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. I get up exceptionally early (3:10am), present Early Breakfast to get you briefed on the mornings news, business and sport headlines. Starting as a reporter in Glasgow, he soon joined the newsdesk, moving on to be Night News Editor. Life path number 2 December 12, 1812 - John Sandfield Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Ontario (d. 1872). Not forgotten, so much as disregarded. The two things that mattered most to Calum were Mhairi and protecting the future of quality journalism. 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. Mainly from the flyleaves of his books, and an autobiographical article, 'Too Many Records' in International Record Review (June 2002 edition). He fostered in Mhairi a love of books, encouraging her by reading the first Harry Potter book to her. Calum is a young, emerging broadcaster who's worked for BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 5 Live. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. The couple separated latterly, but remained close. He was a first class editor, with a particular knack for coming up with the perfect introduction. From their very first ceilidh dance way back in 1973 to playing to a crowd of 50,000 fans over a wet weekend in Stirling a year ago, Calum MacDonald Chief Leader Writer and Columnist,The Observer, Can't find who you are looking for? 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. CALUM Macdonald, who has died aged 55, was a journalist and crosswords editor who spent most of his career at The Herald. 37 talking about this. As a reporter, Night News Editor, Digital Editor for the Herald & Times group and as Group News Editor the job he loved the most he was an intrinsic part of the newspaper for 25 years. You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . So, it can be anywhere. 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. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Calum Macdonald 1y Report this post As a reporter, Night News Editor, Digital Editor for the Herald & Times group and as Group News Editor the job he loved the most he was an intrinsic part of the newspaper for 25 years. 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. Life path number 9 And still lavish profits for the owners. Its the heyday of Scottish journalism, and the young sports writer is in his element. A publication run by Media Lab Bayern. So does he think that student radio capitalises enough on its unique position to engage the student population? All rights reserved. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. 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. Calum won, appropriately enough, with ineluctably. Previously at the BBC, he has interviewed everyone from cabinet ministers to spies and protestors. Presenter | Times Radio Breakfast, Friday-Sunday 6am Event host, writer, podcast host heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. 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. Hang in there, folks. 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. Calum, the eldest of three, had a flair for English at secondary school. The journalist who had a 25-year career at The Herald before setting up his own news. contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. Nothing everything happens when you want it to and it never happens when you expect it to. Politics (MA Hons) at the University of Edinburgh. Taking on the problems and challenges in journalism. Previously at the BBC, he has interviewed everyone from cabinet ministers to spies and protestors. Assuming I dont sleep through my alarm, I wake up at 3:10am. Only 12 months after graduating, he landed himself a staff contract as a producer on Radio 5 Live. He died at Leckhampton Hospice.[1]. One time I slept in and missed Early Breakfast. May 7, 1956 - Calum MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician. Life path number 6 November 17, 1765 - Jacques MacDonald, French general (d. 1840). Occasionally on the newsdesk and later, his strong opinions led to confrontations with colleagues, but they typically blew over quickly. 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.. Now able to focus on projects with fun people who're passionate about online. Bed by 9:30pm, get ready to do it all again. MacDonald was born in Nairn, Scotland and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and Downing College, Cambridge. How to respond? inaccuracy or intrusion, then please Stig Abell, because he hates organised fun. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can 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. Well, theres no shortage of talented journalists out there, including the hundreds of youngsters who complete university degree training every year and whose only viable career path seems now to lie in PR. Spreading ideas, passions and new ways of thinking about media. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. But it needs start-up funding: Even before the dementia kicked in, Dad was too old school to understand digital. 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. So well suited was he to the notoriously high pressure job of news editor that Calum did not find it at all stressful. As a reporter, Night News Editor, Digital Editor for the Herald &. Me, hopefully. The most interesting is people. What career advice would you give your younger self? The not-for-profit organisation's founding directors include Calum Macdonald, aged 54 and a half, a former digital editor of the . Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. 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. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. By Calum Macdonald May 12, 2015 Experience Co-founder PositivelyScottish.scot Jun 2016 - Present6 years 8 months Scotland Helping run a not-for-profit online magazine telling inspiring stories. My dad. Who would play you in the film of your life? Calum has achieved a lot in the short time he has been in the professional world, but he started young. The one bit advice that really used to annoy me was to be myself, and I used to hate that. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to To book Calum Macdonald please contact your JLA Agent. CALUM Macdonald is hoping to work for BBC radio after graduating from the University of Edinburgh next year. FORMER Stirling Observer reporter Calum Macdonald died from cancer last week at the age of just 32. He and Christine ran their own company for a time, producing personalised crosswords. Certainly, Ive been working hard for them and aiming at them but they always catch me by surprise. He began his journalism career in 1999 at the Lennox Herald, where then editor Bill Heaney gave him work experience. