Yet Calum Macdonald has achieved the seemingly impossible. FreshAir does it well anyway, but can continue to improve its presence on Facebook and Twitter putting content out specifically for these platforms, so that people can come to it. Other books include a tourist guidebook to the city of Edinburgh and a multi-volume edition of the musical journalism of Havergal Brian. I always have. Then I do a bit of producing for the next mornings Early Breakfast programme reading, finding guests, getting organised. There are 100+ professionals named "Calum Macdonald", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. He is survived by Christine, the Liberal Democrat general election candidate in Edinburgh West, Mhairi, a politics student at the university of Edinburgh, and his twin sisters, Morag and Shona. 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. Calum Macdonald is a presenter and journalist on Times Radio. Previously at the BBC, he has interviewed everyone from cabinet ministers to spies and protestors. 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. Calums mother Elizabeth (nee Mitchell), a graduate in maths and moral philosophy at Aberdeen University, was a school teacher before having a family. 37 talking about this. Calum recently worked on an exclusive with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), highlighting the unhealthiness of many relationships between YouTubers and their adoring fans. The not-for-profit organisations founding directors include Calum Macdonald, aged 54 and a half, a former digital editor of the Herald & Times Group in Glasgow. Lame, sorry, I know. Calum Macdonald @CalumAM @timesradio Breakfast 6-10am, Fri-Sun | @whitehallsource podcast | Proudly Member # 1, Times Radio Early Breakfast Club (2020-22) /hello@calumam.com / Media Personality London instagram.com/CalumAM Born June 19, 1993 Joined July 2011 1,619 Following 9,108 Followers Tweets Tweets & replies Media Pinned Tweet Calum Macdonald Comments Off. Its beginning to feel a bit like Christmas, Thanks Boris, youve replaced Covid restrictions with crippling guilt. Titles are closing, remaining circulations are collapsing by around 10% every year, staff numbers are being slashed, and the only responses are widespread rationalisation, centralisation, and so-called synergies which logically can prolong the industry for only a finite time before it disappears into oblivion. Editors' Code of Practice. So living the dream is definitely up there as an answer to this. Whats the most interesting/challenging part of your job? Hearing their stories, their views, their opinions and all about them is absolutely my thing. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Then theres the possibility of philanthropic or grant aid for robust journalism with a community benefit, not to mention individual supporters who can afford to help maintain something that brings daily positivity. Copyright 2023 JLA. Theatre and books were lasting passions, his favourite authors being John Irving, Iain Banks, William Boyd and Ian Rankin. Resignation? Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . The task came easily to him and he became a regular compiler and then crosswords editor for The Herald, Sunday Herald and The National, as well as editing two books of crosswords; he continued editing crosswords on a freelance basis after leaving the paper. Flashback: its 60 years ago, and a keen young journalist, whos getting used to the big city ways of Aberdeen after moving from Buckie, a small port on the north-east of Scotland, wins a national prize for a thesis on the UK fishing industry, submitted as part of his training. Biography. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. He was respected and admired by colleagues for his quick intelligence, decisiveness, cool head under pressure and capacity for sheer hard work. So, the more you listen and text or email in, the more loyalty points you stack up (I have a spreadsheet). On one occasion, he was taken into the home of the now-deceased Glasgow gangland figure Tam McGraw, following reports McGraw had been assassinated. News Corp UK & Ireland Limited, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 66 talking about this. Calum, the eldest of three, had a flair for English at secondary school. Throughout this working life, the journalist is part of a Scottish media that thrives. Im writing this on Tuesday 13th July, and my new routine is that I then go to the gym. 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. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. The not-for-profit website sets out to tell positive stories and Calum was proud to employ many young freelance journalists fresh out of training. MALCOLM "Calum" Macdonald, who has died of cancer aged 32, was a journalist of immense esteem, integrity and ability whose brief career spanned some of Scotland's leading newspaper titles. CALUM Macdonald, who has died aged 55, was a journalist and crosswords editor who spent most of his career at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories. As a reporter, Night News Editor, Digital Editor for the Herald &. Please list all speakers/performers in whom you are interested, plus budget, venue and event dates. 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. John Humphrys was once pursued after the formidable BBC broadcaster, in a book, listed the old Scots preposition "outwith'' as one of his pet hates, and a trendy new coinage. contact the editor here. Menu. It was awesome.. View the profiles of professionals named "Calum Macdonald" on LinkedIn. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. He died at Leckhampton Hospice.[1]. What inspired you to choose this course ahead of all the others on offer? 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. Only 12 months after graduating, he landed himself a staff contract as a producer on Radio 5 Live. I think it can be a subconscious Im listening and doing other stuff; I think with things like YouTube you need to actively sit and concentrate Good luck watching a YouTube video not falling off your bike. 