Looking back on his time at university, Calum regards FreshAir as hugely important, describing it as just a good playground, to try stuff out. 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. And why? View the profiles of professionals named "Calum Macdonald" on LinkedIn. So no, nerves are good, [they] keep you on your toes. 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. CALUM Macdonald is hoping to work for BBC radio after graduating from the University of Edinburgh next year. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. 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. For Calum, the pressure of live radio never wears off: The most recent time I [read the news] was exactly the same as the first time I did it. Calum has achieved a lot in the short time he has been in the professional world, but he started young. 'Words and Music in Late Shostakovich' in C. Norris (ed). 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. Malcolm MacDonald (also known by the alias "Calum MacDonald") (26 February 1948 - 27 May 2014) was a British author, mainly about music. Atishoo! Registered in England No 81701 It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. There are 100+ professionals named "Calum Macdonald", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. On one occasion, he was taken into the home of the now-deceased Glasgow gangland figure Tam McGraw, following reports McGraw had been assassinated. 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. 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. Wine, sure. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. Copyright 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Thanks Dad: back to the future for a positive Scottish media alternative. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. All rights reserved. Its like Avios, but better. 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. 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. Everyones online, theres no getting away from that, so thats where people need to go to. Somehow, you never quite believe people will actually want to be part of the programme, but there you've been, every day at 5am. 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. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can Nothing everything happens when you want it to and it never happens when you expect it to. Their daughter, Mhairi, was born in 1996. Required fields are marked *. contact the editor here. One time I slept in and missed Early Breakfast. I prep the programme. Contact Calum, search articles and Tweets, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place. 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. And still a pencil lover. 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. Calum covers the news on the Times Radio breakfast show. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Calum recounted: When I was about 11 or 12, I saw a radio news programme going out for the first time [] it blew me away, I thought this was just incredible, so cool. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. Introduction Our Mission Our Responsible Media Charter . He did this alongside tutoring student journalists at Strathclyde University. Life path number 6 November 17, 1765 - Jacques MacDonald, French general (d. 1840). 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 Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. Its a detailed piece of work, based on the type of interviewing and statistical analysis he later becomes renowned for in a career covering sport, mainly football, including four World Cups, and Aberdeen FC reigning supreme under Alex Ferguson. So it seems entirely proper that Positively Scottish launches thanks to a legacy created by part of my share of his will. He was always clear in his opinions and priorities, and reporters appreciated his straight answers when offering story suggestions. HP10 9TY. Starting as a reporter in Glasgow, he soon joined the newsdesk, moving on to be Night News Editor. Calum Macdonald's Post. Calum Macdonald was born and brought up in Aberdeen, attending Ashley Road Primary School and Aberdeen Grammar. Malcolm MacDonald (also known by the alias "Calum MacDonald") (26 February 1948 - 27 May 2014) was a British author, mainly about music. This ensured that both before and after the 2014 independence referendum, The Herald & Times online forum was a site of impassioned but meaningful debate. Spreading ideas, passions and new ways of thinking about media. Right from the start of first year, graduation never seems that far away. I wanted you to be the first to know about my new, free podcast called Whitehall Sources.I'm so grateful for your subscribing to get my written work here. 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. Im writing this on Tuesday 13th July, and my new routine is that I then go to the gym. 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. Only 12 months after graduating, he landed himself a staff contract as a producer on Radio 5 Live. 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? They vote with their cursors and shun articles that leave them bored, unfulfilled or even depressed. He joined the station from its launch and now presents the breakfast show, as well as programmes across the network. Terms & Conditions | Cookies | Contact Us. This is day two. 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. In just eight years, his charm and persistence combined to produce some of the best remembered stories in the Evening Times, Daily Record and The Herald since the turn of the decade. 