The Scottish Newspaper Society has said that the British Olympics Association (BOA) could review the ‘inadequate’ number of media accreditation places handed to Scottish newspapers to cover the London 2012 Olympic Games.Jim Raeburn,... Read more
Jim Raeburn, director of the Scottish Newspaper Society has said that he does not believe that public notice adverts will disappear from newspapers, despite the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA)’s launch of an online platform... Read more
It’s a bit of an epic Quotes of the Week this week folks, but it’s been a bit of an epic week for news, as the Robson Brown situation rumbled on and redundancies were unfortunately at the forefront of several company’s thoughts.... Read more
Michael Johnston, president of the Scottish Newspapers Society, has reacted angrily to the announcement by the BBC that it will develop smart phone applications to deliver its online news content and called into question much of the news reporting... Read more
Michael Johnston, president of the Scottish Newspaper Society has praised the decision by The Scottish Government to retreat from its plans to move public sector notice spend from newspapers to a bespoke, online platform.Johnston spoke to The Drum... Read more
Following much campaigning by the Scottish newspaper industry, with the backing of the majority of Scotland's MSP's, The Scottish Government has chosen to withdraw its plans to move public notices onto an online platform.The plans had been for... Read more
An advertising campaign has been launched by the Scottish Newspaper Industry targeting MSP’s expressing their concerns about the Scottish Government’s plans to place local authority announcements on a bespoke web portal. The MSP&rsquo... Read more
Members of the Scottish Newspaper Society today met MSP Jim Mather, as part of an ongoing campaign to stop the Scottish Government pulling public notice advertising out of newspapers in favour of a new web portal.In advance of the meeting Michael... Read more
Jim Raeburn, director of The Scottish Newspaper Society has written a piece in reaction to The Drum’s leader in its edition released 19 February. In that edition, the leader ‘Old Fashioned, Luddite Battle Looms for Press’... Read more
To American journalists it’s a ‘Fuck Me Martha’. To Brits ‘A Marmalade Dropper’. But it is something every newspaper should have: a shocker, a talker, something that prompts you to swear at your wife or drop your jam... Read more
