Calum Macdonald is a presenter and journalist on Times Radio. Occasionally on the newsdesk and later, his strong opinions led to confrontations with colleagues, but they typically blew over quickly. Runrig founding member Calum MacDonald believes the band could reform in the future - if the occasion is right. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. Whats the most interesting/challenging part of your job? This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. The Cello Sonata and its Context' (, 'Statements and Connotations: Copland the Symphonist' (, This page was last edited on 19 May 2022, at 15:43. 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. We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories. 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. One presenter once told me the day you dont get nervous is the day you should quit, because youve stopped caring enough about the programme. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories. 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. The not-for-profit organisation's founding directors include Calum Macdonald, aged 54 and a half, a former digital editor of the . Previously at the BBC, he has interviewed everyone from cabinet ministers to spies and protestors. 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. Please list all speakers/performers in whom you are interested, plus budget, venue and event dates. Menu. This article is about the British music critic and author. He fostered in Mhairi a love of books, encouraging her by reading the first Harry Potter book to her. MacDonald was born in Nairn, Scotland and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and Downing College, Cambridge. 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. 'Words and Music in Late Shostakovich' in C. Norris (ed). He died at Leckhampton Hospice.[1]. Please tick this box if you would like to receive these emails. 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. Chatting to him afterwards, we got to the bottom of where his love for radio began. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. 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. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. A crossword buff, not long after joining The Herald, he started setting them. "I took a simple little theme and developed it": Shostakovich's string concertos and sonatas' in Pauline Fairclough and David Fanning (eds), 'Sense and Sound: Gerhard's Fourth Symphony' (, 'Visionary and Craftsman: Scriabin and Enescu' (, 'Visionary Ecstasy: Szymanowski's Third Symphony' (, 'Unreconciled Spirit: Franz Liszt 100 Years On' (, 'Sombre Tragedy: Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Symphonies' (, 'John Foulds (18801939). These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. Calum, the eldest of three, had a flair for English at secondary school. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. 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. You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . I was being myself, I was doing what I loved and that made all the difference. They do it all the time on Facebook, on such online platforms with massive audiences as Upworthy and Humans of New York. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. Thats commitment. More recently, his involvement in an investigation exposing the immigration scams behind bogus colleges helped force a tightening of legislation by Westminster. He's a journalist and broadcaster, and he's the best one I know. So does he think that student radio capitalises enough on its unique position to engage the student population? 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. 'Three Works by Erik Bergman' in J. Parsons (ed). As Group Digital Editor for four years, he brought strict standards of courtesy and fairness to the online forum, never shrinking from enforcing them but always taking the time to explain to users who had infringed the rules, why their behaviour was unacceptable. It's not conclusive." You may request to have this data removed at any time. 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. Calum was prominent among those long-serving journalists who provided continuity against a backdrop of organisational change, embodying The Heralds values of editorial independence, fairness in the reporting of news and a commitment to high standards. Presenter | Times Radio Breakfast, Friday-Sunday 6am Event host, writer, podcast host I finish the programme at 6am. Calum recently worked on an exclusive with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), highlighting the unhealthiness of many relationships between YouTubers and their adoring fans. Please come and join Chloe and I for Times Radio Breakfast on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (6am-10am) from 27th May. 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. Wholl write the articles? contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. He and Christine ran their own company for a time, producing personalised crosswords. Biography [ edit] MacDonald was born in Nairn, Scotland and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and Downing College, Cambridge. 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. You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . While inside, the gangster - still clearly alive - dropped his trousers to show he had not been stabbed or shot. 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. 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. I restart the day at about 10:30am. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. (We reckon Positively Scottish will be one of the first sites in the world to marry solutions journalism with a national/regional USP.). HP10 9TY. Then theres the possibility of philanthropic or grant aid for robust journalism with a community benefit, not to mention individual supporters who can afford to help maintain something that brings daily positivity. By Calum Macdonald May 12, 2015 Experience Co-founder PositivelyScottish.scot Jun 2016 - Present6 years 8 months Scotland Helping run a not-for-profit online magazine telling inspiring stories. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. Im back in bed by 6:45am and asleep by 7:30am. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Lame, sorry, I know. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. As a reporter, Night News Editor, Digital Editor for the Herald &. 