Government minister today (October 4) accused tech giants Google and facebook of “feeding off” the work of preofessional…
Scottish Newsbrands signal they mean business When my journalism career started 40 years ago, newspapers had the field to themselves and the biggest threat to continued…
Photographer becomes first to win Journalist of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards Press Association photographer Jane Barlow tonight became the first ever photographer to win the coveted Journalist of the Year category…
44th Scottish Press Awards finalists unveiled The highly anticipated shortlist for Weekly Newspaper of the Year has today been announced by the Scottish Press Awards, one…
Scottish Press Awards shortlist announced The shortlist for the 44th Scottish Press Awards has been announced today (April 21, 2023), recognising excellence in national, regional…
Scottish Government threat to alcohol advertising in news brands “based on a whim” A ban on alcohol marketing could wipe out an eighth of some Scottish news publishers’ advertising revenues, according to a…
Virtually every Scottish adult reads local media, new research reveals New readership data has revealed virtually every adult in Scotland reads a local Scottish news title at least once a…
MPs back expansion of local democracy reporter service A committee of MPs has called for the expansion of the BBC-funded local democracy reporter service (LDRS) as part…
Trust in UK’s local news media grows for 40m monthly readers Forty million people now read local news media in print and digital every month, according to the latest audience data…