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. I get up exceptionally early (3:10am), present Early Breakfast to get you briefed on the mornings news, business and sport headlines. You can text in live, or email anytime: earlybreakfastclub@times.radio youll get a membership number and thats you in the door. Theres less demand in England so its been a quieter few years on the ceilidh front. He and Christine ran their own company for a time, producing personalised crosswords. He met his future wife, fellow reporter Christine Jardine, in 1985, and they married in February 1987 at Glasgow University chapel. While it seems that younger people are engaging less and less in radio, using Spotify or other streaming services to listen to music, Calum thinks radio still has a fighting chance. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. But if you think that Scots still treasure information, care about our community (at home and abroad), and value a shared national identity which has coped with political and financial earthquakes, maybe theres another approach. 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. It's not conclusive." Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. MacDonald was born in Nairn, Scotland and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and Downing College, Cambridge. 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. Mainly from the flyleaves of his books, and an autobiographical article, 'Too Many Records' in International Record Review (June 2002 edition). Because of the lockdown-rule-busting affair he had last year. All the best things that have happened in my career have come entirely out of the blue. Their daughter, Mhairi, was born in 1996. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. Hes had more exclusives than Ive had school dinners. Its awesome. 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. contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. Father and daughter would always go together at midnight the day the latest instalment was released, to buy their copy. The Cello Sonata and its Context' (, 'Statements and Connotations: Copland the Symphonist' (, This page was last edited on 19 May 2022, at 15:43. 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. Copyright 2023 News Corp UK & Ireland Limited. Which is where the son, with a bit of help from his Dad, starts afresh. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's A basic mobile phone was deemed pointless by him, to his familys frustration. 1/gavin-williamson-whatsapp-message-teachers-work-pandemic/, A time to pause in honour of Queen of Scots. Yet Calum Macdonald has achieved the seemingly impossible. FreshAirs always done something which is really impressive and had a really varied schedule. News Corp UK & Ireland Limited, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please Macdonald's courteous tenacity disarmed many, most notably the former Scottish Executive minister Mike Watson in November 2004. Comments Off. 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. 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 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 a first class editor, with a particular knack for coming up with the perfect introduction. He has integrity, he's made history, and I firmly believe his journalism has changed the world . A Gannett Company. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . The most interesting is people. My phone. Calum Macdonald 1y Report this post 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. Its growth will be linked to funding received all new money will be re-invested in more stories. 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. They read the next one together before Mhairi started reading them herself. We are lucky at The Herald. Biography Calum Macdonald is a presenter and journalist on Times Radio. Hes a journalist and broadcaster, and hes the best one I know. heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. Sorry, listeners. 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. 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 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. Its beginning to feel a bit like Christmas, Thanks Boris, youve replaced Covid restrictions with crippling guilt. 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. Tell us about your Early Breakfast Club and how to get involved. I was being myself, I was doing what I loved and that made all the difference. 'Three Works by Erik Bergman' in J. Parsons (ed). The not-for-profit organisation's founding directors include Calum Macdonald, aged 54 and a half, a former digital editor of the . Me, hopefully. CALUM Macdonald, who has died aged 55, was a journalist and crosswords editor who spent most of his career at The Herald. Theres no other station that is set up primarily to target those students, and so its in a really good position to do that. Thats commitment. So does he think that student radio capitalises enough on its unique position to engage the student population? I think have patience, work hard, and itll happen when it happens. During the frenzy of election or referendum night, and during big breaking news stories, such as 9/11 or the invasion of Iraq, Calum was always to be found sitting at the newsdesk, the calm at the eye of the storm, relaxed but entirely in control, coordinating teams of writers and reporters; for them, Calum was a thoroughly dependable colleague who inspired confidence. heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. 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). 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. Im very rusty now but when I was young I played at ceilidh dances most weekends around Inverness where I grew up. 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. Theatre and books were lasting passions, his favourite authors being John Irving, Iain Banks, William Boyd and Ian Rankin. 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. Although he secured a scholarship with leading practice McGrigors, where he was told he was unlikely to surpass the ramifications of his World's End coverage in his legal career, he maintained a desire to work for the Crown. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories. 