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. Who would play you in the film of your life? Outside of work, Calum Macdonald was a loyal friend and a very proud father. Having been on both sides of the conversation, Calum had plenty of advice for Edinburgh students looking to break into the world of radio. 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. http://positivelyscottish.scot/ has been set up through seed funding from the Alastair Gordon Macdonald legacy. Assuming I dont sleep through my alarm, I wake up at 3:10am. Readers comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. 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. Not instead of the main media players, who still cover hard news pretty well if a major story breaks, but as a daily option for people who want to read about how ordinary fellow citizens are dealing with change and adversity, and be inspired and enthused. 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. Tricky, since its a new thing, and digital ads really dont work, especially in an age of adblockers. I get into work at 4am. Hang in there, folks. All the best things that have happened in my career have come entirely out of the blue. Hes old school with a modern twist, and I think thats inspiring. Flashback: its 60 years ago, and a keen young journalist, whos getting used to the big city ways of Aberdeen after moving from Buckie, a small port on the north-east of Scotland, wins a national prize for a thesis on the UK fishing industry, submitted as part of his training. News UK & Ireland Ltd1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GFUnited Kingdom. 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. Book Calum Macdonald +44 (0)20 7907 2800 agent@jla.co.uk Synopsis Calum covers the news on the Times Radio breakfast show. Presenting news radio programmes has been my dream since I was 11 years old. 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. 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 Listen to the audio pronunciation of Calum MacDonald (journalist) on pronouncekiwi Registered in England No 81701 Readers comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. He has integrity, he's made history, and I firmly believe his journalism has changed the world . As Group Digital Editor for four years, he brought strict standards of courtesy and fairness to the online forum, never shrinking from enforcing them but always taking the time to explain to users who had infringed the rules, why their behaviour was unacceptable. His passing has been felt deeply across Scottish journalism. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. He began his journalism career in 1999 at the Lennox Herald, where then editor Bill Heaney gave him work experience. Journalist and crosswords editor who spent 25 years at The Herald. Right from the start of first year, graduation never seems that far away. 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. Nothing everything happens when you want it to and it never happens when you expect it to. His inquisitive, journalistic nature makes him a brilliant interviewer and host, keeping any audience engaged. This reflected his fascination with the English language. 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. 'The Orchestral Music' in Colin Scott-Sutherland (ed). ' His involvement in amateur theatre continued at Aberdeen University, where he studied psychology, and English language and literature. Me, hopefully. 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 met his future wife, fellow reporter Christine Jardine, in 1985, and they married in February 1987 at Glasgow University chapel. Theres less demand in England so its been a quieter few years on the ceilidh front. The Early Breakfast Club is a loyalty scheme for our listeners. 66 talking about this. 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. Malcolm MacDonald (also known by the alias "Calum MacDonald") (26 February 1948 27 May 2014) was a British author, mainly about music. I also think it cant be overstated how fun it is to get to sit and chat about the news with well informed, analytical, insightful guests. 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. You can text in live, or email anytime: earlybreakfastclub@times.radio youll get a membership number and thats you in the door. But getting up at 5am? Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. Yet Calum Macdonald has achieved the seemingly impossible. Comments Off. He did this alongside tutoring student journalists at Strathclyde University. He has hosted events for News UK, including a live broadcast afternoon interviewing Piers Morgan and Sharon Osborne around the launch of TalkTV. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can Bitterness? 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. Flash forward: its 2016, and everything has changed. 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. Whether thats MPs, or people with lived experience, or Aasmah and Stig during the handover at 5:55am, speaking to people is my thing. 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. So, the more you listen and text or email in, the more loyalty points you stack up (I have a spreadsheet). This ensured that both before and after the 2014 independence referendum, The Herald & Times online forum was a site of impassioned but meaningful debate. Across the Atlantic, some of the most successful and prestigious publications have already embraced solutions or constructive journalism see Whats Working in HuffPo, Fixes in the New York Times, and Take Action in the Christian Science Monitor. Calum emerg 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. The couple separated latterly, but remained close. The two things that mattered most to Calum were Mhairi and protecting the future of quality journalism. 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. Hes a journalist and broadcaster, and hes the best one I know. 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. Introduction Our Mission Our Responsible Media Charter . 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. In 2001, Macdonald joined the Evening Times in Glasgow but after just nine months he was poached by the Daily Record. See something missing? VAT number GB 243 8054 69. 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. Typical of Macdonald's ability to move seamlessly between the populist and high-brow, the encounter was later recounted in the pages of The Economist. 