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Communicator - February 2012
Keep up to date with the latest news and information from Denholm, and the UK marketing industry. Our Communicator brings together news feeds from leading marketing publications, regular comment from our team of bloggers, as well as company news and developments.
Circulation Cheer for Handful of Scots Local Newspapers
Posted on: Wednesday 29th February 2012
A handful of Scots local and regional newspapers - some of them free - have bucked the trend of falling circulation among Scots newspaper titles, according to latest figures.Sales the Audit Bureau of Circulation, among the paid-for titles, the East Lothian Courier, the Dumbarton Vale of Leven Reporter and The Orcadian were the paid-for titles to enjoy a year-on-year... Read More
'Constructive Meeting' Reported to have taken Place between Murdoch and Salmond
Posted on: Wednesday 29th February 2012
A "constructive meeting" is reported to have taken place today in Edinburgh between newspapers owner, Rupert Murdoch, and First Minister, Alex Salmond.Reports the BBC, a spokesperson for the First Minister is quoted as saying of the meeting, which is understood to have included discussion about the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and the upcoming referendum on... Read More
Corruption in Britain a 'Black Comedy', writes Bell
Posted on: Wednesday 29th February 2012
The Herald columnist, Ian Bell, today writes of "a black comedy" of pretending that corruption does not exist in British public life, following claims yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards of "a culture at the Sun of illegal payments" to public officials, including police officers.Writes Bell, in a lengthy piece: "Patronage expressed in cash rewards,... Read More
Book Club: Islamic Branding and Marketing – Creating a Global Islamic Business by Paul Temporal
Posted on: Wednesday 29th February 2012
Adrian Day, independent brand consultant, reads Islamic Branding and Marketing and finds it doesn’t quite rise to the challenge.
Nearly 25% of the world’s population are Muslims; fast-growing nations such as China and India have significant Muslim minorities – as do many Western countries.
So a book focussed on Islamic branding and marketing is likely to be [...] Read More
5.9 seconds of desire by Faris Yakob
Posted on: Wednesday 29th February 2012
We put together this very fast film festival as part of the launch for the new BMW 3 Series. It’s a 5.9 second film contest to be exact.
[That's amount of time it takes to get from NAUGHT to SIXTY.]
Show us how much you desire a new 3Series, in the most creative, epic, dare [...] Read More
Murdoch Heckled by Tommy Sheridan's Mother
Posted on: Wednesday 29th February 2012
Rupert Murdoch was in Glasgow yesterday, visiting the Scottish HQ of his Sun, Sun on Sunday, Times and Sunday Times newspapers ...to be greeted by the mother of former MSP, Tommy Sheridan, who heckled him as he was entering the building.Tommy Sheridan was released from prison last month after serving a year for perjury during a successful defamation case six years ago... Read More
Market Leader: The consumer psyche: irrationality rules
Posted on: Wednesday 29th February 2012
In the Marketing Society’s quarterly journal Market Leader Melanie Howard explains how attitudes and behaviour refuse to allow logical patterns.
Centuries after the Enlightenment there is still a mighty battle raging to decide what really dominates the wellsprings of human action. On the one hand, the majority consensus in liberal democracies holds that our choices can, [...] Read More
McAlpine Signs off from Scotsman with Thanks and Recollections
Posted on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
It is the last day, today, of SNP MSP Joan McAlpines weekly column for The Scotsman, as she prepares to take up a similar role with the Daily Record.And she used the opportunity to dispense some grateful thanks and journalistic recollections, in readiness for adding an independence voice to the Labour-supporting Record.She begins: "Its always hard to say goodbye,... Read More
Scottish Sun Claiming it was Scotland's Top-selling Newspaper on Sunday
Posted on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
The new Sunday edition of The Scottish Sun is claiming it was Scotlands top-selling newspaper on Sunday, its launch beating its nearest rival by 9,000 copies.Yesterday, allmediascotland.com reported an estimated 320,000-plus copies of The Scottish Sun on Sunday had been sold. Today, The Scottish Sun is claiming the figure was, more exactly, 323,000 and that it beat "our... Read More
Mallon in the Running for Second Writing Prize
Posted on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
A Glasgow-based freelance journalist is in the running for her second award for fiction writing this year.
Maggie Mallonis one of three students from The University of Glasgows Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing course named on the shortlist for this years Sceptre Prize for emerging writers.
The annual prize, now in its fifth year, is jointly run by the university... Read More
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