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The Orcadian

  • Address: 50 Albert Street, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1HQ
  • Phone: 01856 878000
  • Website: www.orcadian.co.uk
  • Frequency: Weekly

What we have written about The Orcadian

February 20, 2008

Would-be hacks to benefit from new online knowledge base

Regional press man asks: “Do you want to beajournalist.co.uk?”

February 5, 2008

Lifetime achievement award presented to Scottish journalist

Plus: Newsquest’s 62m page impressions online, staff changes at New Nation and more news in brief

December 12, 2007

New health service role for editor

Former councillor gets back into public service after setting up media group

November 26, 2007

£1m print investment for island media group

Move will allow remaining titles to be brought in-house following company merger

June 25, 2007

Orkney journalist puts best foot forward for half marathon

Reporter will tackle hilly island course for charity close to his heart

June 25, 2007

Weekly titles in company merger

Papers will continue to be published independently and have their own editors and reporting staff

June 25, 2007

Island newspaper owners consider merger

Staff at two weekly titles are told that talks are taking place

June 25, 2007

Weekly beats the silly season with biggest ever paper

Summer may traditionally be a quiet time in newsrooms up and down the country – but not at The Orcadian, where staff have just produced…

June 25, 2007

Orkney title gets ready for launch

A new weekly paper for Orkney, giving the island a second weekly paper for the first time in 40 years, is ready to launch in…

June 25, 2007

Unidentified Headline 148

Keep your favourites rolling in, folks! Wayne Swiffin, of the Derby Evening Telegraph, was amused by this, on BBC’s Ceefax: Reward: £5,000 for shooting culprits…

June 25, 2007

Regional press complaints resolved

Resolved complaints dealt with by the PCC during Autumn 2001 The majority of complaints made to the Press Complaints Commission, which raise a possible breach…

June 25, 2007

New design to mark paper's 150th anniversary

The Orcadian, Orkney’s biggest selling weekly newspaper, is beginning 2004 with a bang. To mark the start of the paper’s 150th anniversary, a special January…



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