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Since the print business model is all but doomed, it has to be online only, which also means it can easily reach readers in all parts of Scotland, and the vast Scottish diaspora who still cherish news of their homeland. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. Presenter | Times Radio Breakfast, Friday-Sunday 6am Event host, writer, podcast host 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. The Early Breakfast Club is a loyalty scheme for our listeners. He was respected and admired by colleagues for his quick intelligence, decisiveness, cool head under pressure and capacity for sheer hard work. 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. He was respected and admired by colleagues for his quick intelligence, decisiveness, cool head under pressure and capacity for sheer hard work. Right from the start of first year, graduation never seems that far away. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. Retaining a grip on his exclusive story, the reporter duly advised the anxious members of the press pack outside that they could find out what happened by buying the next day's Record. Hearing their stories, their views, their opinions and all about them is absolutely my thing. The couple separated latterly, but remained close. He did this alongside tutoring student journalists at Strathclyde University. 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. As Calum MacDonald he also reviewed regularly for BBC Music Magazine and International Record Review. I was being myself, I was doing what I loved and that made all the difference. 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. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. contact the editor here. But within a year he had switched to literature, attaining an honours degree. 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.. Flash forward: its 2016, and everything has changed. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. But surely organisations with a social mission would welcome an editorial partnership with a website which can demonstrate a niche but growing readership, committed to positive values? In 2004, Macdonald instigated a Herald investigation into the prevalence of cash machines in deprived areas charging customers for usage, with the matter then raised in a Commons committee chaired by his old friend John McFall. Born in Dumbarton in April, 1976, Calum was dux of Keil School before going to Aberdeen. About News UK. After graduating in 1983, he was accepted onto the Thomson Regional Newspaper trainee scheme, at the end of which he was described as a confident young man of ability and good humour who would be an asset to any news team. 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. 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. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. He met his future wife, fellow reporter Christine Jardine, in 1985, and they married in February 1987 at Glasgow University chapel. For other people named Malcolm MacDonald, see, "Ronald Stevenson, composer-pianist: an exegetical critique from a pianistic perspective", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malcolm_MacDonald_(music_critic)&oldid=1088686774, People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. 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. As Group Digital Editor for four years, he brought strict standards of courtesy and fairness to the online forum, never shrinking from enforcing them but always taking the time to explain to users who had infringed the rules, why their behaviour was unacceptable. Calum Macdonald is a presenter and journalist on Times Radio. 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. Digital native 50-something (deal with the oxymoron). 1,157 likes. Matt Chorley brought me, gently, to justice. Tuning in at 5am every day is no mean feat and it deserves rewards. 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. 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. You need to go and meet people where theyre at, you cant expect them just to come tumbling across your radio station.. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. However, he would definitely have approved of something which offered real work opportunities to journalists, especially the younger generation wholl miss out on the sort of workplace training readily on offer to him (and his son). heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. Nowadays, Calum is living his dream: "I'm 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. 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. Merry Christmas! Calum Macdonald. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. Politics of Sound #21 Calum MacDonald, Presenter, Times Radio. Copyright 2023 JLA. Introduction Our Mission Our Responsible Media Charter . This ensured that both before and after the 2014 independence referendum, The Herald & Times online forum was a site of impassioned but meaningful debate. Occasionally on the newsdesk and later, his strong opinions led to confrontations with colleagues, but they typically blew over quickly. I always have. Student media thrives at Edinburgh, and he believes that his time here contributed to his success so far. More recently, his involvement in an investigation exposing the immigration scams behind bogus colleges helped force a tightening of legislation by Westminster. The very last book came out during a family holiday in Portmahomack; on that occasion, Calum and Mhairi drove to a small bookshop in Tain to collect it. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to 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. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. His involvement in amateur theatre continued at Aberdeen University, where he studied psychology, and English language and literature. heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. 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. Journalist; Born April 6 1976; Died October 2 2008. I am LIVE on the radio from my actual HOME in the Western Isles this morning 7am-10am on Times Radio! 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 Starting as a reporter in Glasgow, he soon joined the newsdesk, moving on to be Night News Editor. 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. Because of the lockdown-rule-busting affair he had last year. 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. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's The sports writer has died (at the good age of 85) and the son finds himself like so many others too old/expensive for a legacy print industry which is in spiralling decline, collectively bemused by the digital revolution. Tricky, since its a new thing, and digital ads really dont work, especially in an age of adblockers. 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