(We reckon Positively Scottish will be one of the first sites in the world to marry solutions journalism with a national/regional USP.). Calum Macdonald's Post. Variety is a good one as well actually [] Next weeks guest, how are they different to this weeks guest? contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. Its growth will be linked to funding received all new money will be re-invested in more stories. CALUM Macdonald, who has died aged 55, was a journalist and crosswords editor who spent most of his career at The Herald. 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. Theres less demand in England so its been a quieter few years on the ceilidh front. 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. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Calum, the eldest of three, had a flair for English at secondary school. In the words of Roy Thomson, owning an ITV franchise is a licence to print money and the newspaper barons also revel in circulations that total millions. Hello. He fostered in Mhairi a love of books, encouraging her by reading the first Harry Potter book to her. This article is about the British music critic and author. Calum has achieved a lot in the short time he has been in the professional world, but he started young. With the constant bombardment of reports on the bleak job prospects of our generation, a career in the world of journalism and broadcasting seems especially elusive. 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. Phil Dunphy from Modern Family because I think were the same person. Born in Dumbarton in April, 1976, Calum was dux of Keil School before going to Aberdeen. 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. Presenting news radio programmes has been my dream since I was 11 years old. heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. 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. 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. Journalist and crosswords editor who spent 25 years at The Herald. Occasionally on the newsdesk and later, his strong opinions led to confrontations with colleagues, but they typically blew over quickly. 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. Readers comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please Biography. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. 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. 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. 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. He has hosted events for News UK, including a live broadcast afternoon interviewing Piers Morgan and Sharon Osborne around the launch of TalkTV. 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. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. But how can you not treasure the thing that connects you with your closest family and friends so easily? 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. 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. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. 37 talking about this. What course are you studying? Whats the best piece of advice youve ever been given? 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. To book Calum Macdonald please contact your JLA Agent. Tell us something not many people know about you? Biography [ edit] MacDonald was born in Nairn, Scotland and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and Downing College, Cambridge. Readers comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. Not forgotten, so much as disregarded. 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. One time I presented four programmes in two days. 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. A Gannett Company. Somehow, you never quite believe people will actually want to be part of the programme, but there you've been, every day at 5am. VAT number GB 243 8054 69. While inside, the gangster - still clearly alive - dropped his trousers to show he had not been stabbed or shot. 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. Drop by, say hello in the comments and This byline is for a different person with the same name. His inquisitive, journalistic nature makes him a brilliant interviewer and host, keeping any audience engaged. Looking back on his time at university, Calum regards FreshAir as hugely important, describing it as just a good playground, to try stuff out. Editors' Code of Practice. His passing has been felt deeply across Scottish journalism. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. contact the editor here. Only 12 months after graduating, he landed himself a staff contract as a producer on Radio 5 Live. 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. You may request to have this data removed at any time. Tricky, since its a new thing, and digital ads really dont work, especially in an age of adblockers. Registered in England No 81701 We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. Calums mother Elizabeth (nee Mitchell), a graduate in maths and moral philosophy at Aberdeen University, was a school teacher before having a family. A slightly different piece in your inbox this morning. He did this alongside tutoring student journalists at Strathclyde University. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. 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. Journalist and crosswords editor who spent 25 years at The Herald. Mainly from the flyleaves of his books, and an autobiographical article, 'Too Many Records' in International Record Review (June 2002 edition). A solution in solutions journalism: its a well documented fact that the UK follows after many American trends think music, TV, food. 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. Bitterness? 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. How will we do something a bit different to make interviews come to life?. He was always clear in his opinions and priorities, and reporters appreciated his straight answers when offering story suggestions. Its awesome. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. 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. Born in Dumbarton, Macdonald attended Bonhill Primary and then secured a scholarship to Keil School in the town, becoming dux in 1992 and senior chief in 1993. What inspired you to choose this course ahead of all the others on offer? on Interview: Calum Macdonald explores where the future of radio lies, Bringing Autumn to you: Inspirational budget tips for that real Autumnal feel, Lemn Sissays Origin Stories: The poet discusses orphans in popular culture. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Malcolm MacDonald (also known by the alias "Calum MacDonald") (26 February 1948 - 27 May 2014) was a British author, mainly about music. Tell us about your Early Breakfast Club and how to get involved. 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. They read the next one together before Mhairi started reading them herself. He was a first class editor, with a particular knack for coming up with the perfect introduction. But actually, my lesson from that was I presented a music programme, entered the student radio awards: didnt win. Me, hopefully. Sorry, listeners. Life path number 2 December 12, 1812 - John Sandfield Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Ontario (d. 1872). And still lavish profits for the owners. Im back in bed by 6:45am and asleep by 7:30am. Prior to joining Times Radio, Calum was a producer, reporter and presenter at the BBC working on Radio 5 Live and at BBC Radio Scotland, where he presented a weekly political phone-in: Debate Night Extra. Calum MacDonald Profiles | Facebook People named Calum MacDonald Find your friends on Facebook Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. At Glasgow he attained the highest grades in a number of aspects of the law. Politics (MA Hons) at the University of Edinburgh. 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. All those emotions would be valid if you believe that Scotland has fundamentally changed, and no longer needs the written media it once consumed so voraciously. They do it all the time on Facebook, on such online platforms with massive audiences as Upworthy and Humans of New York. Calum Macdonald Verified Presenter, Early Breakfast, Times Radio London Arts and Entertainment, Sports, United Kingdom As seen in: Times Radio, BBC, The Times @timesradio Breakfast 6-10am, Fri-Sun | @whitehallsource podcast | Proudly Member # 1, Times Radio Early Breakfast Club (2020-22) /hello@calumam.com / Articles Search Calum Macdonald Presenter, Times Radio. His unsurpassed coverage of the trial's collapse provoked a fall-out between the Lord Advocate and senior members of the judiciary, and earned praise from the legal establishment. 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 look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. I certainly did. Its like Avios, but better. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. So no, nerves are good, [they] keep you on your toes. A crossword buff, not long after joining The Herald, he started setting them. 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. 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. Presented with images of the incident and informed he was being recorded, the former Labour peer answered: "I can't say that that's me. He did this alongside tutoring student journalists at Strathclyde University. 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.Calum emerges with an brilliant selection by Taylor Swift, Jason Isbell and Del Amitri and reveals how his fascination with broadcasting started very young, the case for a new political news radio station in the UK, his musical journey as an accordion player and his experience of playing the Cowardly Lion in a production of The Wizard of Oz!Calum's Early Breakfast Show can be heard Monday - Fridays on Times Radio from 5 - 6am.Follow Politics of Sound on Twitter: @politics_sound, Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware. He was respected and admired by colleagues for his quick intelligence, decisiveness, cool head under pressure and capacity for sheer hard work. His most recent venture, Positively Scottish, grew out of a desire to counter what he felt was a disappointing excess of negativity in Scottish news journalism. The one bit advice that really used to annoy me was to be myself, and I used to hate that. 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. Im very rusty now but when I was young I played at ceilidh dances most weekends around Inverness where I grew up. Outside of work, Calum Macdonald was a loyal friend and a very proud father. He was always clear in his opinions and priorities, and reporters appreciated his straight answers when offering story suggestions. Ironically, it sounds a bit like what helped power Scotlands media back in the day, six decades ago. 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. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please Taking on the problems and challenges in journalism. The most interesting is people. It should be free, for maximum access, and run as a not-for-profit, since good, useful journalism ought to be a social value, not just a commercial commodity. He was 55. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. 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. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. http://positivelyscottish.scot/ has been set up through seed funding from the Alastair Gordon Macdonald legacy. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. I get up exceptionally early (3:10am), present Early Breakfast to get you briefed on the mornings news, business and sport headlines. All the best things that have happened in my career have come entirely out of the blue. The Early Breakfast Club is The Times most exclusive members club. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. 'David Blake'; 'Postlude a note on Christopher Shaw' in Lewis Foreman (ed). I love speaking to people. The Cello Sonata and its Context' (, 'Statements and Connotations: Copland the Symphonist' (, This page was last edited on 19 May 2022, at 15:43. And, crucially, wholl pay for the project? Calum, whose father and grandfather were also both journalists, joined The Herald in 1990 from the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, as a news reporter and, as group news editor, was in charge of the newsdesk both 9/11 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Father and daughter would always go together at midnight the day the latest instalment was released, to buy their copy. Their daughter, Mhairi, was born in 1996. 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. He was a first class editor, with a particular knack for coming up with the perfect introduction. This is day two. 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. Readers comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. Then I do a bit of producing for the next mornings Early Breakfast programme reading, finding guests, getting organised. And still a pencil lover. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. Edit Now. 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. 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. 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