Passionate about technology, media and chocolate eclairs, I've worked in web and print for over twenty years and now run a digital media consultancy in Scotland.
Ruth was conspicuous by her absence, Jamie was conspicuous by his afro!There’s an urban myth that haunts critics around the globe. It exists to ensure they stay the distance at even the most dullest of shows. The myth tells the tale of a newspaper reviewer who filed his review of the full show and it goes to print on the same night.
But by the interval, the reviewer had seen enough of this... 
Weekly newspapers are in danger of becoming once-a-week dailies if they continue to hang on to old news for up to six days before publishing it.
News at all levels is filtering down to the masses through the internet and social media, leaving a situation where many weeklies are only serving up fresh news from the day before publication, and struggling to fill the back pages with readable... 
MPs are at opposite ends of the table when it comes to the hot issue of whether it’s right for council’s to take their public notices and job adverts out of local papers and put them on the internet.
Highlands and Islands MSP David Stewart has started a campaign to ‘Save Our Local Papers’. He fears that they will go out of business if they do not get their local chunk of the £6... 
