allmediascotland: Subscriber Success for New News Website

"A local news website has picked up 3000 subscribers in just a matter of months - and is making revenue despite having no online display advertising. ... [Eastwoodmercury.co.uk] caters for the middle-class Glasgow suburbs of Newton Mearns, Clarkston and Giffnock and is the brainchild of Tom McConigley, editorial manager of Clyde and Forth Media."

allmediascotland: I’m Launching a New Newspaper

Stewart Kirkpatrick: "In the next few weeks, I will be launching a new Scottish newspaper. ... there is a substantial gap in the market. There is room - in fact, a desperate need - for an online, heavyweight publication committed to quality journalism. Scotland needs an intelligent title that uses the internet, not fights against it."

Sunday Times: It’s not all bad news for Scotland’s defiant papers

"Last month, the UK Government urged Scottish councils to go back to advertising jobs in local newspapers as well as on their own websites. Scotland Office ministers say local authorities may be excluding up to 40 per cent of the country by shifting the vast majority of their job adverts and public notices online, thereby breaching their duty to reach the whole population."

Independent: Democracy can’t exist without newspapers

Tim Luckhurst: "Devolved Scotland is a new and fragile polity in which debate takes place within a narrow consensus. Its electoral system privileges party over electorate and the ruling elite is self-selecting and jealous of its privileges. The country's broadcasters are ill equipped to fill the vacuum left by its failing newspapers."

Sunday Herald: Can Local Newspapers Win The Fight For Their Traditional Heartlands?

"But might the outcry over [BBC Trust chairman Michael] Lyons's words be the sound of a raw nerve being hit? There are certainly some journalists, working across the 14 groups that produce local papers in Scotland, who believe so. One experienced editor believes that local papers are very close to losing their traditional place at the heart of their communities. "