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If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. I think Radio 1s doing this really well, its really advanced its performance online. CALUM Macdonald, who has died aged 55, was a journalist and crosswords editor who spent most of his career at The Herald. My dad. Only 12 months after graduating, he landed himself a staff contract as a producer on Radio 5 Live. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's What career advice would you give your younger self? All rights reserved. Nostalgic memories? And, crucially, wholl pay for the project? You need to go and meet people where theyre at, you cant expect them just to come tumbling across your radio station.. What inspired you to choose this course ahead of all the others on offer? heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. Its that kind of ambition to progress, and I think that somewhere like the BBCs really good at opportunities like that as well., When posed with the question of whether radio is in decline, Calum offered a valid counter argument: I think radio is changing, were certainly very aware of that at 5 Live, that now its not just about what youre doing on the radio, its about how youre creating an impact with it, what are you doing online to either match or enhance your onair stuff, so online is a really great way of reaching new people.. That allows the site to be funded through its proof-of-concept phase, with a view to attracting external finance and eventually becoming self-sustaining. 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. Hello. 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. Calum loved being at the middle of a breaking story but not, like some reporters, at the scene of the action he preferred to be back in the office, coordinating the coverage, bringing to bear his considerable flair for logistics. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. About News UK. This byline is for a different person with the same name. Calum Macdonald's Post. Biography Calum Macdonald is a presenter and journalist on Times Radio. 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. 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. CALUM Macdonald, Crosswords Editor and former Group Digital Editor of The Herald has died. I am LIVE on the radio from my actual HOME in the Western Isles this morning 7am-10am on Times Radio! Starting as a reporter in Glasgow, he soon joined the newsdesk, moving on to be Night News Editor. Drop by, say hello in the comments and The culmination of his natural inquisitiveness, forensic attention to detail and fascination with the human angle was his coverage of the World's End murder trial. Macdonald's courteous tenacity disarmed many, most notably the former Scottish Executive minister Mike Watson in November 2004. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can Other books include a tourist guidebook to the city of Edinburgh and a multi-volume edition of the musical journalism of Havergal Brian. 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. I get up exceptionally early (3:10am), present Early Breakfast to get you briefed on the mornings news, business and sport headlines. 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. Macdonald was unfazed by reputation. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. I cant believe someone designed this as an actual career. 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. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. A Gannett Company. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Calum was prominent among those long-serving journalists who provided continuity against a backdrop of organisational change, embodying The Heralds values of editorial independence, fairness in the reporting of news and a commitment to high standards. Log In or Sign Up Calum MacDonald See Photos Calum MacDonald See Photos Calum MacDonald See Photos Calum MacDonald See Photos Calum Macdonald See Photos Calum Macdonald Copyright 2023 JLA. Malcolm MacDonald (also known by the alias "Calum MacDonald") (26 February 1948 - 27 May 2014) was a British author, mainly about music. 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. 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. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. That was a sickening morning. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. 1,157 likes. News Corp UK & Ireland Limited, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 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. A basic mobile phone was deemed pointless by him, to his familys frustration. 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. Everybody thats in this room today who wants to work in radio is in a perfect position to be reaching the future radio audience They are the future radio audience as well. Calum won, appropriately enough, with ineluctably. What I put it down to is constantly going back for work experience, so although its kind of a bitter pill to swallow, taking a few days unpaid here and there where I could [] keeping in touch with those people. heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. 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. It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse. 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. How to respond? 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. Theres no other station that is set up primarily to target those students, and so its in a really good position to do that. It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse. What course are you studying? Born in Dumbarton in April, 1976, Calum was dux of Keil School before going to Aberdeen. Find out information on anyone featured within BuzzSumo's Media Database of over 500K journalists. 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. Somehow, you never quite believe people will actually want to be part of the programme, but there you've been, every day at 5am. Presenter | Times Radio Breakfast, Friday-Sunday 6am Event host, writer, podcast host CALUM Macdonald, who has died aged 55, was a journalist and crosswords editor who spent most of his career at The Herald. I think as well, enjoying it, if it feels like a total task and youre just having to drag yourself through your programme every week, if thats not enjoyable then sack it and do something that you actually want to do. 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. 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