2023 allmediascotlandmedia jobs, media release service and media resources for all. But if you think that Scots still treasure information, care about our community (at home and abroad), and value a shared national identity which has coped with political and financial earthquakes, maybe theres another approach. But give them a chance to engage with an uplifting story, to be inspired by an ordinary persons solution to a problem, and theyll both read and share it. That and it lets me filter out my blemishes to entirely mislead the world on Instagram. Always your Freitag": the Brian letters at McMaster University'; 'Havergal Brian's Letter to Herbert Thompson: some implications'; ', 'A Plaited Music: Ronald Stevenson at 70' in 'Meeting Ronald Stevenson', symposium in. Everybody thats in this room today who wants to work in radio is in a perfect position to be reaching the future radio audience They are the future radio audience as well. Macdonald had intended to revisit North Uist, where recently he traced his family roots in a journalistic exercise for The Herald, but was prevented by his brief but brutal illness, which was endured with stoic good humour and fortitude. One presenter once told me the day you dont get nervous is the day you should quit, because youve stopped caring enough about the programme. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. Phil Dunphy from Modern Family because I think were the same person. Calum Macdonald Presenter, Times Radio United Kingdom 994 followers 500+ connections Join to follow Times Radio The University of Edinburgh Personal Website Contact Calum for services Corporate. All start from a belief that much of the modern digital audience is regularly switched off by the mainstream media agenda of disaster, conflict, political knockabout, and celebrity clickbait. I cant believe someone designed this as an actual career. He and Christine ran their own company for a time, producing personalised crosswords. On the P&J, he and colleagues had a competition to see who could come up with the most obscure word in an introduction, a word the sub editors would have to leave in because there was no appropriate alternative. This byline is for a different person with the same name. In 1990, the confident young man of ability was encouraged to apply to The Herald by the papers then education correspondent, Barclay McBain (now executive editor), who had met him during a press trip to West Germany. Former Journalist at Newsquest 1990 - 2015 College Studied Psychology and English Literature at University of Aberdeen Class of 1983 High school Went to Aberdeen Grammar School Class of 1979 Photos See all photos Others Named Calum Macdonald Calum Macdonald Calum MacDonald Calum Macdonald Calum Macdonald See more Others With a Similar Name (We reckon Positively Scottish will be one of the first sites in the world to marry solutions journalism with a national/regional USP.). And on the News team, we were really ambitious, I mean we were doing programmes that rival professional media organisations. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. All the best things that have happened in my career have come entirely out of the blue. Hours after CCTV footage showed Watson setting fire to curtains at the Scottish Politician of the Year awards, he brusquely denied his culpability to Macdonald. Calum Macdonald Journalist; Born April 6 1976; Died October 2 2008. To book Calum Macdonald please contact your JLA Agent. Because of the lockdown-rule-busting affair he had last year. He was editor of the modern-music journal Tempo, which he joined in 1972 as assistant to the then editor David Drew, until December 2013, and was a copious contributor to other English-language music-journals and magazines. Hearing their stories, their views, their opinions and all about them is absolutely my thing. Calum was prominent among those long-serving journalists who provided continuity against a backdrop of organisational change, embodying The Heralds values of editorial independence, fairness in the reporting of news and a commitment to high standards. There he is affectionately remembered for his declarations of "you'll never guess what just happened", which rarely disappointed. I finish the programme at 6am. He met his future wife, fellow reporter Christine Jardine, in 1985, and they married in February 1987 at Glasgow University chapel. He is survived by his partner, Lloyd, parents Calum and Jackie, sisters Mhairi and Laura, and four nieces and a nephew. Whats the most interesting/challenging part of your job? Tricky, since its a new thing, and digital ads really dont work, especially in an age of adblockers. I certainly did. Im back in bed by 6:45am and asleep by 7:30am. Theres less demand in England so its been a quieter few years on the ceilidh front. I love speaking to people. 'Words and Music in Late Shostakovich' in C. Norris (ed). CALUM Macdonald is hoping to work for BBC radio after graduating from the University of Edinburgh next year. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. A publication run by Media Lab Bayern. Atishoo! Registered in England No 81701 Calum Macdonald was born and brought up in Aberdeen, attending Ashley Road Primary School and Aberdeen Grammar. Bed by 9:30pm, get ready to do it all again. I prep the programme. He championed young journalists both in his senior roles at the Herald & Times and, after leaving the group in 2015, with his new venture, the news website Positively Scottish. You need to go and meet people where theyre at, you cant expect them just to come tumbling across your radio station.. heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. Copyright 2023 JLA. Macdonald was unfazed by reputation. HP10 9TY. Recently, we were able to dish out hundreds of face masks to our most loyal members just doing our bit to maintain PPE supplies across the nation, and around the world in fact. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can Looking back on his time at university, Calum regards FreshAir as hugely important, describing it as just a good playground, to try stuff out. He made a group of lifelong friends during training and at his first job on the P&J, where he remained for seven years, during which time he was instrumental in helping re-establish the Grampian Press Ball and set up the Highland Press Ball. We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse. Within a fortnight of what was the highlight of his career as a journalist, Macdonald was beginning a two-year law degree at Glasgow University, his natural aptitude for journalism giving way to a latent desire to enter the legal profession. 