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Christopher Silver

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Media, Scottish Politics Posted on21st August 20161st July 2017

Journalism or churnalism? Daisley affair symbolises Scottish media decline

Journalists are people too. When I first encountered the trade at the tender of age of 17, such a remark would probably be followed by […] Read More

Culture, Media, Scottish Politics Posted on6th August 20161st July 2017

Scottish Six: What does it all mean for Scotland to have its own BBC ‘national’ news?

When the debate about the Scottish Six first kicked off in 1997 I was still at primary school. Remarkably it’s taken 18 years for us to get […] Read More

Culture, Media, Scottish Politics Posted on22nd June 201527th June 2017

Podcast: The Case for a Scottish Media

In this podcast to accompany The Case for a Scottish Media (out September 2015) Christopher Silver explores the key issues that Scotland will have to […] Read More

Media, Scottish Politics Posted on15th March 201527th June 2017

Broadcasting and the Union: Why we Need a Scottish Media

In modern Scotland, you’ll struggle to find a politician from any party who won’t concede two crucial points: that Scotland is a nation and that […] Read More

Media Posted on13th February 201527th June 2017

Why we need to address Scotland’s media deficit

Scotland’s media is in crisis. This crisis is taking place on a number of levels and the symptoms are manifold. They include systemic declines in […] Read More

Culture, Indyref, Media Posted on7th October 20131st July 2017

Nothing interesting here: changing Scotland’s media desert

Scotland is bristling with a will to experiment. It’s shrugging off an older, staler incarnation of itself and tentatively seeking out new possibilities. This process […] Read More

Culture, Indyref, Media Posted on13th July 20131st July 2017

Creating a space for independence

Sometimes it is easy to forget just how remarkable the recent journey to a vote on independence in 2014 has been. To both the envy […] Read More

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