A new free paper has been launched for the Edinburgh Festival. It will be edited by Glasgow Herald Student Journalist of the Year Helen Pidd, and Dan Lerner. The three times weekly arts and entertainment newspaper Fest will have a
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A successful bid for cash has resulted in Falmouth College of Arts attracting £1.6m of European Social Funding to establish a Creative Enterprises for Cornwall project.The project should encourage more applicants for postgraduate courses, including those in journalism, multimedia and
SMG steps up bid for Yorkshire radio licence
Scottish Media Group, publisher of the Glasgow Herald and Glasgow Evening Times, has appointed Beverley Webster to lead Y-Radio, which is competing to win the licence for a new radio station in Yorkshire. SMG, which owns Virgin Radio, faces competition
Herald writer named in "Hess" plot
A new book suggests a former aviation correspondent of the Glasgow Herald may have been murdered as he got close to finding out the truth behind Rudolph Hess’s doomed wartime flight to Britain. Double Standards highlights the role the Herald
Gruelling challenge for sick writer
Columnist Jonathan Wilson, who is terminally ill with cancer, has defied doctors to complete a walk of the West Highland Way for charity. Jonathan (30), who writes a column called Dead Man Writing in The Sunday Herald, aims to raise
Herald's new editor appointed
Mark Douglas Home, the new editor of the Glasgow Herald is being welcomed as a “real catch” by the company. He is currently editor of Sunday Times Scotland and will join current Herald editor Harry Reid for an extended hand-over
Appeal to keep artwork in Scotland
The Glasgow Herald is offering its readers a chance to help save an important part of the city’s heritage as it launches a campaign in partnership with the city council. The appeal aims to raise £300,000 to help a museum
Scanner appeal reaches target
A Glasgow Herald campaign to buy a hospital scanner has broken the £120,000 target. The newspaper has been backing the appeal to raise money toward the cost of an endoscopic scanner for use oesophageal cancer – cancer of the gullet.
Farewell to the Past
The great characters of yesteryear are remembered as The Herald bids a fond farewell to its famous Albion Street address writes ALLAN LAING Moving office can be a dangerous business, particularly for a newspaper. When The Herald first arrived at
The end of an era
Would the last one out please turn off the lights? The Glasgow Herald has made its move and staff are now happily tapping the keyboards in brand new offices. But they didn’t leave without raising a glass to a few
Strong showing for regionals in sports awards contest
Regional journalists and photographers are among those to make the shortlist for this year’s British Sports JournalismAwards, vying with colleagues from nationals and agencies. Journalists John Gibson from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, David Mullahey from the Liverpool Daily Post, James
Student award finalists chosen
The finalists in the Glasgow Herald’s Scottish Student Press Awards 2002, have been announced. The winners will be revealed during an awards lunch at the CCA in Glasgow on Tuesday, May 28. This year there was a record number of
Scottish Press Awards nominations are announced
The Glasgow Herald, Aberdeen Evening Express and the Press & Journal could be among the winners of the Scottish Press Awards later this year. A number of journalists from all three, as well as the Sunday Herald and Edinburgh Evening
Herald student press awards launched
This year’s Glasgow Herald Scottish Student Press Awards have been launched. Now in its sixth year, the competition is split into seven categories, all aimed at rewarding the best of student writing and publishing. The main award, for the Student
Picture awards nominations announced
Top photographers from around the regional press are to battle it out with agency snappers and staffers from the nationals for the Picture Editors’ Awards 2002. The winners will be decided by picture editors’ votes through the awards website. The
Design a plus for Herald
The Glasgow Herald has been honoured with three awards of excellence in the European Newspaper of the Year design awards for 2001. It faced competition from more than 180 newspapers from 22 countries. The Herald won awards for its front