Herald’s Henderson heading for Virgin Trains
THE transport correspondent at The Herald, Damien Henderson, is to join Virgin Trains. He is leaving at the end of next month for the role of communications manager for Scotland and the North of...
View ArticleLlewellin appointed Herald editor
THE deputy editor of The Herald newspaper has been named editor. Says the paper, Magnus Llewellin will be taking on his new role with the immediate effect. And word already from inside the building is...
View ArticleKen Symon: A ‘Herlad’ writes
I HAVE had a lifelong relationship with The Herald. It was the newspaper that my mum and dad read when I was growing up. It was the newspaper I began reading and aspired to work on when I decided to...
View ArticleFuneral of Gordon Rule an occasion to fondly remember a ‘larger than life’...
THE story that arguably raised the biggest laugh involved the observation, “Has anyone ever told you that you look like the spitting image of the Queen Mother?”, prompting the response: “I should think...
View ArticleThe Herald’s Edinburgh office to close
THE Edinburgh office of The Herald is to close. Its dozen or so staff are expected to have left the Hanover Street premises by next month. A spokesperson for the publishers, the Herald & Times...
View ArticleHerald promotes two of its senior staff; deputy editorship for McBain
THE Herald newspaper has promoted two of its senior staff, to the roles of deputy editor and senior assistant editor. Barclay McBain has been named deputy editor, while Graeme Smith is now senior...
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The Herald launches new look
THE Herald newspaper has launched a new look today, with among the most striking features being the stripping out of a lot of its previous colour, in the hope readers will embrace the paper as a...
View ArticleThe Story Behind: The new-look Herald
TUESDAY saw The Herald newspaper launch a new look, and here, editor, Magnus Llewellin, explains ‘the story behind’ it. Hi. Access to our premium editorial content or paid-for services requires being...
View ArticleNew app launches, for The Herald and Sunday Herald
THE Herald newspaper and its Sunday sister title, the Sunday Herald, have launched an app for iPhone and Android devices. The app – also available for the iPad – is, say the papers’ publishers,...
View ArticleFuneral of Anne Simpson set for Thursday
THE funeral of the journalist, Anne Simpson, is set for Thursday. Says a notice in today’s Herald – for whom she worked – there is to be a Requiem Mass held at 12.30pm on Thursday, at Saint Simon’s...
View ArticleTim Blott: We should take all the doom-mongers with a ‘pinch of salt’
NO-ONE talks down the newspaper industry better than the newspaper industry. It is a self-obsessed, ego-driven business, full of pontificating pessimists eager to write off print and deeply wary of the...
View ArticlePaintings by cartoonist, Bill McArthur, to be exhibited in Edinburgh
THE paintings of a former cartoonist at The Herald newspaper are to be exhibited in Edinburgh. This is the second solo exhibition of the work of Bill McArthur, his first having been on the Orkney...
View ArticleAround 17 production and picture desk posts at Herald & Times Group at risk...
AROUND 17 editorial production posts at The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times are at risk of redundancy. The papers’ publisher, the Herald & Times Group, is seeking applications for voluntary...
View ArticleHerald’s NUJ chapel to ballot on possible industrial action
THE National Union of Journalists’ chapel at the Herald & Times Group – publisher of The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times newspapers – is to ballot on possible industrial action. It follows...
View ArticleHerald website journalist loses cancer battle, aged 44
A BLOGGER on The Herald website and the content editor on sister website, S1, has died of cancer, aged 44. Graeme Smith had been on compassionate leave for the last two months when his cancer was...
View ArticleNUJ ballot on possible industrial action at the Herald & Times Group expected...
A BALLOT on possible industrial action by members of the National Union of Journalists at the Herald & Times Group of newspapers – including The Herald – is expected to take place next week,...
View ArticleEight compulsory redundancies to take place at Herald & Times Group
EIGHT compulsory redundancies are to take place at the Herald & Times Group, with a further nine posts being shed as voluntary applications for redundancy. The 17 posts being axed are part of plans...
View ArticleHerald increases price but is promising more
THE Herald newspaper has increased its cover price, by 10p to £1.20, but it is promising “improvements and expanded content” in return. The paper initially explains that the price increase is down to...
View ArticleRussell named as Media Scotland’s publishing director of local titles
THE former editor of The Herald, Jonathan Russell, has been named the publishing director of the local newspaper titles produced by Daily Record publisher, Media Scotland. Russell – whose departure...
View ArticleFuneral of former Herald picture editor scheduled for Wednesday
THE funeral of a former photographer and picture editor at The Herald newspaper is taking place on Wednesday. Says a Death Notice in the paper today, the funeral of Stuart Paterson is taking place at...
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