37 talking about this. The two things that mattered most to Calum were Mhairi and protecting the future of quality journalism. It's not conclusive." Calum recounted: When I was about 11 or 12, I saw a radio news programme going out for the first time [] it blew me away, I thought this was just incredible, so cool. Nowadays, Calum is living his dream: Im currently a broadcast journalist with BBC Radio 5 Live, so primarily producing programmes, occasionally reporting on various bits and pieces, reading the news from time to time, and recording various interviews and podcasts. Digital native 50-something (deal with the oxymoron). He met his future wife, fellow reporter Christine Jardine, in 1985, and they married in February 1987 at Glasgow University chapel. Calum won, appropriately enough, with ineluctably. @CalumAM 9,898 followers, 20,432 tweets. Hang in there, folks. contact the editor here. Who would be your three Fantasy Dinner Party guests? Life path number 9 Within months he was full-time at the Stirling Observer and already attracting the attention of Scottish national titles after securing an exclusive interview with leading Ulster Loyalist Michael Stone after an encounter with him in a Glasgow hotel. Calum Macdonald Presenter, Times Radio. Readers comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. To know what they want, to know how to get that content to them, and then take that lesson into real life, [it is] a sort of industry experience.. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's The full weekend schedule announced yesterday includes, on Saturday mornings, Times columnist and critic Hugo Rifkind, winner of both 'Critic of the Year' and the 'Best of Humour Award' at the Press Awards. He was respected and admired by colleagues for his quick intelligence, decisiveness, cool head under pressure and capacity for sheer hard work. 66 talking about this. We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse. His involvement in amateur theatre continued at Aberdeen University, where he studied psychology, and English language and literature. They vote with their cursors and shun articles that leave them bored, unfulfilled or even depressed. Me, hopefully. Following year: presented a news programme, entered the student radio awards, and won. He's a journalist and broadcaster, and he's the best one I know. He contributed chapters to symposia on Brahms, Alan Bush, Erik Bergman, Shostakovich, Bernard Stevens, Ronald Stevenson, Varse, an essay on Czesaw Marek to a symposium on Swiss Composers, and another on Scottish composers to a symposium on musical nationalism in Great Britain and Finland. Macdonald proved the word had existed for centuries, then called upon an academic to comment, whereupon the Today presenter was described as a "blethering skite". Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. Their daughter, Mhairi, was born in 1996. From time to time we send out emails announcing new speakers, special offers and free tickets to our showcase events including Speakers Breakfasts and the JLA Real Variety Show. A solution in solutions journalism: its a well documented fact that the UK follows after many American trends think music, TV, food. Politics of Sound #21 Calum MacDonald, Presenter, Times Radio. It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse. He is currently in third year, studying politics. In 1990, the confident young man of ability was encouraged to apply to The Herald by the papers then education correspondent, Barclay McBain (now executive editor), who had met him during a press trip to West Germany. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He played cricket and football (he was goalkeeper in the school team), and did stage management in the drama club, an early sign of his talent for organising. May 7, 1956 - Calum MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician. Comments have been closed on this article. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. We are doing this to improve the experience forour loyalreaders and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. Calum loved being at the middle of a breaking story but not, like some reporters, at the scene of the action he preferred to be back in the office, coordinating the coverage, bringing to bear his considerable flair for logistics. What I put it down to is constantly going back for work experience, so although its kind of a bitter pill to swallow, taking a few days unpaid here and there where I could [] keeping in touch with those people. I'm not saying it's not me. My dad. Typical of Macdonald's ability to move seamlessly between the populist and high-brow, the encounter was later recounted in the pages of The Economist. Always be aware that while people like me might give you advice on how to get somewhere, theres loads of different routes, and so whats worked for me might not work for the next person, so just start knocking on doors and speaking to people and work out the best way for you., Your email address will not be published. We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse. Not forgotten, so much as disregarded. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. Then I do a bit of producing for the next mornings Early Breakfast programme reading, finding guests, getting organised. During the frenzy of election or referendum night, and during big breaking news stories, such as 9/11 or the invasion of Iraq, Calum was always to be found sitting at the newsdesk, the calm at the eye of the storm, relaxed but entirely in control, coordinating teams of writers and reporters; for them, Calum was a thoroughly dependable colleague who inspired confidence. In the November edition of the Politics of Sound, Iain Carnegie invites political journalist and presenter of the Early Morning Breakfast Show on Times Radio, Calum MacDonald to pay his own visit to the Politics of Sound virtual Record Shop to select his three all-time favourite albums. This reflected his fascination with the English language. Across the Atlantic, some of the most successful and prestigious publications have already embraced solutions or constructive journalism see Whats Working in HuffPo, Fixes in the New York Times, and Take Action in the Christian Science Monitor. He has the - almost - unique experience of being Health Secretary during a pandemic, and not many can claim that (other than Sajid Javid). You may request to have this data removed at any time. CALUM Macdonald, who has died aged 55, was a journalist and crosswords editor who spent most of his career at The Herald. You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . Somehow, you never quite believe people will actually want to be part of the programme, but there you've been, every day at 5am. He did this alongside tutoring student journalists at Strathclyde University. There he secured the support of Labour MP John McFall during school elections, the member for Dumbarton personally addressing Keil pupils on why they should "Vote Calum". We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. Throughout this working life, the journalist is part of a Scottish media that thrives. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can So living the dream is definitely up there as an answer to this. Born in Dumbarton in April, 1976, Calum was dux of Keil School before going to Aberdeen. But it is not the only way. Biography [ edit] MacDonald was born in Nairn, Scotland and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and Downing College, Cambridge. We are lucky at The Herald. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. In the two years leading up to the trial of multiple killer Angus Sinclair, he had secured interviews with the accused's wife and officers involved in the initial investigations into the murders in Edinburgh of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie 30 years ago, as well as exclusive pictures of Sinclair's first victim in the early 1960s. In 1996 he edited for performance, and orchestrated the final portions of, the ballet Soires de Barcelone by Roberto Gerhard, which was broadcast that year, performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, in a concert to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the BBC Third Programme. Calum Macdonald is a presenter and journalist on Times Radio. Spreading ideas, passions and new ways of thinking about media. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. What course are you studying? Outside of work, Calum Macdonald was a loyal friend and a very proud father. Whats the best thing about working on Times Radio? Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. We are lucky at The Herald. The one bit advice that really used to annoy me was to be myself, and I used to hate that. CALUM Macdonald, who has died aged 55, was a journalist and crosswords editor who spent most of his career at The Herald. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. I also pop up across the rest of the schedule if other people are taking holidays. They do it all the time on Facebook, on such online platforms with massive audiences as Upworthy and Humans of New York. Journalist and crosswords editor who spent 25 years at The Herald. View the profiles of professionals named "Calum Macdonald" on LinkedIn. Its like Avios, but better. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. He came from a line of journalists: his grandfather started a local paper in Buckie while his father, Alastair, was a sports writer at the Press & Journal, specialising in football. So no, nerves are good, [they] keep you on your toes. Student media thrives at Edinburgh, and he believes that his time here contributed to his success so far. Im writing this on Tuesday 13th July, and my new routine is that I then go to the gym. He was always clear in his opinions and priorities, and reporters appreciated his straight answers when offering story suggestions. Despite a newspaper round into his mid-teens, the legal profession, rather than journalism, appeared to be Macdonald's chosen path and he began a law degree at Aberdeen in 1994. Assuming I dont sleep through my alarm, I wake up at 3:10am. Starting as a reporter in Glasgow, he soon joined the newsdesk, moving on to be Night News Editor. Not instead of the main media players, who still cover hard news pretty well if a major story breaks, but as a daily option for people who want to read about how ordinary fellow citizens are dealing with change and adversity, and be inspired and enthused. I always have. Required fields are marked *. During the frenzy of election or referendum night, and during big breaking news stories, such as 9/11 or the invasion of Iraq, Calum was always to be found sitting at the newsdesk, the calm at the eye of the storm, relaxed but entirely in control, coordinating teams of writers and reporters; for them, Calum was a thoroughly dependable colleague who inspired confidence. The Early Breakfast Club is a loyalty scheme for our listeners. HTs to @joshstearns @molly daguilar and the team at the Geraldine Dodge Foundation in New Jersey and Jeff Jarvis @buzzmachine for some of the radical thoughts behind this project. Comments Off. That allows the site to be funded through its proof-of-concept phase, with a view to attracting external finance and eventually becoming self-sustaining. The journalist who had a 25-year career at The Herald before setting up his own news. For Calum, the pressure of live radio never wears off: The most recent time I [read the news] was exactly the same as the first time I did it. What career advice would you give your younger self? And, crucially, wholl pay for the project? contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. One time I presented four programmes in two days. That is different to being ambitious and enthusiastic. Tell us something not many people know about you? Lame, sorry, I know. Theatre and books were lasting passions, his favourite authors being John Irving, Iain Banks, William Boyd and Ian Rankin. Calum is a young, emerging broadcaster who's worked for BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 5 Live. I think in all areas of media work, its easy to get jealous of others and get frustrated. 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