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. Calum Macdonald Presenter, Times Radio. He died at Leckhampton Hospice.[1]. 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. Starting as a reporter in Glasgow, he soon joined the newsdesk, moving on to be Night News Editor. Outside of work, Calum Macdonald was a loyal friend and a very proud father. Calum emerg He also regularly appears on TV and in print in The Times, and his home paper the Stornoway Gazette. You need to go and meet people where theyre at, you cant expect them just to come tumbling across your radio station.. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to Calums mother Elizabeth (nee Mitchell), a graduate in maths and moral philosophy at Aberdeen University, was a school teacher before having a family. 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. 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. Occasionally I live the showbiz dream and go for a boozy lunch top tip: pace yourself, enforce a strict cut off for drinking at 6pm, and then hit the water youre welcome. Calum won, appropriately enough, with ineluctably. He's covered programmes on Afghanistan, the death of the Duke of Edinburgh and has interviewed interesting people from all walks of life including cabinet ministers and senior politicians, spies, war reporters and protestors. Readers comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. Occasionally on the newsdesk and later, his strong opinions led to confrontations with colleagues, but they typically blew over quickly. How will we do something a bit different to make interviews come to life?. Father and daughter would always go together at midnight the day the latest instalment was released, to buy their copy. Scots, famously, consume more papers per capita than any other country in the world and the revenue swilling around the system means lavish staffing, with equally lavish salaries and expenses for employees. 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. Life path number 9 As Calum MacDonald he also reviewed regularly for BBC Music Magazine and International Record Review. 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". My dad. Whats the best piece of advice youve ever been given? Not forgotten, so much as disregarded. This website is published by Calum, the eldest of three, had a flair for English at secondary school. Variety is a good one as well actually [] Next weeks guest, how are they different to this weeks guest? Editors' Code of Practice. Whats the most interesting/challenging part of your job? Radios intimate, it just is. A solution in solutions journalism: its a well documented fact that the UK follows after many American trends think music, TV, food. Drop by, say hello in the comments and What course are you studying? Biography. 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. 37 talking about this. 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. Book Calum Macdonald +44 (0)20 7907 2800 agent@jla.co.uk Synopsis Calum covers the news on the Times Radio breakfast show. (We reckon Positively Scottish will be one of the first sites in the world to marry solutions journalism with a national/regional USP.). That is different to being ambitious and enthusiastic. 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. Having been on both sides of the conversation, Calum had plenty of advice for Edinburgh students looking to break into the world of radio. CALUM Macdonald, who has died aged 55, was a journalist and crosswords editor who spent most of his career at The Herald. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. His involvement in amateur theatre continued at Aberdeen University, where he studied psychology, and English language and literature. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. He has the - almost - unique experience of being Health Secretary during a pandemic, and not many can claim that (other than Sajid Javid). Flash forward: its 2016, and everything has changed. Wholl write the articles? contact the editor here. He was 55. 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. Then I do a bit of producing for the next mornings Early Breakfast programme reading, finding guests, getting organised. Im very open to that contract negotiation. Hang in there, folks. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. I think in all areas of media work, its easy to get jealous of others and get frustrated. I also pop up across the rest of the schedule if other people are taking holidays. He also compiled catalogues of the works of John Foulds, Shostakovich, Luigi Dallapiccola and Antal Dorti and contributed articles to many musical encyclopaedias such as the New Grove. Special guests and speakers had backgrounds in different areas of radio and broadcasting, from presenters to marketing executives, and the day aimed to give students a flavour of the industry. 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. 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. Malcolm MacDonald (also known by the alias "Calum MacDonald") (26 February 1948 27 May 2014) was a British author, mainly about music. Editors' Code of Practice. He has integrity, hes made history, and I firmly believe his journalism has changed the world locally where my family live, and throughout Scotland. And on the News team, we were really ambitious, I mean we were doing programmes that rival professional media organisations. Because youve kept in touch with these people, and demonstrated a bit of what you can do, then they can kind of point you in the right direction when opportunities are going to be coming up.. The Early Breakfast Club is a loyalty scheme for our listeners. While inside, the gangster - still clearly alive - dropped his trousers to show he had not been stabbed or shot. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. How to respond? About News UK. A publication run by Media Lab Bayern. 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