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.
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: Ian Marks spotted this sign in Cumbernauld where we hear the locals bump into each other a lot. THE wife of Outlander actor Steven Cree was on a Zoom call recently. “I had no idea,” explains Steven, “and walked by in the background, completely naked, fresh out of the shower.” Steven should look on the bright side. After all, most actors are desperately looking for that special role that truly reveals their – ahem – hidden talents. Shut-eye awry IT has been an unsettling time for the nation as we are deprived of those exotic pleasures of public transport, office work and window shopping.
Toys for Tots gives away more than 250K toys for Christmas in Burlington
Bob Saar
for The Hawk Eye
There s always a silver lining in the darkest cloud, and Saturday at Memorial Auditorium, hundreds of parents who have been financially hit by COVID-19 shutdowns and layoffs got to see one: Christmas toys for their children.
The local Toys for Tots group had the entire building available for their annual distribution another COVID benefit because normally, the auditorium is busy with holiday events.
Toys for Tots is a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve, distributing Christmas toys to children whose parents cannot afford gifts. The program was started in 1947 by Marine Corps Major Bill Hendricks after his wife, Diane, tried to donate a homemade Raggedy Ann doll to a needy child but couldn t find an organization to take it. Maj. Hendricks rounded up some Marine reservists and collected some 5,000 toys in bins placed outside Warner Bros. movie theaters.