Culture Scotland

The Scotsman has a new editor - Ian Stewart, who has been acting editor since John McLellan was sacked in a recent top management shake-up by owners Johnston Press.

The timing is certainly apt; 'Enquirer', the new 'rapid-response verbatum work' being put on by the National Theatre of Scotland, is a much-needed opportunity to explore the stark choices facing the UK's newspaper industry at a time when it's under innately hostile public scrutiny and the financial rug of its traditional economic model is being pulled from under its feet.

The Bank of Scotland has taken control of one of Scotland’s largest independent newspaper groups after it ran into deep financial difficulty.
Dunfermline Press collapsed last week with debts of nearly £40 million, owed mainly to the bank.