Newspaper industry news

The Ferret, an innovative investigative media project launched in Scotland last year, is collaborating with the University of Strathclyde to run its first ever conference on investigative journalism on Saturday April 23 in Glasgow.

The NUJ’s chapel at The Scotsman Publications is to ballot for strike action after Johnston Press announced it is seeking further redundancies across the titles. The publisher is to cut 12 of the 32 production staff that are already stretched producing the Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, the Edinburgh Evening News, a number of magazines and…

Breaking news from All Media Scotland: two editors are to step down at Newsquest’s Glasgow-based Herald and Times group. “Tony Carlin, editor of the Evening Times, and Richard Walker, editor of the Sunday Herald and The National, have decided to step down, although Richard will become consultant editor of The National.” More of this story here.…