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Quiet News Day Episode 92

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Holyrood PR director Scott Douglas and Deadline News editor Peter Laing return to chat through the latest news and views from the world of journalism, social media and public relations.

This week the duo discuss a wide range of topics including the ongoing riots in London and whether social media is to blame, the new pay hedge at the New York Times, the difficulty of getting Financial Times copy on a Kindle, an innovative Twitter-inspired photo site and the upcoming Social Media Buzz awards.   

As always links to everything discussed this week can be found in the show notes below.


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Quiet News Day Podcast 76

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Hello all!

Your usual hosts Scott Douglas and Peter Laing, seem to have caught the election bug this week as they invite Alastair Ross from McGrigors LLP and Jason Wassell from DLA Piper, to discuss how the election is shaped and influenced by traditional and social media. With sensational headlines from The Sun, newspaper motives and the impact of hyper local blogging social networking this week’s podcast has it all.

As usual you can find links to all the items discussed in the show notes below and leave us a comment on twitter


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Quiet News Day – podcast 53

3 Nov

Well, well, well.  Dropped in for a little listen have you?  Excellent.  QND is delighted to welcome you, whether as a returning listener, old faithful or perhaps you offer a brand new set of ears?

This week, hosts, Scott Douglas and Shaun Milne discuss Stephen Fry’s split from Twitter … again, the re-birth of AOL and they ponder if size really does matter when it comes to newspapers amoungst many other subjects from the worlds of, journalism, PR and social media.


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Quiet News Day – Episode 52

27 Oct

Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us ….. ok that’s enough but we did feel it necessary to acknowledge the fact that QND has been in existence for a full year.

Hosts, Shaun Milne and Scott Douglas arejoined by Mike Ritchie of Mike Ritchie PR for a bumper session of insightful and entertaining discussion.


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Quiet News Day – Episode 51

20 Oct


Join Scott Douglas and Shaun Milne in their weekly review of news.  The pair draw on their journalistic experience as well as their charm and wit to discuss, dispute and develop stories featured on multimedia platforms in the past week. The kind and generous souls that they are, then package this insightful analysis into their own multimedia bundle for you to download and enjoy.

If you like what you hear, or don’t, get in touch and throw us your ideas, stories or wisdom.

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Quiet News Day – Episode 50

13 Oct


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Quiet News Day – Episode 49

6 Oct


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Quiet News Day – Episode 48

29 Sep


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Quiet News Day – Episode 47

22 Sep


Quiet News Day – Episode 46

15 Sep


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