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. This reflected his fascination with the English language. contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. Itll start small, as an online magazine with a guarantee of at least one new story six days a week. Malcolm MacDonald (also known by the alias "Calum MacDonald") (26 February 1948 27 May 2014) was a British author, mainly about music. Calum Macdonald 1y Report this post We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. 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. Theatre and books were lasting passions, his favourite authors being John Irving, Iain Banks, William Boyd and Ian Rankin. Its that kind of ambition to progress, and I think that somewhere like the BBCs really good at opportunities like that as well., When posed with the question of whether radio is in decline, Calum offered a valid counter argument: I think radio is changing, were certainly very aware of that at 5 Live, that now its not just about what youre doing on the radio, its about how youre creating an impact with it, what are you doing online to either match or enhance your onair stuff, so online is a really great way of reaching new people.. He has the - almost - unique experience of being Health Secretary during a pandemic, and not many can claim that (other than Sajid Javid). They vote with their cursors and shun articles that leave them bored, unfulfilled or even depressed. 'Three Works by Erik Bergman' in J. Parsons (ed). All the best things that have happened in my career have come entirely out of the blue. You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . Radios intimate, it just is. At his trial, Watson's defence claimed the incident might never have reached court had the images not been published following the tussle with Macdonald. His involvement in amateur theatre continued at Aberdeen University, where he studied psychology, and English language and literature. Following year: presented a news programme, entered the student radio awards, and won. Spreading ideas, passions and new ways of thinking about media. Find out information on anyone featured within BuzzSumo's Media Database of over 500K journalists. Chatting to him afterwards, we got to the bottom of where his love for radio began. So does he think that student radio capitalises enough on its unique position to engage the student population? Calum Macdonald Presenter, Times Radio. He fostered in Mhairi a love of books, encouraging her by reading the first Harry Potter book to her. From speaking to him, it seems that persisting with work experience, however discouraging, is one of the best ways to make the first steps into the industry. A basic mobile phone was deemed pointless by him, to his familys frustration. VAT number GB 243 8054 69. He was respected and admired by colleagues for his quick intelligence, decisiveness, cool head under pressure and capacity for sheer hard work. Journalist and crosswords editor who spent 25 years at The Herald. At Glasgow he attained the highest grades in a number of aspects of the law. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. 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. Your email address will not be published. The couple separated latterly, but remained close. MacDonald was born in Nairn, Scotland and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and Downing College, Cambridge. 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. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. For these and other journalistic purposes he used the nom-de-plume Calum MacDonald because at the outset of his writing career, which began with record reviewing for the journal Records & Recording, confusion arose between him and the composer Malcolm MacDonald, who was a long-established record reviewer for The Gramophone. Assuming I dont sleep through my alarm, I wake up at 3:10am. Bitterness? He also found a home for his pedantry by becoming a part-time sub-editor with both The Herald and Sunday Herald, where he would quietly confess to re-evaluating colleagues' work. 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. 'David Blake'; 'Postlude a note on Christopher Shaw' in Lewis Foreman (ed). I am LIVE on the radio from my actual HOME in the Western Isles this morning 7am-10am on Times Radio! In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. So well suited was he to the notoriously high pressure job of news editor that Calum did not find it at all stressful. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. I cant believe someone designed this as an actual career. The culmination of his natural inquisitiveness, forensic attention to detail and fascination with the human angle was his coverage of the World's End murder trial. FORMER Stirling Observer reporter Calum Macdonald died from cancer last week at the age of just 32. I also think it cant be overstated how fun it is to get to sit and chat about the news with well informed, analytical, insightful guests. A publication run by Media Lab Bayern. Its growth will be linked to funding received all new money will be re-invested in more stories. His passing has been felt deeply across Scottish journalism. In the 1970s, he takes his son to many football matches, where the teenager is sent to run and phone copy from remote landlines to head office, and the vocation is handed down another generation. Born in Dumbarton in April, 1976, Calum was dux of Keil School before going to Aberdeen. HP10 9TY. As Calum MacDonald he also reviewed regularly for BBC Music Magazine and International Record Review. 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. Presenter | Times Radio Breakfast, Friday-Sunday 6am Event host, writer, podcast host Starting as a reporter in Glasgow, he soon joined the newsdesk, moving on to be Night News Editor. Flash forward: its 2016, and everything has changed. 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