The Courier’s newsroom transformation
The Courier is transforming its newsroom in an ambitious and radical restructure that will better serve our audience online.
Existing staff are currently being mapped into new roles, and the change requires the brands to hire new staff in key positions.
They include reporters across Live News, Sports and Crime & Courts, while there are also adverts for a Data Content Specialist, an Audio Producer, a Group Picture Editor and two social media roles.
The transformation has been in the planning for the last 18 months and was instrumental in attracting David Clegg – former political editor of the Daily Record – to take over as Editor of The Courier.
WHAT will you be doing this Burns Night? One thing’s for sure. You won’t be going to a community centre, village hall, church hall, friend’s front room or hotel function suite to attend an actual Burns Supper. Does that mean celebrations won’t happen at all in 2021 or could the whole clanjamfry jump online, introducing Scotland’s national poet to new generations, New Scots and folk previously scunnered with Burns Supper ritual – pleasingly familiar for some but off-puttingly formulaic for others? The pandemic will force Scots to decide. Is the Bard’s legacy meaningful enough to get us all on Zoom, holding virtual Burns Suppers across borders, counties and countries with dispersed meals of haggis, neeps and tatties?